“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 25
On the Twenty-Fifth Day After Christmas (or is it the first Day of Martin Luther King Jr. Day?), Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) an Elevator Desktop Stand for Personal Computers from Griffin!
I love this thing. Not only does it look cool and help show off your laptop, it actually serves a couple legitimate purposes as well. The Elevator lifts your laptop off your desk, allowing you to reclaim valuable desktop space, while at the same time raising the screen to a more comfortable, ergonomically friendly viewing height. And, by “elevating” your laptop, you also allow for a 360Ëš airflow which will help keep your computer running cooler (and as any MacBook owner knows, Macs may look cool, but they don’t run cool). Elevator’s sturdy brushed aluminum and minimal design go great with any desk decor, and Elevator holds your portable computer safely and securely at just the right height to match external monitors – and to save your aching neck.
To enter: Speaking of neck strain, this morning I took a comically bad face plant while sledding and really hurt my neck (sorry, no video, but it basically looked like this). So to enter this contest, simply leave us a comment telling us what is the worst injury you have ever sustained? Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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I lost a Kidney… tell me if you that is bad or not
Slipped on some ice and broke my arm.
Broken tailbone. To this day I cannot sit for more than an hour and a half.
i broke my leg (femur) in two places on the kickoff return in a football game.
Broke my left leg just above my ankle and it spiral fractured around and up to my knee.
I fell off my bike and scraped up both my legs in one summer. So, pretty much, I’ve been very lucky. 🙂
I got cut from a paper 😀
I broke my arm jumping of a tall playground thingy pretending to be Steve Austin, the six million dollar man, or you can have the time I broke my collar bone when a car slammed into me as I was riding my pushbike home from school.
I was running across a wood floor and a 5 inch screw went straight into the ball of my foot. When I walked around the rest of the day, it would make a tap tap tap noise. It was disgusting and painful.
Australian Cattle hound bit me and took a chunk of my lower lip with him
I had a bicycle accident when I was 13 ( got 9 stitches from it )
Once upon a time, I attempted (more like got dragged into) a wrestling match with a few guys somewhat larger than myself. I don’t remember what happened between when I got on the mat and when I hit the wall at a high velocity, but it gashed my head pretty badly.
I really haven’t gotten that many *bad* injuries. I mean, I broke my arm once, but everyone’s done that before, right?
Carpal tunnel…
Pulled a muscle along my spine while working out several years ago. Couldn’t move more than an inch at a time without repeatedly going “ow, ow, ow”. Had to sleep in a recliner for a few days.
in football. i sustained an injury which made my knee cap flip over.
it hurt a lot. i felt my bones grind to pop my knee cap back over. ugh.
I hyperextended my knee that laid me up for weeks… that then caused me to miss out on any real form of physical exercise for a whole year.
JONES FRACTURE! I rolled my foot at work and snapped the fifth metatarsal. 3 months on crutches non weight bearing.
In high school, I messed up a nerve in my back while lifting weights. I couldn’t even walk normally for weeks.
broke my anknle
I crapped my pants.
i broke 4 fingers at once
My worst injury was to dislocate my shoulder while riding my bike. I was about 20 miles from home.
ACL and MCL tears on my knee from a kneelock. 🙂
I recently had colon cancer and had some major surgeries.
If that doesn’t count as an injury, then it’d be a torn abdominal muscle. It hurt a lot and took lots of rehab.
cracked my head open when i was a kid
completely broken right tib and fib bones… took a titanium rod to help rebuild the broken bones.
bioken hip
Was running and around a friends house when I was younger and did not realize the gate was spring loaded and that all the kids in front of me had pushed it open to get through it so as I turned my head back from looking at something else I got nailed by the corner of it right where my left eyebrow is. Not really to bad an injury but haven’t been hurt to bad before.
cut my hand while crushing garlic. it was not the pain the humiliation when the medic put me in the car to take me to the hospital. it was a funny moment and i had to get some stitches for the cut.
I crashed my bike going through a corner in a bike race. I still finished in 6th, but I also came away with only half a pair or shorts and road rash larger in area than a CD covering my ass and upper leg. Nobody really needs to know this, but since you forced me to recall the incident I will mention that the wound oozed fluid for about a week!
Well, I have had a broken right femur, torn left knee ACL, both hips replacement, 2 discs removed from my neck with a metal plate installed, torn shoulder rotator cuff, and a spine compression in my lower back. My wife now calls me the Tin Man.
Broken teeth.
Ok, Honestly. This one has embarrassment, and and ouch attached to it. It’s sixth grade. And we were playing tag outside at recess. Yes we still had recess in 6th grade, and yes, I was playing tag at recess in 6th grade. I happened to attempt to hurdle off of the top of the “twisty slide” clipping my foot in the process. That ended up in roughly a 10 foot belly flop on to some nice frozen ground ( i live in northern michigan, and it hasn’t quit snowing all day). This resulted in my breaking both wrists at the same time. Thats my story.
I split my head open on the carnival ride “Gravitron”. You know how that thing sucks you up when it’s spinning? Well, it kept on sucking me up and my head hit a pipe in the roof of the thing. Weird, huh? I ended up with 30 stitches in the back of my head. Crazy sh*t…. true story.
Cracked my leg when I stood up too quickly, causing it to pop out and make me unable to walk on it. It went back to normal after a few hours. Since that time, however, my leg tends to pop out randomly, making me unable to walk on it for anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours.
broken heart
Broken arm.
my hand went through a glass door, and my wrist was sliced open
slipped on ice, landed on a rail and bruised my spine. found out years later when i was getting treatment for kidney stones that it made my spine slightly crooked.
I jumped onto a stage, slipped, and the edge of the stage took a 1 inch chunk out of my leg… It tickled! Pick me I am desperately needing one of those!
Sounds pathetic, but I’m going to have to go with a couple of really badly skinned knees when I was young. Guess I’ve been lucky so far.
Lobotomy after getting married.
Got my brain back after the divorce.
I was 25, jumping curbs with my mountain bike,…. oops! forgot that my friend borrowed it and didn’t lock the quick release on the front wheel. The front wheel came off in mid air. The forks hit the ground first. The bike with me attached to front flipped too quickly for me to react in time. I face planted on a street, road rashing off the back of my left ear and sideburn. I blacked out for a couple of minutes then went to the hospital to treat the concussion and fix my face. Good times.
when i was little
stabbed my two front teeth into my bottom lip …
after the stitches came out and I was better … I did it again. Mom was so pi**ed.
Had my chest split open.
paper cut 🙂
It’s a tie: either my knee (torn ACL) or achilles (torn tendon)
Only a broken finger! Seems I’m lucky!
Broken leg.
i fractured a couple bones in my hand back in high school…. been pretty lucky since then.