“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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broken ankle
broken arm
Broke my arm twice at the some spot
I had my arm fractured.
when i was 15, my dog came running down a hill, hit my leg and knocked me over. i landed on my left wrist and buckled it. now my left arm is about half and inch shorter than my right.
I ran into some aluminum bleachers while avoiding being hit during a sun flower spitting contest. It split open my knee, but all I got was about 7 stitches.
I also got hit in the head with the fin of a surfboard the first time I tried surfing and even though it was bleeding my roommate and I stopped to get milk before going to the emergency room to get five staples put in.
got my right hand thumb cut in half! (big metal door) but they put it together in hospital 😀
Torn ACL when playing flag football in the rain. Thought I could stop a guy twice the size of me (very built) who was part of the championship team the year prior. Needless to say, he won.
Broke my wrist while playing soccer…
Stitches on my chin, from faceplanting on ice.
my knees, they are realy messed up, fell a little to many times with the dirtbike
most recently: broken scaffoid (two places) when running for the bus 😛
Broken heart…. sigh.
Every morning I kept finding blood on the far corner of my eye and didn’t know why. After a week of this I woke up as I was falling out of bed and dashed the side of my face on my bedside table. Took an hour for the bleeding to stop and thankfully didn’t permanently damage my eye.
Sliced my head open. Skull could be seen, there was much blood, and I had a lit of stitches put in to ensure it didn’t pop open..
bike accident TBI from hitting head
Broken arm from rollerblading when I was in the 5th grade haha
Broken leg 🙂 That’s it!
I went over the handlebars of my bike once and lost a lot of skin on my arm and knee. Ouch.
Rollerblading. Sprained my hand very badly. It was black and blue for about a month.
Pneumothorax
I had a hernia one time
Got a big cut on my arm as a kid. Big knife fight with a gang of hoodlums. Or maybe it was falling on a planter in our yard, hard to remember. Still have a 4 inch raised scar to this day. Used to convince kids I had a worm in my arm.
I got some stitches on my knee because of a cut while I was p;aying in the floor.
Prolapsed penis
Hamstring injury. Been fighting it for a year.
Rotator Cuff . . . Ouch!
I’ve been smashed in my car by a woman, beside me, who didn’t noticed that we weren’t on a highway anymore. Hurt. (Especially for her own car. Mine is a rock)
I broke My Boner (Not really), I never had any serious injuries really. except for the 10 times I fell over my bikes front and landed on my head.
compressed my spine in the gym lifting too much weight. Couldn’t stand for almost a month and i still have episodes when i stand for long periods of time or sit in uncomfortable chairs.
When I was a little kid, I ran into the corner of a cinder block and busted my head open. Ouch.
Had a railroad crosstie fall and land on my head. Was a major concussion.
Split the back of my skull open when I was 3.
Worst injury evar: Hit by a drunk driver, flown 30 feet, then run over with. When I was three. It’s all uphill from there 😀
I dislocated my kneecap.
Shredded my MCL while snowboarding.
groin tear from hockey
I fell of a bike and cut my wrist with a broken old pipe. I needed four stitches
I broke my head 5 times
I was skateboarding and I broke my arm.
ive been pretty lucky, however i did (i was eleven) get hit in the head 10 times with a different kind of ball each time
When i was 18 i was in a car crash en route to the university campus on a rainy day. The car flip over the left side and I had the flesh of my right arm partially burned by the contact with the pavement and a lot of glass was spread all over and inside my skin. It requires a mini surgery to remove part of the glass, and a few weeks to recover from the injury.
One day… I broke a nail
I was running full tilt when I tripped and scraped up half of my face, my hand, and my knees… I looked like two face for a couple of weeks.
Broke both my arms.
Not much. Took a very fast cricket ball to the inner thigh once.
sprained bth my ankles at the same time and had to use a wheel chair
I once was stepped on extremely hard by a girl’s stilettos.
While chasing my girlfriend down the stairs, I broke my ankle.
Don’t know why I was chasing her.
i broke the tip of my index finger playing softball.
toenail ripped off