This one’s a quickie, folks.
Ketchup Up With Us Prompt
In 57 words or less, tell us about your DUMBEST injury ever.
And so I shall, acrostic style:
Dog’s leash around wrist.
Uh oh – dog pulls away.
My finger tries to go with dog.
Black and blue, it looks like a sausage.
It ends up looking like that pic below.
Nice, right?
Jewelry won’t fit anymore
Underwent multiple physical therapy sessions
Regained range of motion
Yet knuckle is permanently larger.
Dumbest injury ever.
That’s reason #421 why I will never own a dog. I think my dumbest injury involved alcohol, high heels, and a flight of stairs. The details are a bit blurry. Stopping by from SITS!
Thanks for visiting, Melissa! I have another dumb injury involving alcohol and heels too – but not stairs. Pretty sure I just tripped over my own feet.
Ouch!!! I’m glad that your ring didn’t have to be cut off!
Trivia – part of the checklist for Air Force pilots is to make sure they aren’t wearing any rings!! (because of things like your dog leash incident!)
I didn’t know that about the Air Force, but that makes sense! So many things a ring could get caught on in planes, I suppose.
You’re so clever – I love it! Those damn dogs, I tell ya. My dog wrapped his leash around my ankle and gave me the worst burn ever! It happened when I was like 15 and I still have a scar. So dumb!!…and painful.
Ouch – those leash burns hurt like a mother! I have a scar or two on my lower legs from that too. Remind me again why I have a dog?
damn dog. It is kind of funny though. Not for you, but for us. kind of.
I know, I know. You can laugh about it now 🙂
Oh dear a lot! But as others have said, at least you didn’t lose the finger, because I’ve heard of that happening!
I keep tripping over contour lines – yaknow the ones they put on maps to show altitude? Well I seem to find them all over the place, and stumble over them every time…
Wow, Lizzi – that takes a special talent to trip over imaginary lines. Maybe you should stop wearing those cute high heels 🙂
They’re not imaginary! Ask *any* cartographer!
And yeah…I can trip over them in flats *facepalm*
Ouch — that looks really painful! Reminds me of the time I smashed my thumb in a door at work (the same day I was planning on flying out to visit a friend) so I didn’t go to urgent care even though it was throbbing and my nail was turning black. OMG the pain… and the whole nail eventually fell off. It was so gross.
Eeww. My daughter shut the car door on her finger and the same thing happened. She saved her nail for awhile – in a plastic sandwich baggie. Don’t ask me why.
*Giggling* Stupid dog! Okay, cute dog, but still. I think it only fair that she be a little shamed for it. I poured boiling water on my hand while making tea and had to my wedding rings cut off. That was kind of dumb injury and I can’t even blame in any one else.
Oh my gosh! That’s horrible. I got my rings off before my finger started swelling.
Is it weird that I was saying oh but chuckling at the same time. I love your sense of humor, Dana! It seems like the smaller injuries tend to hurt even worse than the larger ones at time. Like a paper cut! Ouch!
I know – why is that? A paper cut is the worst!
OUCH!!! That looks and sounds very, very painful! I had a dumb injury courtesy of our dog and her leash when I was a kid. I was walking the dog, she saw a squirrel and took off. Rather than let go of the leash I held on and went flying through the air, cartoon style, then landed kerplunk snapping a bone in my arm. Lesson learned for both of us, right?
Lesson learned! But I still wrap the leash around my wrist when I walk her. So maybe lesson was not learned very well!
Ouch that looks painful!How did it become permanent?
Great job on the poem though 🙂
The redness and swelling disappeared, but the scar tissue around my knuckle stayed. Of course it was my ring finger 🙁
OH NO!! Poor you and he looks so ashamed
She should be ashamed. She permanently maimed me. Good thing she’s cute and easy to forgive.
Ouch!! I can sympathize. Playing basketball in high school – someone passed me the ball and it hit my right pinky finger just right (or wrong). Dislocated at the knuckle. “Re-adjustment” and splint for 3 weeks. It’s been about 20 years and that knuckle is still bigger than the other one! 🙂
We have matching fat knuckles, Lisa! My kids have had quite a few jammed fingers from basketball, but fortunately no lasting effects. Yet.
Owwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiieeeee! Your poor finger. And your entry is FANTASTIC! So creative. Love it. Not the injury, the entry. 🙂
Thanks, Mel! Sorry I was so late to post – but I did get in before you closed the link!
Owww!!! You made beautiful poetry out of your injury, though.
Why thank you, Tamara. I’m as excellent at poetry as I am at holding onto my dog.
Could your response style BE any cuter?
Odd style of speaking lifted from Chandler Bing.
Might be watching too many old episodes of Friends on Nick at Nite.
Maybe you should get a cat, Dana.
Even if you don’t like cats.
No cat walking injuries ever!
Thanks for playing!
I totally got the Chandler Bing speak. And no thanks to the cat – I’m sure I’d trip over it and knock out a tooth!
Ouch! One (notice, I said *one*) of my dumbest injuries was trying to hurdle a fence while I was running on the Virginia Tech campus. My foot caught the chain, and I landed, chin first on the concrete sidewalk. Took a nice trip to the ER for stiches and had to go to the dentist because I chipped a few teeth. At least the dentist was super HOT!!
Ha! Not to your fall, but to the hot dentist. That sounds like something I would do. I once knocked a can of green beans of the shelf in the grocery store and it hit me in the head. Still have a dent by my hairline.
That looked so painful. When I was a kid, my mom got her hand closed in the trunk of the car. She actually didn’t break it, but similar concept with the knuckle being all out of whack. So that is what you hand reminded me of this morning so many years later.
Ouch! Fingers can really take a beating. I’m just pissed that my ring finger will forever look like I have arthritis.
Noooooooooooooooo!!! And the damage was permanent?! What a nightmare!! You poor thing!! (at least your dog is adorable). I hope you threw that leash away just to show it who was boss. –Lisa
Damage was permanent but ring resized. Fortunately my husband had the good sense to have me take off my ring immediately after it happened, otherwise it would have had to be cut off.
Awww dang, so can you wear a ring there or never again?
I had my wedding set resized a year after it happened, so I can now get them over my fat knuckle.
Oh my goodness! I can’t believe all that from a dog leash fiasco!
I know – I was very unhappy with my dog for quite a while after that.
This is awesome idea, Dana! As two kids my buddy and I were flying down the street racing each other on our bicycles. There was lots of smack talking going on especially after I took the lead and had turned around to taunt him and embarrass him. I met at a brisk rate of speed a stationary tailgate of a truck in the down position. And was launched off the bike into the truck bed. A night in the hospital with a concussion. Oh there’s lots more over this lifetime ha, ha! 🙂
Ouch. At least you were doing something cool when you got a concussion. Glad it hasn’t affected you too much. Or maybe it has; I don’t know you well 🙂
In college I went to my friend’s parents condo for a weekend. We got in our bathing suits and ran out to the pool. Such a shame that the sliding glass door was closed. I never knew I could bounce like that.
Under 57 words! WOOHOO!! 🙂
Excellent job, Betsy! That must’ve hurt.
Ouch! At least you didn’t up losing a finger. That would have been even worse.
I’m prone to running into walls (while sober I might add), accidentally poking my eye while removing my contacts, or cutting a nail or cuticle too low causing it to bleed. I’m a klutz. I freely admit it.
I’m a klutz too, Kim. Those walls just jump right in front of me all the time!