You ever get hit in the noggin, real hard? I've taken a couple good ones. Just wondering. I'm thinking 80% of men have been whacked at least once and only 20% of women. I thought this was the land of equal opportunity. Guess we'll have to start an affirmative action program. Just a joke, y'all--before you pounce.

I have. I grew up getting hit in the head by my parents, fighting, bike wrecks, car wrecks, and I boxed for a couple of years whilst in the Army, too.

Man! Talk about poor choices--Joining the Army & boxing.
Flyboy & coward, me.

When I was eight, my sister was chasing me around the house    (probably to hit me)LOL!  I slipped and hit the back of my head so hard on the floor that I threw up for hours afterward!    Guess that puts me in the 20%!

Jeannie

5 fractures in my skull from being hit by a drunk driver (I was a pedestrian) and God knows how many fractures to my skull from my first ex.

I've done my time in the X Ray dept LOL

none of it knocked any sense into me though...

I slammed my head real hard twice when i was young.  Once i was 4, the other was about 8.

Other than that, nothing more than ordinary bumps here and there.  Some of them would probably be pretty damn funny on America's Funniest Home Videos, but nothing major.

Must be unusual for a woman- 3 concussions from being drunk when a student and falling backwards off barstools  :-[ :-[- then hit quite a few times as a police officer, mostly by drunk women, and once by a male psycho (literally)

W

I do remember once, when I was about 8, falling down the basement stairs at my grandparents and hitting the back of my head on the concrete floor.  

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I'm thinking 80% of men have been whacked at least once

When I was young, I whacked it so many times I'm surprised I'm not blind!!

Had a pretty bad concussion @ 16. I was laid up for 2 weeks over that one.

B

You are truly whacked, and so is Hub. Maybe Magoo, too!

When I was a kid, I ran full-speed into the corner of a concrete picnic table at our park, spliting my noggin right open.  I still remember the sound like it was yesterday.  It sounded like a balloon popping, and the blood was everywhere instantly.  The sound was the last thing I remember before the hospital.  I was a bright kid, so of course this running was being done with a blanket over me so I couldn't see where I was going.  Fractured skull, stitches, indian feather on my wrapped head... ah the memories.

That was a good year for our doctors.  My thumb was lopped off only a month later in a table saw accident.  It was reattached, thank God.

Get this, my doctor's name (real name) was Dr. Repair.

-Shawn

the first fall I know of was around my 2nd birthday when I fell so hard on my face I put my bottom teeth through my lip -still have a scar, and the 2nd time I actually remember was at 5 when I was pushing a metal merry go round, ducked, then stood up and got my forehead split open by the metal bar.  Many other incidences in child hood and young adulthood of head splitting bumps, and a few very bad head wacks as an adult in car accidents, plain old doing the splits in the rain, slipping on hard wood, and running into doorframes while running through the house in the dark to get something in the kitchen.

lol - [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Charlotte

ps almost forgot the time when I was 5 and the christmas parade went in front of our house in Clyde CA.  I ran into the middle of the street and then looked both ways like my mom had told me, put out my hands, was hit by the firetruck with Santa on it, did a double back flip, and then was taken to the hospital with Santa & my mom for exrays - no broken bones.

When I was young, I whacked is so many times I'm surprised I'm not blind!!
HaHa      I had a hard time reading the small print.

First head injury was at the age of 1 and a half (I was told about this one as t resulted in stiches above my right eyebrow).

There have been a number of them since in a number of different types of incidents and I'd write a novel to put them all (the ones I can recall anyway)

A couple of the more serious of these were... Getting thrown from the horse at 5 years old.  (broke my arm with that one too)  Fell down the cement stairs from the garage to a concussion at 13.  Car accident at age 21.  Assult at age 33.

Oh I forgot about the neighbor who hit me in the left side of the head with a thrown rock.  I was 6.

Bob P wrote on Dec 17^th, 2008 at 2:42pm:

Quote: I'm thinking 80% of men have been whacked at least once When I was young, I whacked it so many times I'm surprised I'm not blind!!

Oh, you left that one open.... but I'm NOT going to touch it... I'll let Chuckles do the honors!!!! ;D ;D ;D

Hugs BD

Coupla stitches on the back of my head from falling on the concrete basement floor and then a whack with a baseball bat above my left eye when I was 11.  Broadsided in a car when I was twelve.

But I'm a supporter, not a clusterhead.

Hit my head on the concrete driveway when I was 5 racing my brother on my big wheel  - Got a concussion, puking  the whole nine

Kelly

Worst one was when the Little League dougout I was in got caught in a gale and went over.....on several heads.  I really slammed myself on a piling getting out of our boat when I was a kid. Otherwise....so far as I know....of course...not too bad. START PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGESTART PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGE

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Jeannie wrote on Dec 17^th, 2008 at 2:12pm:

When I was eight, my sister was chasing me around the house    (probably to hit me)LOL!  I slipped and hit the back of my head so hard on the floor that I threw up for hours afterward!    Guess that puts me in the 20%! Jeannie

My sister caught me! I was 11 and it was a Friday night. My mom put us both on restriction for a messy room and I was nagging about it all being her fault that I couldn't go out and if she wasn't a pig we wouldn't be in this mess. I just kept going on and on and she picked up a board and hit me in the head giving me a concusion that put me in bed for a week and taught me what an eeg was. First day out of bed, a week later, a ladder fell on my head. I also have a bad scar on my tongue and head from very early in my life, something to do with walking into a swing set???  I wonder how we all made it.

Charlotte

Thebbz I need that!!!  Multiple attempts at splitting my head open when I was young, and 5 attempts in the last 6 months - 3 resulting in severe concussions, but hitting my head when I rolled the van just gave me a few bruises, no lasting dain bramage from that one.

I grew up being told I was hard headed, and my hubby is adamant that's true, so I've just decided to prove them all wrong by splitting my head open....it would seem the verdict is that I am hard headed after all, I have tried really hard to prove that wrong, but my head is still in one piece.  My mind however is a different story .....

Cat

catlind wrote on Dec 18^th, 2008 at 8:37am:

My mind however is a different story ..... Cat

And a mind is a terrible thing to waste!  :)

Here's one for ya...never had a head injury. Never.
I must be the 1% of the 1%, eh?
TomM

         Yep couple of times.

           Potter

Hit by a car at age 11 and then a golf club at age 16 when one of my idiot friends tried to show me how to swing a driver.  Seems I wasn't supposed to stand that close.  Got me on the follow through  ::)

-Dennis-

I've hurt my head at least twice simply by walking down my home street to the mailbox and then fell down because the street was do slippery in the winter.

Sanna

My most memorable head injury was my figure skating accident back in the spring of 2003.  Can't say I was even doing anything cool.  Edge drills - had literally just pushed off, lost my balance, decided to break the fall with the back of my head and neck in one large crack.  Ended up with concussion and neck sprain.  Went back to skating 7 days later, as soon as I was allowed!  They told me I should wear a helmet - I said no way in hell.  I wasn't going to be the only 22 year old on the ice with a helmet along with the 3 year olds! hahaha

Hard headed and proud of it.  :P

When I was 5 or 6 my sister, who was just learning how to walk, hit me in the head with a metal Tonka dump truck. I guess I shouldn't have kept tripping her while she was walking. But damn it, I was the baby and she stole my thunder!!

Lets see, other head traumas would be a motorcycle accident, car accident, ambulance accident x 5, and a fire truck accident.

Oh, and I fell through a ceiling once while checking an attic to make sure the chimney fire hadn't started a fire in the attic.

Two really bad one's put in the hospital for a quick stitch-up and pain meds, no CT scanners near us back then.

Then the one's as a kid, I call them the "knock-outs" from bicycle's, no helmets back then either, stepping on a rake (that one was classic) and so on. [smiley=yikes.gif]

Often thought it was one of those hard hits to the head that was what caused my "crippling headaches". I know different now. ;)