Ice Skating Trip Fall Leads to Surgery

If you look at Brenda's left hand, you will clearly see a white, jagged line running almost the whole length of her wrist. This is the scar, she says, that she got from a serious fall she suffered when her class took an ice-skating trip to commemorate the end of their middle school journey over ten years ago.

(Above: Brenda's scar, the result of an ice skating trip where she took a fall. The fall eventually led to surgery to repair her damaged thumb.)

For Brenda, this ice-skating event proved to be a little bit more than painful. Her first time skating brought the expected beginner's falls; but because one particular slip was so severe, she ended up having to wear a cast to fix what she later learned was a broken wrist.

However, sometime along her sophomore year of high school, she realized she had a "weird" thumb.

"It would just lay limp," she says, pulling up her hand to demonstrate. "I couldn't move it...it turns out I had broken a tendon"

Unless she physically moved her thumb around, she explained, she had lost all ability to move the top portion of her thumb like normal.

Eventually, Brenda had no choice but to undergo surgery to repair the broken tendon. But the scar on her wrist is a reminder of that tumble she took that day.

It appears that her injury is the situation explained in medscape.com

Hole in one's....forehead?

(Above: Tony's scar above his eye is evidence of an unfortunate encounter with a swinging golf club. From far away, it's almost unnoticable)

Tony never imagined a playful day of golf out in the sun with his neighbor would lead to an accident that would send him to the emergency room.

In fact, he came very close to losing one eye when his then-neighbor, Aaron, wacked him with a golf club in an accidental, but nevertheless, extremely powerful swing.

"It's like something you would see on failblog", he says. "I don't even know why I did that, just stand behind him [while he swung], but I did".

If you look closely at his forehead, you might just miss it. In fact, even if you squint your eyes and inspect the area carefully, chances are you won't notice the scar. Still, the memory of the whole accident is enough to bring both a mix of laughter and careful moments of reflection for Tony, realizing just how lucky he really was.

(A close-up shows Tony's scar, a thin line running close to his left eyebrow. The blow came dangerously close to his eye)

In terms of the actual, painful blow to the forehead he received, Tony has a dim memory of the pain's intensity:
"I didn't really feel anything," he says. "I just remember feeling a dull, achy pain and seeing all this blood."

He adds that perhaps the fact that the doctor used anesthesia for the stitches might contribute to the apparent painless experience.

And as for his neighbor. What did he do?

"Nothing," he says "Aaron's grandma only said 'oh are you ok', and that was it...and that '[the cut] was not that bad'."

And even though he got stitches, he adds, "we're still friends today."