Many people argue about this topic all the time: Who has had the worst thing happen to them.

Lots of people have talked about their personal injuries on many occasions in the longest thread. i think this deserves its own topic.

I broke my neck when i was 12. I broke my C2 vertebrae (sp?).  If i had broken it a quarter of an inch lower, i wouldve been paralyzed from the neck down.  To fix it i had to wear a halo brace for 3 or 4 months.  Part of the installation of the halo brace required 6 two-inch screws to be drilled into my head.  2 in my forehead and 2 above each ear. 

So beat that you guys.

my friend said "hey ben, whats that in the pool"
*i lean over* "i dont see anything"
*push*
*crunch*

oh. the appendix story sounds really bad. I know its bad when its about to explode, but most people get it out before or right after it happens. i cant imagine what you went through! 

My mom had that once too, the almost bleeding to dead thing.. I think she was like 6 months along, and she didn't want the doctors to take the baby away. They told her she could've died though, and if she didn't let the baby removed she had to be in the hospital 'till the baby was born. And she did, now that baby is my youngest brother, and I still have the same mom.
I don't know if I should ever do something like that, keeping the baby if it could kill me. I don't even understand why the doctors let her keep it, she must've been really hysterical about it.

I never had really bad injuries. Hmmm.. Let me think. I sprained a lot of things, my arms and legs couple of times, and my feet... Never broken anything too. 2 or 3 years ago, I dropped something heavy on my toe. I really thought it was broken. The next day we went to take a picture of it, the guy said it was only a crack! And it looked like it was the 3rd one so far I ever had in that toe. Ok than! Never noticed, lol.

Oh this one time in camp was 'bad'. I was 11 then, and it was time for bed. Earlier that day I couldn't join in a game because I was experiencing some pain in my stomach and chest. They gave my some painkillers and everything was ok.
So that evening, me and 3 of my friends were brushing our teeth. All of a sudden I felt the pain rising again, it was rising rapidly. For a moment I couldn't even breath because of it. Then the pain got so bad I fell on the ground. After that I only remember flashes of a woman picking me up and someone putting a chair outside for me. Next thing I know, a guy from camp is coming to me, asking if everything is ok with me. I still had pain, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it was before. Then the guy said "Ok, you've been sitting outside for 30 minutes like the doctor said, now you can go sleeping." I was like, what doctor? Apparently the doctor came 15 minutes after I fell, and stayed for a while and then said I had to sit outside for 30 minutes to be sure.
I lost my memory for like an hour or so. And when my friends talked about it, they said it was really scary because I was kicking and screaming how much it hurted. I don't remember any of that! That was so strange.
I think this is what happened (according to my psychology books ): when a person experiences something very traumatic, the brain 'deletes' of 'hides' the memory of it, to protect the person. That's the same reason why a lot of people have memory lost after a car accident.

That was it, it's not really that bad, I can't remember anything from it, but I think it's pretty heavy for an 11 year old  .
I can never compete with you guys though!

well, hello ben, its a thread about sad things happening to you.  what did you expect??

yeah that definatly sucks.  getting that done for no reason mustv been bad.

oh yeah, it totally sucked. so painful. hehe.

I don't even like the idea of a spinal tap...

yikes, that must have been terrible.
I don't think there was too much bleeding with mine, but of course I couldn't really see it. And my mom left the room shortly after it started because she couldn't handle watching it.

ew.