Show me your best bruises! (not for the squeamish)

[Anelia]

A broken nose and face bruises.
I also have had a whole on one side of my abs and it hurt a lot more than the broken nose. I didn't want to make the surgeon who did the stitches nervous by making pictures of the wound. Anyway, he did a lousy job and after 2 weeks when we had to remove the stitches, the wound was not healed but infected and another surgeon had to clean it again (it hurt!). The whole recovery took me about a month and I was not able to ride a bike during this period. Not to mention the first two weeks were awfully painful. The whole was punched by my brake lever and it was about 2 inches deep. I was lucky that I didn't have any internal organs damaged.

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Oh...OW!!! What happened?! That infection would have almost been the scariest part. I'm glad that didn't get any worse.

[jobob]

Four days after my very first mtn bike ride ever, with SadieKate.

Yeah, I bruise easily.

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Egads...now THOSE are some SERIOUS bruises!!! How did you manage that? What did you land on and how fast?

[jobob]

Basically, I'm a klutz. I certainly wasn't going fast, I just skidded and tipped over & landed on some rocks on the side of the trail.

Heh, and then there was the time not too long after that when LeeBob & I went mtn biking with maillotpois. Lee took the brunt of that one. Though I managed a couple of nifty little falls as well. Guess I'm just not well suited to mtn biking.

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Basically, I'm a klutz. I certainly wasn't going fast, I just skidded and tipped over & landed on some rocks on the side of the trail.

Sounds like when I did this one, though I just landed on sand and roots:


I'm not well-suited to anything that takes grace or coordination...doesn't stop me, though. I'm a slow learner...

[GLC1968]

I don't bruise, at all.

I fell on my shin once, hit it so hard that I split the skin open through my jeans and yet I didn't bruise. 6+ years of rugby and my teammates thought there was something seriously wrong with me since I never had any 'war wounds' to show.

And when I fell and twisted my right foot so badly that I ripped my ligaments completely from my bones (and broke one bone) I had zero bruising...even after surgery. The only bruise I had was that tiny little dark spot on my 2nd toe. Even the doc was surprised!

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I wish I didn't bruise...here's from a few days after my ankle sprain. I had so much swelling that the actual bruising didn't look as bad as it likely was: