h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As a kid, I was always getting hurt. It was nothing unusual for me to have an ankle sprained, or a wrist.

I ran into a lamp post with my sleigh, strained every tendon in my foot.
I turned around and stepped right into a tree - nose first, no damage done.
I was playing hockey at our community rink, in my brand-new figure skates. One of the boys ran right into me. He went one way, I went the other, hip first into the boards, and got carried off the ice. Couldn't walk for 2 days and had such a bruise! My mother wasn't amused!

I didn't stop when I grew up.

I was living on my own, and went nose-first into a closed bathroom door in the middle of the night. Broken nose, and knocked out cold. The worst thing, is my cat thought I was curled up on the floor for his benefit, curled up in my lap and went to sleep. Black eyes for a week. That took a LOT of explaining at work. I was in the Navy.

The worst accident I've had, to date is when I cracked my pelvis. I was at work, just parked my truck and was almost running up the sidewalk to the admin building where I worked. It was early Spring, cold out, and I hadn't worn a warm enough jacket. All the snow was gone, but there was this patch of black ice on the sidewalk. I hit it in mid-stride, with the heel of my left foot and toe of my right foot on the ground, went up in the air about 3 feet, flew 4 feet (by measurement with Work-Place Safety Committee) and landed on my hip. That time I got hauled away in the ambulance. A week in hospital, 4 weeks on crutches, and 8 weeks of physiotherapy. It was the start of Month End, and I went to extreme measures to avoid doing it!