Stroke of luck.

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So I managed to stand on a nail whilst dismantling our old shed, and it went straight through. My other half is a bit of a panicky person, so took me to A&E :rolleyes:. Anyway whilst I'm sure they were annoyed that I'd wasted a nurses time, they did actually examine the wound and then say I would need a tetanus shot...

..which of course I had last Thursday in preparation for my holiday.

tldr:
Stood on nail, hole in foot, needed tetanus jab, recently had, how cool am I.
 
Nothing like a good rusty nail story. It would have been something if it had still been stuck in your foot when you went to hospital. :p
 
Once I stepped on a troll and its nose pierced my foot.

It did hurt quite a bit so I can imagine what a nail felt like!
 
Stepping on a drawing pin hurts enough, can't imagine what standing on a nail would feel like. Also going to A&E was the right decision.
 
Nicely done OP, managed to get me to breathe through my teeth in a Peter Griffin style fashion indicating some empathy for your pain!

Reminded me of the time that my Mrs stood on an upturned plug that was on the floor, it gouged a hole in her foot and bled profusely. Not nice!
 
I stood on a nail a couple of years ago, and it went all the way through my foot. I didn't scream and cry like a baby, honest. It was HORRIBLE!
 
Whenever I do this sort of thing I always wear riggers or steel toecap boots, most of them have a steel plate in the sole to stop this.

Did it go right through? did you have to pull it out??
 
I stepped on a huge nail whilst trying to squash the crap down into a skip, thankfully it only went through my shoe
 
maccapacca said:
Did it go right through? did you have to pull it out??
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It went through my boots, through the ball of my foot, and out the top directly above. It came straight back out when I lifted my foot, in rather a lot of pain.

semi-pro waster said:
It's not often you hear the words "stepped on a nail" and "stroke of luck" but well done on the PMA, Kriss Akabusi would be proud of you.
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The stroke of luck was already having had my tetanus jab ;).
 
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I can one-up that!

I once backed onto a rusty nail protruding from side of someone's garage as I leant against the wall. Didn't particularly notice until I "shifted" and felt pretty much pinned to the spot.

Immediately jumped forward, stuck my hand round and my finger almost went IN. Blood all over the place - and literally about an inch and a half from the spine. :eek:
 
I have a little mark on the top of my foot from when I stepped on a nail and it went clean in the bottom and out of the top :D

I was quite young at the time and my mum freaked out, big chunk of flesh came off when they took the nail out as well :(
 
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