TW for blood, gore, and related.
[spoiler]It's totally embarrassing how it came about, but basically I was in eighth grade and me and my sibling were have a foot war and I had a plastic bag with my knitting projects lying close by. I thought my foot landed next to a knitting needle, but when I lifted my foot, it was stuck in my sock, so I was like, "Let's try pulling it out--hOLY !*&$(^$*&^%^&^*$#!" My sibling started freaking out a little. I thought, no.... no way. It can't possibly have gone through my foot. Then I had my sibling hand me a pair of scissors and I cut open my sock... and voilà, of course it did. Odd thing was, it didn't hurt at all, and I was very matter-of-fact and maybe a little too calm for someone who had a knitting needle stuck in their foot. (At least it was on the thin side?) It was my sibling who started hyperventilating and crying. I called my parents, who were on a walk, and some family friends and their daughters dropped by to give us a gift and found me sitting on my bed with an honest-to-god knitting needle in my foot and my sibling freaking out. The entire ride to the nearest ER facility (like 30 min away because my city is SMALL) everyone but me was spazzing. I got wheeled in and they gave me laughing gas (I was actually laughing, but only 'cause I was nervous about how they were gonna get it out) which was kinda ?? ?? ?? and the doctor said "I'm gonna have to pull it out." That's when I started freaking out. No anesthesia? No numbing agent?? NOTHING?? But I really wanted that knitting needle out so I nodded and giggled nervously and he counted to three and freaking yanked the thing out and holy smokes it effing HURT and there was some blood dripping and my stomach got a little queasy. I was on crutches for three weeks and had a lot of fun freaking out my friends with the X-Rays they took. And that's how the ER people got a memorable story and how I got a knitting needle in (and out of) my foot.
Epilogue: I wasn't thinking when they asked if I wanted to keep the knitting needle and I told them to throw it away and only on the car ride back did I realize that its other half now was useless. Soooo :I And now I keep my knitting projects faaaaar away from my feet.