Toughest person you know...

• justincredible

  

  My uncle just posted on facebook a chain of events that led to my 78 year old grandma sneaking off to the doctor to get xrays on her hand. They were loading cattle to head to butcher (a pair of 1,100 pound steers) and one of them kicked the trailer gate as she was shutting it and it smashed her hand. She didn't say anything to my uncle (because she didn't want to throw off his schedule) and when he left to take them to the butcher she went to the doctors. Luckily nothing was broken.
• Zoltan

  Richie Incognito
• Manhattan Buckeye

  No intention meant to discriminate against the different service establishments, but my buddies in the Marines are pretty tough, given that they go away for months at a time and don't have much time to have when family when they are back - and they don't get paid that much.
• BRF

  

  In addition to what Manhattan Buckeye said, ..............Belly35
• Ironman92

  

  I think most good grandmas are tough as nails.
  
  I had 5 and all have the insane/unbelievable stories of toughness.
• Mulva

  

  The iron sheik.
• said_aouita

  

  justincredible;1532225 wrote:My uncle just posted on facebook a chain of events that led to my 78 year old grandma sneaking off to the doctor to get xrays on her hand. They were loading cattle to head to butcher (a pair of 1,100 pound steers) and one of them kicked the trailer gate as she was shutting it and it smashed her hand. She didn't say anything to my uncle (because she didn't want to throw off his schedule) and when he left to take them to the butcher she went to the doctors. Luckily nothing was broken.

  Farmers usually do well in toughness contests.
  
  I know a few farmers who'd just say "dag nabbit" after smashing their thumb with a hammer but Steve Henderson may take the cake. Lit himself on fire (accident) with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, you could see leg bone. He drove himself to the hospital (15ish minute drive) and didn't tell his wife.
  He also is the father of Brett and Troy Henderson. If you know those two, you'd understand.
• mcburg93

  

  Chuck Norris.
• vball10set

  My dad.
• Ironman92

  

  Bob Barker
• superman

  A guy I went to college with. Broke his leg sled riding. Didn't go to the doctor because it was finals week and he didn't have time.
• hang_loose

  said_aouita;1532320 wrote:Farmers usually do well in toughness contests.
  
  I know a few farmers who'd just say "dag nabbit" after smashing their thumb with a hammer but Steve Henderson may take the cake. Lit himself on fire (accident) with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, you could see leg bone. He drove himself to the hospital (15ish minute drive) and didn't tell his wife.
  He also is the father of Brett and Troy Henderson. If you know those two, you'd understand.

  said, I'm guessing wrestlers!!! Gonna make it to Ironman this year?
• cruiser_96

  

  hasbeen
• Fab4Runner

  

  My grandma is also pretty tough. Same with my dad and stepdad, my grandpa and my brothers. My little sister is really the only one in the family who is a giant vag about pain.
• dlazz

  superman;1532559 wrote:A guy I went to college with. Broke his leg sled riding. Didn't go to the doctor because it was finals week and he didn't have time.

  
  
  clearly had his priorities in order
• hasbeen

  

  cruiser_96;1533601 wrote:hasbeen

  heard that.
• superman

  dlazz;1533619 wrote:clearly had his priorities in order

  He was a 4.0 student is the annoying part.
• Pick6

  

  My dad.
• Classyposter58

  

  I'm pretty good about pain, but my grandpa really fights through it. Asked the doctor about a pain in his arm (worked in a factory) that he had for 8 months and turned out he a torn rotator cuff and bone spurs. Then he kept doing home improvements with a torn bicep, kinda crazy
• like_that

  

  Classyposter58;1534092 wrote:I'm pretty good about pain

  Damn straight you are! Tell that story again about how you played a round of golf with a cut finger!!!
• Belly35

  

  Thanks BRF but I have had my ass kicked a few times sometime you just have a bad day.
  
  I gave a talk yesterday to a group of kids with Autism, what a great group of kids and the teachers and helpers what a great job they do
  .
  Reading this thread, thinking about our family, my grandson disability and remembering those kids yesterday made me think.
  
  Parents of kids with disabilities and physical handicap are the toughest people I know.
  Mentally everyday they have to be prepared for situation many of us would be clueless, physically the strain sometime is over welling and the stress of the daily pressure, commitment and burden never subsides.