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The Average Person Gets Sick or Injured Almost 10,000 Times in Their Lifetime

5/25/2012




A survey by a British healthcare company called Benenden Healthcare Society found that the average person gets injured or ill nearly 10,000 times in their life.  That breaks down to:

2,808 bumps and bruises:  That works out to 36 a year, or three a month. 

858 headaches:  That's a little less than one a month.  (That seems low.)

780 backaches:  That works out to 10 a year.

468 cases of upset stomach:  One every two months.

You'll also get 234 bug bites . . . the same number of paper cuts . . . 156 burns . . . 156 earaches . . . 78 bloody noses . . . 78 electric shocks . . . three trips to the hospital . . . two surgeries . . . and one broken bone.

 

(Red Cross Blog)