Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: i have to start off by saying that this didn’t happen today. not yesterday, not last week even, but on this day precisely one year ago. however, i can still feel (or rather *not* feel) the consequences of it today, so i feel this post is somewhat justified.


to provide a little background: i had been on an internship in paris for the past three months and everything was going absolutely swell. i made some great friends, professionally things couldn’t be better and overall i had a blast spending time abroad alone for the first time in my life. being in paris just added to that experience. to quote my man ernest: 
“if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a moveable feast.” anyway, i digress. 


the residence i stayed at had its own little gym so i had been working out religiously during my time there. i was really getting into shape and becoming stronger. of course, with added power comes added cockiness so when a friend challenged me to a game of arm-wrestling one lovely saturday night i immediately accepted, gloating about his incumbent demise.


*i got this.*


turns out, i didn’t. we had been going at it for a good 30 seconds and i was at a small advantage but this dude was still not giving in. apparently, slightly inebriated germans are rather strong. me being extremely sober thought that i could maybe wear him out enough so that he would just give up. this didn’t seem to work and i tried to give it one last push with all my measly strength.


then it happened. crack. thud. argh.  my arm loudly banged against the table, in the opposite direction mind you. i didn’t realize what just had happened but my body sure as hell did. i couldn’t control myself and started yelling incoherent sounds, all the while breathing very loudly. the pain was very intense but started numbing down quickly when i sat down again. whenever i tried moving my arm, it started twitching. honestly i just thought i had torn a muscle or something.


an ambulance was called in and i was soon rushed to hospital. i was checked in and told to wait. overall i had to wait for 4 hours in the er which wasn’t the most pleasant of experiences. (during that time i saw a guy with a beret strapped to a stretcher trying to fight two nurses because they called him monsieur while he’d rather be called madame. aah, paris, comme je vous adore)


anyway, when someone finally came to see what kind of dire straits i had gotten myself into, they just started berating me. i was a blithering idiot for arm-wrestling, i had been the third guy that month with the same injuries (didn’t even know you could break your arm while arm-wrestling, let alone that this wasn’t a very rare freak accident). in the meantime, my arm had swollen to schwarzenegger proportions and the guy examining me asked if i was on steroids. no thanks, i wasn’t. he told me i had broken my humerus and that i needed surgery asap. great.


the next morning i had surgery and the surgeon came to me afterwards and said everything had gone over smoothly and that i should be as good as new in a few weeks. however, i still couldn’t move my arm after two weeks and the doctors concluded that they probably had severed a nerve. (maybe the surgeon can post a tifu from his perspective)


long story short, my wrist and fingers were paralyzed for 7 months and only in the last few months have i been making progress. i still have a pretty bad-ass scar and a few insensitive spots on my arm to make me remember my fuck up.

quick photo i took with my cellphone: http://i.imgur.com/l3jinya.jpg

TIFU and broke my arm while arm-wrestling, paralyzing my wrist and fingers in the process.