In a post to her fan club members, the country singer said that in addition to having surgery on her wrist, she required "40 and 50 stitches" to her face Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE Carrie Underwood ...

They continued, "Anyways, I went to bend down and pick something up and I didn't see the amethyst and I hit my head, and I had to get three stitches last night – –in my face!" After FaceTiming ...

It wasn’t a dirty play, just a routine hockey moment — but it happened at the worst possible time as his face was pushed directly ... and needed an astonish 75 STITCHES to close the wound.

LONDON (AP) — Crystal Palace forward Jean-Philippe Mateta needed 25 stitches on a cut to his ear ... ball and struck Mateta in the side of the face with a high left-footed follow-through.