ever break any bones?

[sonofslim]

spurred (get it? bone spur?) by the inline-skating thread: have you ever broken any bones?

i got both wrists, 2 ribs, 4 fingers, and an undetermined number (but > 50%) of my toes.

all of those were at different times, though.

[mrjamin]

broke my arm just below my shoulder, dislocated it too. Doctors had to stand (yes, stand) on my broken arm to pop the joint back in.

*ouch*

broke a toe once, fractured my nose and cracked a rib when some muppet jumped me on my way back from school as a kid

[eyelikeart]

I fractured the "growth" bone in my middle finger on my right hand playing football when I was 10. I had to wear a splint around for 6 weeks. It's still mildly amusing to show people the finger when illustrating it. :D

[Stelliform]

My 5 year old broke his arm two weeks ago. :( (He broke both bones in his right forearm.) They had to set it twice. (The first setting shifted in the first week.)

He broke it by falling off of the monkey bars at school. When he showed me which bar it was only 4 feet off of the ground! He said he was standing on it. Oh, BTW they had 2 inch rubber padding. :rolleyes:

He is doing better now, although I just got the first bill from the hospital. $4000! :eek: I have insurance though.... But I bet after all of the bills come in I will pay out $1000. :(

[sparkleytone]

luckily i have never broken any bone. i think if i did, it would be even more painful than some people. my bones are überthick. its not a joke when i say i am bigboned. :)

[idea_hamster]

I got a stress fracture in my fibula (the "other" bone in the lower leg besides the shin) during a road march in basic training when I was in the army.

Not surprisingly, the drill sergeants didn't believe me for a week until they saw an x-ray. That week stunk -- lots of running, marching and standing around on a cracked bone. "Come 'own, prah-vate! I know you ain't gonna make me wait while y'all waddle along! Let's go, he-ro!"

[Giaguara]

A motorcycle falling over me broke my right leg above the knee years ago (I was old enough to drive..). Now it disturbs only when it's very cold.

Also the right wrist, when I was about 10.

And the small bones of the right foot, when I was under 10. It still bugs me. If I swim, the foot does not turn how it should; walking it does not matter unless I have not good shoes or walk over 10 miles (or it's cold). Hm, just wondering if all these breaks on my right can have anything to do with being a lefty?

[jefhatfield]

i am just days from being 40 and i have never broken any bones

i wonder what the odds of that are?

but what i find strange is when i meet someone my age who has never been to the doctor, outside of birth and immunizations, or somebody who has never had a cavity

i am a beer and wine hobbyist, but i never took a drink of beer before i was 21 and that must be some sort of record since i have sampled perhaps over a thousand beers in the last 20 years or so and hundreds of wines...i got started when i went to this bar that had 250 beers on tap and i exhausted that joint in short order

that said, i drink responsibly and i believe in quality of beer or wine, not quantity and i don't condone drinking gallons of budweiser, having unprotected sex, mixing it with rave drugs, and then hitting the road as i have friends and acquaitances who have either died or got injured that way

[medea]

I've broken my toe, fractured the growth plate in my foot, and completely broke my jaw on both sides as well as fracturing my chin.

oh forgot about severally brusing my ribs.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by medea
I've broken my toe, fractured the growth plate in my foot, and completely broke my jaw on both sides as well as fracturing my chin.

oh forgot about severally brusing my ribs.

so are u just accident prone or do u have a lot of enemies? :eek: ;)

[leet1]

Right hand knuckle.

Threw a firecracker at my friend, he went to pick it up, I yelled "NOOOO!" BAM, scared the **** out of him and he started chasing me. I ran like a bat out of hell, tripped and landed on it. Was cool, swelled up, funny looking and got to sleep on some boo bee pillows for confort the same night. It never hurt :p


Country sucks when it comes to running, holes everywhere, lol

[WinterMute]

Nose twice, jaw fracture, dislocated both thumbs several times, dislocated left elbow, both collarbones, several fingers, knuckles and toes, 2 broken ribs and I snapped my right kneecap in half.

Most of these are martial arts or rugby injuries, but the kneecap happened when I got hit by a chair in a recording studio:D

[krossfyter]

ive never had any bones broken.. im 26 and played soccer, football, rugby and been involved in a number of fights, been in 2 auto accidents in which unfortunatly claimed the life of 2 people and almost me... what are the odds of that?... much like what jefhatfield is saying... wonder if i can go 15 more years like him with my current record. chances are i could since i don't do anymore strenous activities anymore in which the risk of breaking a bone is there... unless you inculde lifting wieghts as one.

do i drink a lot of milk? nope but i eat a lot of frijoles! didnt really drink beer or liqour till after 21 and only rare occasions go to a doctor... havent been to one in 6 years now since my last auto accident.


-powered by frijoles

[baby duck monge]

sounds like there are plenty of us around here that are complete messes.

for me...

broken toes on the left foot

shattered (well beyond broken) ring finger and pinky on my right hand.

fractured right wrist (twice)

fractured right elbow (once. went along with one of the wrist fractures - what they call a bowing fracture)

dislocated right shoulder

chipped skull (forehead region)

basically just a messed up left knee (bad wear and tear for my age - can't be fixed, only improved)

i guess most of that is not broken bones, but close enough, i suppose. i feel so old. too bad i'm only 20...

[tpjunkie]

I just realized that I broke my thumb about a month ago....at the time it happened, i was drunk (i actually posted about it after the fact in the "have u ever been drunk" thread") so while it hurt, I wasnt too concerned. The following two weeks the thumb was bruised pretty heavily. I only got curious recently, when a month and a half later, the thumb still hurts when hit in a certain area. Sitting in calc today, I bent it back and was surprised to see a bone protrusion under the skin where the end of my metacarpal had chipped off, and then set and fused improperly with the rest of the bone. If it continues to hurt, ill have something done about it...either way, its a pretty minor bone breakage.

Oh wait, I also had a stress fracture in high school when I was running track.

[sonofslim]

i have a friend who broke a femur. snapped it right in half. i got dizzy just hearing the story of how they set it. just imagine: no anaesthetic -- something about shock or hemmoraging or something -- and lots of nurses pulling and tugging on what are now two separate halves of the largest bone in your body while the thigh muscles are spazming and pulling them out of place. AAAAARGH!!

[scem0]

I think I may have broken my finger once. I was playing basketball and I jammed it REALLY bad. It hurt for ~2 months and then it slowly faded away. I never saw a doctor or anything, so I don't know if it was broken, fractured, or just really badly jammed.

scem0

[rainman::|:|]

broke my left arm (in like 7 places, it was almost a massive compound fracture... thank god for stretchy skin), pulverized part of one finger, they kind of shaped the tissue back together and amazingly enough a new bone grew. plastic surgery got me a functional fingernail and i have full feeling. pretty amazing. cracked a couple of ribs, but who hasn't, and tho it's not a bone, i have broken my nose like 5 times... i'll be getting a nosejob in a few years, badly needed.

so not many, but the ones i did break were fairly substantial injuries :)

pnw

[hvfsl]

When I was 5 I cracked my skull open, I have a patch on my head where the hair will not grow back, but I have never broken any bones.

My brother has broken his leg at least twice though, and he is only 14. I also have a family member that had a lot of her bones in her body broken when she got hit by a bus, but you would never know it now if you met her.

[mac15]

my nose, thats about it

[Counterfit]

I broke the big toe on my right foot, but I don't remember how, as I was only 3. I'm told I stubbed it on a bedpost. My arm on the other hand, er, limb, I unfortunately do remember. I was playing (American) football at a family birthday party after a soccer practice. He didn't want to hurt me by talking me, so he swiped my legs out from underneath me. I went flying and tried to break my fall (bad idea :rolleyes: ).
There was a loud snap as I broke both bones in my right arm. Initially everyone thought I broke my wrist. Thankfully I didn't, but my arm was a mess. My bones broke about 1.5 inches from my wrist and shifted upward. It took the doctors three tries and about 11 hours to get the cast right. I think the worst part was that the curtain room I was in had a Super NES in it, and I couldn't play. :(

[kaosfere]

Only done it once, last year. I'd just gotten my second speeding ticket in two weeks, after keeping a clean record for seven years. Got home pissed, stormed into the house, slammed the door, then hauled back and knocked the crap out of the living room wall. Now, bear in mind we live in an old house with plaster/mesh/lath walls. Might as well be punching concrete.

I felt slightly better for a few seconds, until I realized my hand felt odd. Looked at it, and it was practically folded in half. In that strange hyper-lucid state of mind you have just after you suffer a major injury, I thought, You know... that's going to hurt pretty bad right... about... NOWWWWWWWWWWW.

Snapped my third metacarpal in half, dislocated the fourth and fifth complete, and shoved them, and the ragged end of the third, back over the top of my wrist. The X-rays were pretty gruesome looking.

Had to go under the knife to get it all put together right, have four external pins sticking into it for three months, and went through several months of physical therapy. It's still not right, and may never be, but at least I have most of my strength back, and it doesn't hurt too much to shake hands.

[tazo]

i fractured my left wrist when I was like 12 years old.....

[medea]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
so are u just accident prone or do u have a lot of enemies? :eek: ;)
neither really, all happened when I was young and much more active, I just had some bad falls.

[Durandal7]

I fractured my wrist in a fall once, got a couple hairline fractures. I think that I broke my large toe once but I never looked into it.

[cb911]

i've only kind of fractured my collarbone. i was riding home one afternoon (BMX) and i was coming down a hill at about 40km/h (that's pretty much full cruising speed on a BMX). there was a car parked on the side of the road, and another car coming up the road at me. i was almost in the middle of the road, so i moved over so i'd go by fairly close to the parked car and stay out of the way of the oncoming car. then the car went past, and i was riding past the parked car, must have been about a 45cm gap from my handlebar to the side of the car. i'm just cruising along, then i'm about half way past the car, and the door opens in front of me. didn't even have time to do anything, i just remember thinkin "what? is that a door?!"

than my shoulder hit the door or something, and i just got thrown to the ground and took a fairly big chunk out of one elbow and slid for a few metres. there were sparks from my pegs when they hit the bitumen, so that was kind of cool. lucky i was wearing a helmet as well... it was cracked down the right side, and i was farily dizzy when i got up, could hardly walk straight. i hate to think what would have happened if i hadn't been wearing a helmet. :eek:

i went to the doctor and got x-rays of my shoulder, but they couldn't see anything. now i've got a bump on my collarbone and my shoulder doesn't sit in the correct postition, so i'm stuffed. i didn't even get the details of the woman that was in the car 'cause i was just worried that i'd have to pay for the door, it was screwed.

the woman was more worried about me though, she said "oh my god, i nearly killed you!"

anyways, i'm used to stacking it, so that didn't really bother me. so i guess i can only really say i've fractured 1 bone. i think that's fairly lucky. :)

[wdlove]

I have never broken any bones. Now that I'm 55, have started taking daily calcuim. I take 600mg twice a day, which is the recommended amount.

[alia]

Also broke my collar bone. I was very young, three or four, and sitting on the edge of my parents' bed. I was giggling a lot, fell back, and rolled into the wall, hitting it at a 45% angle. I ended up snapping my collar bone right down the middle. My dad had to snap it back into place. It was EXTREMELY painful. I still remember the pain.

Alia

[pepeleuepe]

I broke my thumb playing ultimate frisbee. It was on my writing hand as well, so it got me out of a couple of homework assignments :)

[MacAztec]

I don't know if I have broken anything. I may have bruised a rib in the first game this season. I got hit, and after the game, it hurt to breathe and stuff. It hurt for like 3 weeks.

In the second game of the season, someone hyperextended my ankle. I had been tackled and was on my stomache, with my legs extended, and someone stepped on my heel, pushing it the opposite way to the ground.

It hurt real bad, but i kinda walked it off. I don't think I should have. Ever since, (6 weeks), my ankle locks up every 2 minutes and I have to rotate it, then it pops real loud. I probly do it like 40 times a day.

But on the left side of my ankle, right next to that bone that sticks out, it has been swollen ever since. I think its just fluids that need to be drained or something.

[Counterfit]

Originally posted by wdlove
I have never broken any bones. Now that I'm 55, have started taking daily calcuim. I take 600mg twice a day, which is the recommended amount. Just like my father! except he's "only" 52 and he takes Centrum Silver. (He made sure that I didn't point out that it matches his hair :D)

[sillymacgirl]

What a painful sounding thread! Anyway, I've only broken two bones so far<knocks on wood>. My big toe on my left foot(I was walking barefoot and tripped over my brother's foot while he was sitting on the floor), and my left hand was broken in a car accident. I have severly bruised my tailbone before(twice as a child) and couldn't imagine that being broken. Just bruised it was awful...you can't sit, you can't stand, you can't bend down, you can't straighten up...talk about miserable!

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by mac15
my nose, thats about it

Your nose isn't bone is it...

:p

(cartilage)

I broke my left wrist... back in 6th grade... so 3 years ago.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by wdlove
I have never broken any bones. Now that I'm 55, have started taking daily calcuim. I take 600mg twice a day, which is the recommended amount.

that is really amazing

you must lead a very safe life, or at least have extraordinarily hard bones;)

[sonofslim]

has anyone else who's had more than one break experienced this: you break a bone, so you know what it feels like; and the next time you do it, you just KNOW right away?

when i broke a wrist for the second time, i just knew the feeling; it wasn't even in my arm, but like this all-over sensation that said "you have just sustained a not-insubstantial injury."

i was home from college over a break, and i walked home and told my folks i'd broken my arm and needed to go to the ER. it was a weekend and no one in my family felt like driving to the hospital, and they kept telling me it was just a sprain or something. i had to raise a serious stink to get to the hospital, but once i was there and the x-rays proved me right, everyone was rightly apologetic. yeah! TOLD you so, family!

[mrjamin]

Originally posted by sonofslim
"you have just sustained a not-insubstantial injury."

isn't that just a 'substantial injury'? ;)

I know what you mean though, very true

[sonofslim]

Originally posted by mrjamin
isn't that just a 'substantial injury'? ;)

yeah, but i'm totally the kind of guy who starts thinking in double negatives when a simple "AAAAAGH!" would do.

[Raid]

Originally posted by kaosfere

I felt slightly better for a few seconds, until I realized my hand felt odd. Looked at it, and it was practically folded in half. In that strange hyper-lucid state of mind you have just after you suffer a major injury, I thought, You know... that's going to hurt pretty bad right... about... NOWWWWWWWWWWW.

:) I totaly know what your talking about I did the same thing with a knife. I was cutting into a ham roast (sideways, not down) and the knife slipped and went straight into my left index finger right at the big knuckle. I remember looking at it and thinking "oh that looks bad, funny it doesn't ... OWWWW"

I had my jaw broken when I was 17 (surgicaly) and was on liquids for three months... I'm now a connoisseur of baby food, and meals you could eat through a straw. :p Other than that no broken bones

[jayscheuerle]

There was that guy's jaw during a bar-fight...

A running-back's clavicle...

My karate instructor's rib...

The fingers of that dude who kept pawing my wife...


I didn't find any of the breaks painful... :cool:

[cb911]

jayscheuerle, that sounds like the best ways to be breaking bones. :D but i still can't say i've broken that many bones. :p

[TEG]

Of course...

My Left Wrist - Durring Morning Recess in 2nd Grade, fell off the side of the slide on the "big toy"
My Right Wrist - Durring Morning Recess in 4th Grade, slipping on Ice, in an area of wood chips, while wearing cowboy boots (With no Traction)

And Probabily most of my toes, I have the habbit of kicking the corners in my house while walking, and it hurts!

TEG

[parrothead]

Some jerk hit me from behind in football way back in highschool. I my ankle totally dislocated and my fibula broke. My foot was actually pointing backwards when it happened. The first doctor that looked at it said I was very close to getting my foot completely ripped off. Luckily I had hightop shoes laced up, an ankle brace, and athletic tape bracing it. Ended up having a 6 inch stainless plate and 8 screws put in. Sure is a pain while going through airport security. Everyone thinks I have a weaopon under my pant leg.

[bcsimac]

I broke my right index finger in jr. high blocking a shot where I probably shouldn't have had my hand in the way in the first place. It was a way cool stuff job, but it resulted in my finger getting bent back and rammed into the wall. I broke my middle toe playing basketball in dock style shoes.....I couldn't afford basketball shoes and was desperate to play ball.....dumb move I got my toe caught in a crack in the black top and went down hard and busted my toe in the process. This was went I was really addicted to basketball and couldn't even take a day off from it.