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Sprained ankle was I was a kid
Nose surgery too stop excessive bleeding
5 wisdom teeth removed
Hernia - before I had that done my right testicle was much larger then my left for a few months.
 
I've escaped any sort of breakages and surgery. I've been very lucky not to have either - particularly the lack of breakages as I was always up to stupid stuff, and was a right tomboy when I was a kid.

Somehow survived jumping off my mates bungalow roof repeatedly, jumping off a train while it was still moving (albeit slowly), falling out of trees, ending upside down in a hedge on my bike, etc, etc. Somehow through all that I've got a few scars, a dent in my head (fortunately under hair!) and had a lot of twists and sprains, but somehow no breaks.

These days I'm a bit less insane, which is probably a good thing. :)
 
I had grommets fitted in my ear when I was younger to treat Glue Ear.

Had my little finger relocated after bashing it out of place on somebody's head in a fight... I was about 13 at the time and screamed like a girl. :eek:

Hmmm... think thats about all though.
 
floriflee said:
How did you have all this breakage is such a short period of time??
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Well... the foot injury occured when a douchebag ran into me on his skateboard, and that tore my tendons taking some bone with it. The leg breakage occured when I rolled off a skateboard going down a half pipe. We really dont know how it happened as it was a clean fall and all. Guess im not going back to a skate park or getting on a skateboard. Ill stick to longboarding from now on!
 
It started with copper extraction when I was a baby. Mum left me in front of the coin jar and I ate too many.

Then I had a cyst cut out of my eye when I was five. That was my unhygienic stage, everyone's gotta go through it...

Then I dislocated my knee and have had a few key-hole jobs done, which are always fun.

And relatively recently I swallowed a pin by accident and had to have it removed (yes, they used a giant magnet, no joke).

Coming up is some heart surgery I've been avoiding. Meh, so long as I get ice-cream after, I don't really mind. :cool:
 
lets see,

stitches (30 back of head, 10 upper lip, 5 right eye, 5 left leg)
right hand broken (3rd knuckle)
right middle finger dislocation
various sprains and other dislocations (very minor)

various busted noses, and busted lips and other cuts scraps, strains.
 
Let's see...

-Tonsils removed at 2. According to my mother, I was a mess; I couldn't even breathe they were so inflamed. I remember getting there and that the OR seemed very out in the open to me. They told me I was going to be a pilot, gave me the little mask, and I conked out. Woke up and started yelling at th nurses for lying to me :eek: They also sent me home early because I was somewhat hyperactive...I err spent hours running up and down the halls with my mom running after me, pushing the IV.

-Broken arm at 5. That was pretty bad too. I fell off the slide at school on my head and had amnesia for a day or so (not full-blown, but enough that I had no idea what happened that day). They thought my bone had popped through the skin and had me in the OR, ready to cut me open and disinfect it -- then they changed their minds. But the arm had just about broken clean in half.

Strangely enough, I had been left handed up until that point (we were of course learning how to write, and I ate with my left hand, etc.) but since I broke my left arm, I switched to my right. Today, I write with my right hand, eat with my left, brush my hair with my left, brush my teeth with my right. It's sort of weird.

-Broken nose at age 5. Fell face first onto a basement floor. Bloody.

-This summer I'm scheduled to get my wisdom teeth out and get a deviated septum in my nose corrected (a deviation that resulted from the broken nose...we'd thought all these years I'd had seasonal allergies but it turned out it was the nose all along).
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Nothing yet, not even a broken bone. My most intense experience in a hospital was getting stitches from a dog bite when I was little (don't even remember).

Some major reconstruction planned for about a year and a half from now, been waiting a long time for this although the recovery will take quite awhile...
 
Two visits to A&E,
The first was a busted lip.

The second was a broken ankle.

For photos have a look here

A broken ankle, in three places, not sure which bone, but one of the ones going down into the foot, knocked a weird bit off too, like the actual bit that goes into the foot :(
Had three operations. One to put a plate and 5 screws in, then another cuz of the weird knocked off bit, which meant one more temp screw, and then 3 months later another op to remove that screw.
So now im left with 5 pins and a plate in my ankle. And 9 months later, its still not right.
 
I have had no surgeries or broken bones.

I have been stabbed in the hand (9 stiches)

I have had multiple concussions.

I have smashed my head on a car windshield (9 stiches)

I have had shin splints

I have scoliosis (nothing major enough to have surgery or anything)

I have twisted my ankle multiple times (thanks volleyball)

I am 19
 
At 6 months old I think I had to have my tear ducts cleared because they clogged.

3rd grade (8 yeas old I think) I buckle fractured my left wrist.

At 10 I had a funny cyst thingy (forgot the name of it) removed from my neck...twice because it grew back the first time.

At 15 I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed.

17 I had a wart frozen off of my foot.

That is it and I am 20.
 
2 C-Sections
4 wisdom teeth removed
1 lipoma removed


wow, there are a lot of accident prone people on Macrumors!
 
vniow said:
Nothing yet, not even a broken bone. My most intense experience in a hospital was getting stitches from a dog bite when I was little (don't even remember).

Some major reconstruction planned for about a year and a half from now, been waiting a long time for this although the recovery will take quite awhile...
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Reconstruction? Are you altering appearance to hide from the law?
 
Due to being born with a craniofacial syndrome, Treacher Collins Syndrome, I've had, oh, I guess twenty or more surgeries in my lifetime. Not all of them were due to that, though: along the way I had the "routine" appendectomy and tonsillectomy, too, and then about twelve years ago went under the knife for surgery on a herniated lumbar disc at L5-S/1. My most recent surgery, back in 2001, was to implant tiny screws on each side of my head in the mastoid process area so that a few months later I would be able to start wearing bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs). Pretty darned cool! That was one of the easiest surgical procedures I've had, too....in fact, I found it less traumatic than going to the dentist for a routine filling or root canal procedure.
 
I had no surgeries or broken bones for the firs 25 years of my life. 1 surgery after that.
 
broken bones:
Nose x 4
Jaw
cheek bones
Skull fracture from falling object
Skull fracture from axe in head
Ribs 4, and 3
Fingers , all except left thumb, and middle fingers
Toes, big toe on right, pinkies and fourth toes on both
right ankle x 4 , sprain x 8+ awaiting complete reconstruction surgery so I can walk properly
left ankle x 1
Back - lumbar 5 and sacrum fractured in two places
No long bones yet...

Dislocations:
right shouder - volleyball
right hip x 2 hit by car both times by same car exactly a year apart...
fingers
jaw

Surgeries
removal of adenoids - 1986
removal of tonsils - 2001 ( ouch)
reallignment on nasal bones
awaiting a few...

Ok that is it...
;)
 
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