Anyone ever broken a bone?

EmilyRocks

EmilyRocks

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I am starting this because I got out of a chair and twisted my wrist a little and it hurt really, really bad in one of the places I broke it 2 years ago.
(I did a backhandspring on a hard surface and broke my arm in 2 places really close to my wrist) I had a buckle fracture and a tiny crack. Every once in a while I'll do something totally innocuous and it hurts!

Oh and I broke my nose when I was in college.

So, I'm wondering, has anyone ever broken a bone? How'd you do it?
 
When I was 9, I was at some sort of picnic, and a bunch of us kids were running around on one of those big wooden Jungle Gyms where you can climb on, etc. We ran past one of those little fireman's poles where you can slide down to the ground, and I ran into this big kid in front of me.

The force knocked me off the firepole thing and I landed on my right arm, right by the wrist, breaking both bones. I don't remember any thing before or since hurting that bad. I didn't start crying, I started Screaming it hurt that bad. When we went to the ER, they actually had to put my arm in a temp cast, and set it in the morning while I was out under anasthesia because it was too much for me. Then, afterward, my arm was in a cast for 8 weeks.

That was over twenty years ago, but I still remember that, because of how horrendous the pain was. I never knew it was possible to hurt that bad. Thankfully, I don't have any residual after pain.
 
In 4th grade we were playing soccer, I was playing in net...when I reached down to pick up the ball to toss it out, my classmate went and kicked it at the same time...which resulted in two broken fingers. I've dislocated both my knees several times, but I don't know if that would be considered actually breaking something, but the pain was unbearable all the same.

My father fell from a ledge that was about 10 feet high, breaking both arms, but the nut got up and continued to work the rest of his workday with broken arms...I still don't know if he was tough to work through the pain or extremely stupid for not going to the hospital when it happened.
 
The first year I went snowboarding, I managed to break my tailbone trying to slow down from an immense speed. I landed in full speed on a piece of ice right on my tailbone. I couldn't move for 10 minutes and felt the pain all the way to my neck. I kept boarding for the rest of the week, untill the last day when I tore a muscle in my abdomen. I was rushed to the hospital where they took x-rays. One one of those, you could see my tailbone. The doctor was like, "Hey, does your tailbone hurt? 'Cuz that one is broken." :p
This was 6 years ago, and I still can't sit on a chair for an entire hour without pain. :borg:
 
I've broken two bones. When I was 3 I fell out of my crib and broke my collarbone. The reason I fell was I was wanting the drink of water that was on the dresser or so I've told. I don't remember the incident as it was many many years ago :)

The second time I broke a bone was when I fell of a small ladder. I broke and dislocated a bone in the baby finger on my left hand. Every once in a while the second knuckle bugs me as that was were the damage was done but other than that I have no problems.

I have also dislocated my right thumb. I did that in high school while playing volleyball in gym. See I told you playing sports was dangerous :) Much better being a spectator :)
 
Came close in high school gym class. Landed wrong doing a vault. Teacher was there and couldn't figure out how I didn't break the ankle. It did get me out of gym for a few weeks though. :lol: About 8 years ago I almost did it again to the same ankle tripping over one of the kids balls in the basement. :scream:

My brother broke his wrist in jr. high. He got mad at one of his friends and took a swing at him. His friend ducked and he hit the concrete wall behind breaking his wrist. :(

I'm surprised that neither of the kids (ages 13 and 10) have broken a bone. Victoria has broken the same tooth 4 times now. We have to wait until September to get the latest one fixed.

Susan
 
I've never broken a bone
But i overstretched few ligaments :( both ankles, both knees, wrist....
torn meniscus included which hurts badly
 
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Surprisingly, I've only barely broken my pinky toe. I think I was in 6th grade and I ran into my couch. (No, not some fabulous sports injury).

I trip and fall and run into things on an hourly basis(no joke). I can't even get used the location of the furniture in my own house...I think it's all strategically placed to make sure I run into everything! :shifty:

It's no big deal at home, but it's really embarrasing in public, because people always stare and I can tell they're thinking, "How did she trip over that??" :wtf:

If it's there, I will trip over it.....never fails....:rolleyes: And I've never gone a day without bruises everywhere!

Good thing I was never too into sports, I would be laid up in a hospital by now!!
 
I think I'd trip over a hair glued to the floor if it was there. :rolleyes:

I've broken 4 toes, one of them twice - yeah - couldn't decide if I'd done it properly the first time. :shifty:

I was lifting a chair off a desk and the leg got stuck behind it. Instead of lifting the chair up, I pulled it forward, toppling the desk forward and the edge of it smacked down on the end of my foot. It hurt. A lot.

The one I broke twice got beaten up by a tin of something or other that fell out of a cupboard when I opened it. I have no entertaining accidents, just embarrassing ones lol. :D
 
I have broken 1 bone at the back of my right hand, fractured it in three places and cracked a bone in my wrist. All of these injuries happened within a year of each other.:)
 
I broke the last bone in my right foot, essentially the one used for balance. I was in a musical three years ago and was walking down the stairs to my place to go and and my shoe slipped on the old tile. My friend was freaking out and said she would go on in my place and we'd explain later. I was so stubborn because my mom was there that night I went right on. Well I was stubborn about going to the doctor and walked on it for 17 days (not recommended) so now I have a permanent screw in there. Not fun with metal detectors at airports. :lol:
 
My first broken bone was from when I was 9, I broke two fingers when I fell off a swing at school. When I was 16, I was riding my horse when he got spooked and threw me off, I dislocated my shoulder and broke my collar bone.
 
I haven't (except maybe an undiagnosed toe or finger), but I've sprained my ankle too many times to count. I fall a lot too, Yoshi! My friends think it's hilarious. :rolleyes:

Um...I fell running across the lobby in the bank once and landed under the check desk with my skirt nicely splayed out around me.

I fell in the rain outside the IU Auditorium while carrying a giant Blue's Clues suit. The reason I got hurt so bad is because as I fell I was trying to keep it up off the ground so I wouldn't be charged extra for cleaning!

I fell out of a booth at O'Charley's and again, landed with my skirt splayed out around me.

I fell down the stairs in my house last summer and only stopped because the wall at the bottom got in the way of my head.

I slipped on a Dorito at the grocery and fell.

I tripped while walking to a John Mellencamp concert. Tore my knees up and sprained my ankle and had to go to the medical tent.

But everyone's favorite is when I went on a solo trip to Wyoming and on the very first day fell getting into a raft and landed on a stranger's lap, then spent the next three hours of the rafting trip trying to convince Andy, the guide, that "Oh yes, I'm fine" as my ankle swelled to three times its normal size!

I couldn't hike much on the rest of my trip, since I know that bears and cougars always go for the weakest of the herd, and I was certainly that with my bandaged ankle and my limp! :lol:

By the time I got home my foot and all the way up to my knee were all shades of green, black, purple, and yellow. My friends said it looked like a corpse's leg and I should have a toe tag on it! :lol:
 
Age seven, I fell out of a giant tree in the park. It was real tall and I'd gotten myself stuck up it trying to climb higher then my friend (there's that competitiveness getting me into trouble again). I did win, I got the the very top branch.

But then I fell. :(

Amazingly, I broke only my little finger :lol:. Still to this day don't know how I managed it. I mean, really, I should have broken much, much more.

I remember trying to convince my mother I only hurt my finger because I could fly... Fun times.
 
I was flung off of a merry-go-round and landed the wrong way on my foot, twisted my ankle, and broke both leg bones. I pulled my ankle joint apart in the process and had to have surgery to screw things back into place.

I was 21 or 22 at the time. Yeah, I felt *real* smart trying to explain this in the emergency room.
 
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