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Broken Bones

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coldmeat

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
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sprained my ankle once

same. Although there have been times where I should have broken something. Especially when I sprained my ankle. I should have broken my ankle or leg but somehow I didn't.
 

legoman666

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Dec 18, 2003
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Right pinky toe - Similar to stories above; was chasing sister through hallway and smashed my pinky toe into the corner. I broke the toe, split the toenail in half, and sliced off the tip of the toe. Yes, it hurt. Never went to emergency room or anything though.
 

destrekor

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Originally posted by: zerocool1
Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
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have never been to a hospital for personal injuries

similar. i've had stiches once on my head

yep. That's the extent of my 'serious' injuries. piece of glass lodged in my palm, required 9 stitches. got laid off that job after only working there 2 weeks or so. bastards. at least they paid the medical bills. :)

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Baked

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Dec 28, 2004
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I headbutted a car and passed out for a few days. Don't remember anything from the moment I left the house before the accident until I woke up in the hospital after the surgeries. So staples on side of skull + broken ribs. In addition, broken wrists from slam dunk. BMX accidents involving broken wrists, legs, and chipped teeth.
 

Hyperlite

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none... lots of sprains, my shins feel like washboards from various impacts, second joint of my middle finger on my right hand is a little crooked, not sure what thats from. I dislocated my shoulder once while wrestling with my cousin, but it popped back in almost immediately.
 

HannibalX

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All the fingers and knuckles in my right hand, on more than one occasion. My left wrist. My left ankle. All of the toes in my left foot.
 

KK

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Jan 2, 2001
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1 broken toe.
I think I may have cracked a rib last Wednesday. How do you know if you cracked one? I was leaning over into my jon boat to put the charger clamps one of the batteries, and its kinda a stretch, I was basically putting all my weight on lower right side rib cage against the side and all of a sudden something happened. Hurt like hell for about 15 seconds then subsided, and its been pretty sore since.
 

Dirigible

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Never broken a bone. Plenty of dislocations, separations, ligament and tendon tears, but never a broken bone.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: Ns1
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have never been to a hospital for personal injuries
Same here. I have been in hospitals already due to severe illness and surgeries though. The illness was when I was young, less than 5yrs old. High fever, and just drinking water made me throw up. My parents called the pediatrician, and she said that if I didn't get on an IV right away, I could die of dehydration by morning.

Anyway, no broken bones, and no stitches. The worst injury that comes to mind was when I slipped on a wet concrete floor a few years ago - the basement flooded with about 1" of water and I was walking too quickly. Slow reaction time apparently manifested itself, as I hit the ground flat on my back, my hands were still right in front of me; they never even moved to try to brace the fall. I had a coat with a hood on, which partially cushioned the blow of my head hitting the concrete. Who knows, maybe that prevented a concussion. I smacked a toe on a chair leg as that foot flew forward, I splashed my mom's PC with water (it was ok though), and lost some range of motion in my neck and back.
 

MrToilet

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I could have sworn I cracked my skull with my tennis racquet in high school going back for a topspin lob - I slipped and absolute NAILED myself smack in the middle of my forehead.

I laid there in a daze for like 20 seconds, I hear my dad (tennis coach) come running over. Worst headache of my life....and of course no broken skull - just a broken racquet frame, mild concussion. And I completely whiffed on the ball.

My doubles partner almost peed himself laughing so hard.
 

Scarpozzi

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Jun 13, 2000
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None, officially....

But I'm apparently missing part of my heel from some crushing injury I don't remember. I went in for an Xray after a serious sprain when I was 18 and found out.

My right thumb was cut badly (mangled) in a model airplane when I was in the 6th grade. Scare tissue prevents me from having full dexterity....but at least I have a thumb.


 

Canai

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Right wrist - snapped scaphoid in half bombing a hill on a skateboard, drunk @ 2am :D I'd made the run ~40+ other times without problem in the same circumstances, but I hit a random crack and went flying.

Nose - rolling down a hill in an innertube in highschool. It was fun as hell until the ground hit me in the face.
 

Eli

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Fractured my wrist in 4th grade, fell off the monkey bars.
 

MotionMan

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Left second toe - I was cleaning out closet in bare feet and was being handed a box with a tape recorder (like this one for you whipper snappers) in it when the box opened and the recorder fell out and landed, corner first, on my toe.

Considering I played little league baseball, three varsity sports in high school, intramural sports in college and law school and continue to play competitive basketball and softball into my middle age, I have been pretty lucky (though I did tear a calf muscle recently).

MotionMan
 

CorCentral

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I was 21 at the time and everyone told me to go to the hospital after the incident, but I did'nt.

Was playing frisbee inside a tennis court.... 1st mistake!
The frisbee landed on the other side of the net so I decided to jump the net and show off!.... 2nd mistake!

I caught the net with the bottom of my left foot and it slung me like a rubberband full force to the court w/ both forearms slamming down flat...... I saved my face.

Both my arms (forarm to bicep) were black and blue, and locked up for about 2 weeks in the same position that I fell. every day after that I could move them a little further. I'm 34 now w/ zero side effects.

I still don't know if I broke my arms.
What do you think?



Damn did it hurt though!!!
 

Stiganator

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Clavicle #1 - wrestling in HS for gym. The PhyEd teacher was the wrestling coach and had me wrestle the star wrestler who was like 40 lbs bigger. He had me on my side and kept driving until my clavicle snapped. I heard it, the other guy heard it (we were actually sorta friends) I didn't cry but I did complain. The teacher sent me away and said if I was going to be a baby I could go to the nurse. I told him to fuck off and I would. The nurse took one look at my then orange sized clavicle and sent me to the ER. Needless to say that teacher got his ass reamed by my absolutely furious parents. The guy was a real dbag. He later got caught sexing up the principals wife and another teachers wife during parent/teacher conferences in the school (separate occasions). Then finally they canned him a few years ago when they found out he had been making the prominent families in town with kids in sports pay big bucks (>10K) to have their kids start, so he could pay off his $1,000,000+ gambling debts.

Clavicle #2 and Shoulder - I was hit by a four wheeler going 40+ mph and I shattered my then just healed clavicle again and dislocated my shoulder. My shoulder relocated when a fell onto my back after flying through the air. I was right next to a shear cliff with a 50+ ft drop off into a empty quarry, so I almost shit myself flying through the air.

Not a broken bone, but traumatic since I was small. I was about 8 or 10 and the family when to a local state park. I was messing around by the ledge of a cliff and my brother fake pushed me too hard and I almost fell over, but my dad yanked me back by the shirt, and I landed flat on the ground, but my hand had landed on prickly pear and a bunch of spikes had gone all the way through my palm and out the top of my hand. Stung like a bitch.

Fingers - car doors, once an old table fell over onto a finger.

Brother - put a hatchet into his shin trying to split wood, he was a damn Life Scout! He should have known better, but he has 0 common sense.

A friend of mine-

Everything (literally, fractured skull, several vertebrae, crushed ribs, broken arms, hands, legs, hips, feet) - head on collision of him in a geometro vs a truck. Then to add insult to injury the ambulance got hit by a drunk guy head on! But he didn't sustain any additional injuries, I don't think the second accident was very bad. To add more insult to injury the doctors took off his casts too early and he rebroke his legs when he tried to stand. He laughs about it now, but he was in bad shape for 2 years or so.

Other people from my town that I didn't know-

-Arm ripped off in a combine.
-Leg ripped off in a power drive (hydraulic spinny thing on the back of tractors)
-Total body combine ownage, think Fargo wood chipper.
-Farmer was desiccated to death when a tank of liquid ammonia ruptured.
-Pulped by a train.
-Decapitated by an unmarked high fence on snowmobile, several of these actually.
-There was brutal murder once where the husband caught his wife cheating and killed the man and the wife and sliced them up and fed them to hogs. (this one was old school like early 1900s)

College - there is one every other year or so who cracks during finals and jumps off the bridge into the Mississippi, but its a long fall (150+ ft). My freshman year, a chick jumped out of the 9th story of a dorm and obviously didn't live, I walked by and there were hosing down the big splat zone.

 

imported_Imp

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Dec 20, 2005
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I'm indestructable.

Hit by a car, landed on wrist, only got sprained.

Dumped a motorcycle low speed, only road rash.

While relearning to ride bike, hit something, knee got rammed into break (thing that grips onto wheel), hurt like hell, but nothing broken. May have aggravated it recently though; whole leg is a bit sore after months of feeling fine.
 

NuclearNed

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May 18, 2001
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A few that are confirmed:
-teeth
-fractured my skull
-broke my nose (ok, so it's not a bone)

A few that I highly suspect (i.e. never went to the doctor but probably should have):
-fingers
-toes
-tailbone
-a bone in my foot that swelled and hurt for ages
 

alien42

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Nov 28, 2004
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never broken a bone but have had stiches in my chin 4 times.

i was run over by the Orkin man when i was two but nothing broke.