Broken Bones

[jhayx7]

Not sure if we have ever had a broken bones thread before but I'm bored so lets discuss.

Mine in order of first to last:

Left middle finger - Slammed it in a car door. Crushed the tip. Nail is still deformed.

Left wrist - Was helping load lumber into a kiln while wearing flip flops. My flop got caught while backing up and I fell backwards, tried to catch myself but my wrist broke and shoved it over my arm.

Right pinky toe - Playing with my niece, we were kicking a baloon back and forth. I had her back up and I tried to kick it as hard as I could to her across the living room.. Four of my toes connected with the baloon, one of them connected with the wooden chest. Hopped around for a couple of weeks.

Left ring finger - Asshole brother threw a football as hard as he could and it hit perfect on the end of my finger. Fractured it.

Right hand - Did an endo on my mountain bike, tucked into a roll but my clipless peddles yanked me back.. Hit on my right hand.. Had to learn how to do everything with my left hand for a while which sucked.

Nose - Got into a fight.

 

[shocksyde]

Wrist - Playing goalie in soccer, tried to change direction and lost footing, fractured wrist trying to catch myself

Fingers - Basketball has been unkind to me

 

[Ns1]

none

have never been to a hospital for personal injuries

 

[Linflas]

Left and right arms at the same time in 6th grade. I ran into a wall.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
none

have never been to a hospital for personal injuries

similar. i've had stiches once on my head

 

[TallBill]

Fractured Left pinky - Diving playing volleyball

Stress fracture on right foot - Over time, basketball

Cracked rib, right side - James bond rolls

The rib probably hurt the most.

 

[Lola]

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none *knocks on wood*

 

[Homerboy]

pretty much all my fingers - countless ways countless times.
most my toes - countless ways countless times.
Right wrist - falling out of tree, then a few days later slipping on ice and crunching it (moved growth plates, surgery etc)
Right wrist (again) - High school, running backwards stretching out. I proceeded to then partake in a 10mile recovery run that day too. Needless to say it was THROBBING a bit.
Left wrist/lower thumb/palm - skiing in Jackson Hole. Within 2hrs of reaching hotel. I wasn't going to waste the trip so I went to nearest drugstore and bought as much medical tape as I could. Every morning I'd tape it up like a boxer with my hand in the shape of holding the pole. Was a painful, but enjoyable trip for sure.
Broken Nose - dog bit me.

 

[Cellulose]

Similar to TallBill - decided to jump out of the golf cart I was driving and do a commando roll - except I forgot to roll...

 

[olds]

Ankle - ladder
Leg - bicycle
Collarbone - football

Tore up left knee - 4 wheeling
Tore up right knee - football

 

[NuclearNed]

Skull fracture - don't know how it happened, Dr. discovered it in an xray years afterwards

Broken nose - also don't know how it happened, but it was when I was real young

Index finger, right hand - a passed football bent it sideways, chipped the bone at the joint

Tailbone - never treated, happened during a sledding accident

Ring finger, right hand - stuck my hand in a free-spinning hand crank (to stop it spinning)

Bone on side of left foot - don't know, never treated, hurt like crazy for a long time

various teeth - chipped doing who knows what

left elbow - hit my elbow of the bench while recently doing an ab exercise, chipped the bone

 

[Old Hippie]

Left Leg- Both bones broken from a car wreck @1980.....That was painful!

Fingers- Probably 7 outta 10...I was a Millwright for over 30 years...You'll have that.

Ribs- Broken on the Magnum coaster at Cedar Point in it's first year. No lap bars, no brakes, and very loose seat belts. WoW, what a ride! :thumbsup:

 

[FoBoT]

null

sprained my ankle once

 

[Unheard]

Ulna, Radius, and Clavicle 2x

Most recent was the 2nd break of the clavicle. Was playing hockey, went to chase the puck behind the net, lost my edge on the crossover, and slammed into the boards with my right shoulder. The other 3 breaks happened at different stages of my childhood.

 

[Kelemvor]

Left collarbone during a motorcycle + gravel mishap.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Nearly broke my left wrist while sparring a few years ago (blocked incorrectly). At first I thought it was broken but I could still move it a bit so it was okay. It did swell horribly though. My watch wouldn't fit for two weeks.

Nose - kinda. My teacher was demonstrating a kick on me and accidentally hit me in the nose. There was a huge "CRACK" sound and then my nose began gushing blood, and looked extremely crooked in the mirror, but when I went to the doctor that night and got it x-rayed it showed no fracture, so I guess it just got bent? It's still a little off-center.

Dunno if we're counting other people or not, but I broke some kid's ribs at a tournament once.

 

[Safeway]

Left collar bone.
Left collar bone, again. This time it was a compound fracture.
Broken small toe.
Broken ribs.
Broken wrist.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Left collar bone.
Left collar bone, again. This time it was a compound fracture.
Broken small toe.
Broken ribs.
Broken wrist.

Dude... stories? They're what makes the thread interesting!

 

[Aikouka]

My left foot's pinky toe... I was in my room and realized I left a hot dog on the foreman... running out to get it, my foot hit the leg of a chair right between my pinky toe and whatever they call the toe by it . I was hopping out there, but I still got that hot dog!

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Knobjockey
Similar to TallBill - decided to jump out of the golf cart I was driving and do a commando roll - except I forgot to roll...

Hahaha, at least I'm not the only Dumbass around

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Left collar bone.
Left collar bone, again. This time it was a compound fracture.
Broken small toe.
Broken ribs.
Broken wrist.

Stories:

Left collar bone #1: I was seven years old and I fell off of a top bunk onto a metal object. Bam, broken collar bone. It is fairly painful.

Left collar bone #2: I guess the collar bone never healed fully ... if you ran your hand over the bone, you could feel a lump where the original fracture was. Well, this time, it was in the middle of a BMX race. I somehow flew and hit a metal pole right on my collar bone. Further, I was wearing full pads, but somehow the pads scooted off my shoulder. It was a compound fracture, meaning that the bone protruded through my skin. I don't remember much of it, as I was knocked out cold.

Wrist: Happened at the same time as above, at the BMX race.

Small toe: Stubbed my toe while running around barefoot on the corner of a TV.

Ribs: Biking accident again, the handlebars caught me when I fell.

 

[Azraele]

Undiagnosed, so I don't know whether it was broken or not, but I decided to play football bare footed. I tripped over a tree root and my pinky toe got messed up. It swelled up and turned pretty colors, and when I went swimming some time afterward, the toe felt disconnected.

Non-broken bones, but still owwies (also un-diagnosed):

Finger in basketball.
Knee playing touch football with my brothers. I got tackled as I went for a touchdown and messed up my knee. I finished the game, then went grocery shopping. I got laughed at because I had to lean on the cart to hobble around. Dunno what I did it it, but it felt pretty twisted out of wack.

One more, this was a work-related mis-hap.

I was working in a Wal-mart bakery at the time. I was carrying a box to the deli (it had been on the bakery pallet by mistake) and I slipped on some wet floor. I did a face plant into the steel dishwasher grate. My jaw swelled up pretty badly, and I looked like I'd taken one heck of an uppercut. I was sent to lunch, and they only allowed me to go home after I finished my work.

 

[weeber]

For some reason, I seem prone to head injuries, probably because I'm a clutz:

2 skull fractures - In 5th grade, fell off my bike and got 2 skull fractures and a contusion of the right side of the brain.

Upper jaw fracture - In high school PE I took a softball to the face. Split my upper lip through-and-through and broke of a piece of my jaw that held two of my teeth. It didn't knock my teeth out, because they were still attached to the bone, but the bone got pushed further back in my mouth. Amazingly, the oral surgeon simply used his thumbs to put the piece of bone back in place and the teeth recovered fine (no root canal or anything).

For a while I was afraid my parents were going to force me to wear a full-face helmet for day-to-day life.

 

[deerslayer]

I have no idea how, but I have never broken a bone. As accident prone as I was as a child I don't know how I came out of it with no broken bones.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: Safeway

Originally posted by: Safeway
Left collar bone.
Left collar bone, again. This time it was a compound fracture.
Broken small toe.
Broken ribs.
Broken wrist.

Stories:

Left collar bone #1: I was seven years old and I fell off of a top bunk onto a metal object. Bam, broken collar bone. It is fairly painful.

Left collar bone #2: I guess the collar bone never healed fully ... if you ran your hand over the bone, you could feel a lump where the original fracture was. Well, this time, it was in the middle of a BMX race. I somehow flew and hit a metal pole right on my collar bone. Further, I was wearing full pads, but somehow the pads scooted off my shoulder. It was a compound fracture, meaning that the bone protruded through my skin. I don't remember much of it, as I was knocked out cold.

Wrist: Happened at the same time as above, at the BMX race.

Small toe: Stubbed my toe while running around barefoot on the corner of a TV.

Ribs: Biking accident again, the handlebars caught me when I fell.

That lump is actually part of the healed bone. It is called a bone callus. It's a mass of calcium that builds up around the bone protecting it while it heals. (At least thats what my doc has told me for both times I broke mine.)

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