have you ever broken your leg or ankle?

[dohyun]

sitting here eating mcdonalds and drinkin a pint of guniess extra stout.
Its the best i could grab at the convenience store.
lousy crutches and cast.


How DID you break your leg and how did you pass the time while it healed? I feel like a bum not doing being able to do anything.

 

[jlee]

I haven't broken a bone (yet, anyway)..but ATOT and online gaming would be high on my list of timeburners.

 

[spherrod]

movies, books, games? Catch up on the things you normally don't have time for.

 

[Captante]

Broke my right ankle pretty badly just by stepping in a hole hidden by some grass in my friends back yard ... lots of drugs for the first two weeks or so then crutchs & eventually a walking cast got me around, albeit very slowly!
Just be really careful about any hopping around you do on your good leg ... I ended up doing more long-term damage to my left knee by being lazy with my crutchs!

 

[Linflas]

I broke both of my arms at the same time in 6th grade. Running around with 2 casts was a PITA.

 

[blert]

Broke my leg hiking.

For boredom: read, neff, play lots of video games, go to gym and do LOTS of upper body exercises, and most importantly limit yourself on food if you are not active- you'll be a fatazz before you know it.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Well, I never broke my ankle, or leg; but I did have achilles tendon surgery, and was bed ridden for 2 weeks. The way I passed the time was a) a laptop in bed with me, and b) I bought all 20 James Bond movies, and watched them.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: dohyun
sitting here eating mcdonalds and drinkin a pint of guniess extra stout.
Its the best i could grab at the convenience store.
lousy crutches and cast.


How DID you break your leg and how did you pass the time while it healed? I feel like a bum not doing being able to do anything.

Depends on the break, if there was ligament or tendon damage, if the break was clean or not, and most importantly which bone was broken.

broken kneecap, didn't know at the time, it healed offskew
broken right ankle, micro-fracture around the talus bone, plus ligament damage to 2 of the 3 major ligaments (healed after a long time. Only slightly off skew. (Healed after 4 months)
torn ligaments in left ankle 2 of the 3 major, no break though, so it is fine. (Ligaments torn, so never healed, but did exercises and strengthened ankle)

most of the injuries are due to basketball. Some are do to being "adventurous" as a kid.

 

[BigJ]

Haven't broken anything, but I have torn my MCL/Mensicus in my left knee, and then 10 weeks later wound up tearing the MCL, PCL, and ACL in my right knee.

Between the physical therapy, drugs, and going to the gym (extra rehab) I mostly slept, went to school, and read.

 

[Gibsons]

When I had knee surgery I went to the movie store and rented about 6 movies. Pop a vicodin, get the leg elevated and iced; start the movie. Just don't lose the remote.

 

[Scarpozzi]

No, but when I wrestled for my high school in the 90s I broke someone elses knee and snapped antoher guy's ankle in matches.

 

[NeoV]

I've sadly had 12 casts on my ankles, and another 2-3 times that should have been in a cast, and now my feet/ankles are sore getting up each morning, not looking forward to more problems as I get older...I added up the time I spent on crutches and it was pretty close to an entire year.

Do yourself a favor and don't be in a hurry to get up and running again - let it heal, do your rehab work, take care of it!

 

[tfinch2]

I've broken my ankle and foot.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Linflas
I broke both of my arms at the same time in 6th grade. Running around with 2 casts was a PITA.

Did you fall off a bike?

 

[thirdlegstump]

I broke my leg once in a skateboarding accident. All I did was invite all of my girlfriends and have them feed me berries and bjs. It was cool.

 

[Wnh5001]

its kinda odd, that i've been playing basketball the past 9 years, and have never even come close to braking an ankle, although i don't play very hard i guess, luck i guess. gl tho, that ****** will haunt u, my few friends have twisted their's and its annoying as hell they say.. wear ankle wrap/straps it might help.

 

[TheTony]

Broke and dislocated ankle playing football several years ago.

Was out of commission for 3-4 days after surgery, but after I got the cast, I was mobile again (albeit slow, with the crutches).

Watched TV, read, ate, slept during the recovery time.

 

[Hammerhead]

catch up on LOST season 1 and 2

 

[purbeast0]

I broke my ankle and sprained my other ankle at the same time last january. i came down on 2 seperate foots and rolled both my ankles. It was not fun at all.

I couldn't even use crutches for 2 weeks. I was literally pulling myself around on my ass with my hands.

Here's my thread about it.

after 2 weeks I would basically just go to work and come home and play halo 2. it was pretty depressing because it was dead winter too and i couldn't do anything. i started doing little workouts in my basement as well with dumbells because I couldn't stand being away from the gym for so long.

but yah it definitely blew.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Linflas
I broke both of my arms at the same time in 6th grade. Running around with 2 casts was a PITA.

Did you fall off a bike?

I could only wish...I ran into a wall.

 

[astrocase]

Spent 3.5 weeks in the hospital in traction. Had half a body cast on for an entire summer. I think it was 3 months in fiberglass.

Pass the time? Cry. I was 7 and couldn't go swimming when everyone else was and it was 100 degrees.

Pass the time? Itch. Oh my god it itched.

Pass the time? Get good on crutches. I was a little lighting bolt by the time I got my cast off. I could fly around the house with those crutches.

Story? I was racing on my bike and hit some sand. I flew off my bike, landed, bounced, and landed again. Broke my leg so bad that the doctor said it was like taking a green branch, breaking it, turning it over, and breaking it again. You know how it just kind of doesn't break in half but just hangs there? That was my leg. Still have part of the cast, the x-rays, and I think the crutches are buried in the attic at my parents place.

 

[Skiddex]

oh man, i think i have spent well over a year total on crutches. once you get comfortable on them, you can do anything you normally would have, so it just takes a couple weeks, plus you get huge arms! i was in physical therapy 4 times a week so that took up a lot of the time. otherwise, just go down to the grade school and kiddie clubbing with your crutch.

 

[walrus]

Crutches didn't slow me down at all. I was on them for almost a year and could go as fast and as far with crutches than before without.

 

[wheresmybacon]

I broke my tibia and fibula in an indoor soccer game in 1992. I was in a full-leg cast for 3 months, and wore a walking cast for 2 months after that. The full-leg cast was a bitch. I was an athlete, so the first thing I wanted to do was start training again?something, anything. Once I was in the walking cast, I took to the weight room for the first time in my life and loved it. It really helped my game and confidence.

Other than lifting, I played a lot of games on my friends? computers and consoles. NES Super Techmo. Earl Weaver Baseball on the Amiga. Star Control on the PC. Good times.