Broken bones. Ever had them?

[duragezic]

Broke my left arm twice before. I was like 6-9 so I don't really remember it.

 

[dennilfloss]

During my teen years, I broke my right tibia and fibula 3 times while playing hockey (actually once while sliding into the board and twice falling under my bigger opponents while fighting). The last fracture was compound, I laid on the ice and saw a very pointy yellowish and red bone sticking through my sock from under my shin pad. It didn't hurt too much until my dad jumped on the ice and straightened my leg after having removed my pad & skate and cut off my sock. When he pulled, I screamed from the pain and nearly fainted.

The angle was too narrow and unlike the two previous times, it wouldn't heal by itself. The bones slid by each other, so they rebroke it and decided to use technology. I ended with 2 plates and a few screws in my leg bones, and spent 6 months in full-leg casts. When they removed the cast for the last time (they did 3 times as my leg kept atrophying in them) , my leg was so skinny that it looked like scaly parchment over bone. Took me another 3 month to rebuild muscle so that I could walk properly.

In any rate, my shin bones stopped growing and my right leg is now 1" shorter than my left leg, so I have to wear orthopedic shoes in order to prevent limping and back pain (the pronounced curve in my backbone prompted a physician to measure my legs a few years later while searching for the reason for my severe back pain).

I also have a lower rib that was cracked 28 years ago and occasionally still feels cracked. :|

Roll The Bones (Rush)

 

[Swag1138]

Ive broken both my legs, each on different occasions.

Left Leg: A misstep helping my uncle move, fell out of the moving van, landed on my leg, broke my calf(sorry I dont remember the bone), Hairline fracture, felt almost like a muscle pull.

Right leg: Heading to my car getting ready to go to the mall. My cousins dog, that I had been dogsitting, had left a "suprise" on the floor. I found it with my foot, did a split/crouch thingie, landed on my right knee, shattered my femur. Hurt like a monkey with rabies

Now I have a metal rod in my right leg

 

[PCAddict]

I broke both sides of my collarbone when I was like 4 years old. I learned to unlock the basement door and I fell down the steps. Halfway down I rolled over the side and fell 5 feet to a cement floor.

When I was a senior in high school, I broke my left ankle during gym class playing basketball. I broke my right ankle when I was 24. I was walking home from a party (drunk) and fell into a big gaping hole that someone dug with a backhoe in the field next to my parents house. I heard two audible snaps, and it turned out that I broke it in two places. I didn't feel a thing, I was so drunk. I crawled home and passed out in bed. I woke up 3 hours later screaming like someone was murdering me. I didn't remember what happened.

 

[cwand]

ParasiticFly-

My thumb was also broke snowboarding.

 

[vi edit]

Dean, all things considered, I'd say that you were "lucky". I think that someone's chance of surviving a 5 story fall are very slim. Somebody was looking over you that day.

 

[crazyasaloon]

Compound fracture....
right leg-tibia and fibula
Saw an accident on freeway.
Stopped to render aid.
Another car came speeding by.
Hit first car ( I was rendering aid to).
Knocked bumper off of car.
Bumper went flying in air.
Bumper went crashing into my leg.
Driver kept going down freeway.
In hospital 10 days.
Cast for six months.
Moral of story....
See an accident....call police....
Do not park on side of Freeway!

 

[Robert01]

The first time I broke a bone was in the 5th grade. I was playing soccer, fell somehow. I think someone fell on my wrist, I'm not sure. Well anyway, I got up and noticed my wrist was hurting (happens all the time, usually I'll just shake it off). However the wrist was arched pretty badly. It was a pretty bad break.

The second time I broke a bone was just this last May. I was playing basketball with the guys, someone threw me a pass, and it hit my left fingers and went flying past them (hence, I missed the catch). Again, this sort of stuff happens all the time for me. However I look at my finger and I look at my pinky and notice that the top bone (where the fingernail is) is arched up about 45 degrees, and the nail caused a puncture, making it bleed a little bit. Went to the hospital later on, waited like 2 hours, got some X-rays, waited about another 45 minutes. Turns out that the top bone was broken, and the doctor said he never saw anything like that before. Turns out I would have to get it set back in place. However, the orthopedic was on call and would not be able to do it that night. I would be able to see him the next morning. They just put an aluminum slint on it, gave me a pill and sent me home. The next day I went to the orthopedic and he got down to business. He gave me about 4 shots around me finger (digital blocks), grabbed my finger and started to move it in all sorts of directions. (I should've said, "Pull my finger..&quot. Got an X-ray taken once again, but it wasn't quite straight. So he did it again, but by this time the medicine wore off a bit...and he even had some guy hold my hand so it could do more with the finger, it didn't feel good. Well, another X-ray should that the finger was okay, but it wouldn't be exactly straight, but it wouldn't be too noticeable either. The other alternative was to have a pin in the finger. I chose the later. The earliest I would be able to have the surgery was that night. GREAT. After all that, I would have to go into surgery. He gave me some orders for antibiotics, pain medicine. The surgery went okay .. but the pin was a pain in the ... booty. About a week later I started to notice my finger was getting black and swelling .. went to the hosptial thinking it was an infection (waited like 3 hours), turned out to be a big blister. Had the pin in for about 6 weeks, but I accidently ripped it out a couple of days before the appointment I was supposed to have it. Lost that finger nail as a result, too.

About two weeks later I was playing basketball again, almost broke my nose. Gosh, I need to learn how to catch.

 

[convex]

nope, don't intend to

 

[Toolman]

I've had 4 broken bones. I hate showering with casts on.

 

[Triumph]

no.

 

[Adul]

Ouch, how do some of you make it?

 

[sawdust]

left collarbone, football
right middle finger,baseball
two ribs, snow skiing

 

[Vikaden]

right leg-broke the tibula and fibula, both twice at the same time and they came out of my leg.
here is a pic of the aftermath you have to cut and paste the link in the same window for it to work

 

[hubbs]

I broke my nose once. Even though I'm not sure if you can break your nose because it's all cartilage I think?

But one time at basketball I dislocated my pinkie and it was going sideways almost touching my wrist

 

[thedarkwolf]

Another collar bone here. I broke my right collar bone when I was 17 riding my bike. My foot slipped off the pedel and over the handle bars I went. I landed on my head and right shoulder and snapped the sucker . Didn't even know I broke it till I went to pick up my bike and about passed out from the pain . I also am pretty sure I broke a bone in my hand but since I never went to the docter I am not totally sure. I know I could not really move my ring finger for about 3 weeks and I have a bulge on that bone in my hand now.

 

[Prong]

I broke my left arm (forearm) on New Years Day ('87 if I remember correctly). I don't care to repeat that experience. Do you know how bad it is sitting in the emergency room in excruciating pain while somebody that hurts worse is helped before you

 

[crYnOid]

i broke my right humerous (how ironic) just below the ball of my shoulder throwing a ball. The break caused my whole upper arm to go black because of the brusing

 

[Adul]

Has anyone broken their funny bone? :Q










j/k off course

 

[teckmaster]

I broke my middle finger playing football and I've cracked some ribs more than once. Hurts like hell when you breathe