Ever break a bone?

[MrScorpio]

If so, which one and how?

[JohnKleeb]

1. never!

not once.

[Maestro]

2. Yes

Avulsion fracture of pinkie requiring surgery; cause: baseball.
Two broken ribs, 5th and 6th; cause: falling 20ft out of a tree
Big toe; cause: dropping a chair on it.

[LSdemocrat]

No

[SendTheGOPPacking]

3. My toe!

OUCH!

[furrylitldevil]

24. me too!

broke mine against a fence post and my bicycle pedal...ouch!

[gyopsy]

4. Nope

But I never played sports much growing up.

[Droopy]

5. I broke my pinky on my left hand once.

It happened in a jet-ski accident. I was coming up to shore to beach the vehicle and I came in too fast. I ran it up the beach and right into a wall of sand in a head on collision. I also cut my leg pretty bad, too. The pinky didn't heal straight and it will forever be curved no matter how hard I try to straighten it.

[camero]

6. Nope

And I've been hit by a car twice. I did dislocate my shoulder once though. Does that count?

[DS1]

7. Nope, nor do I plan to

[kanrok]

8. Yep

Broke 3 fingers playing softball over the years (16 inch slow-pitch, no glove); broke my nose playing hockey, and broke a toe walking in the dark while drunk.

[oxymoron]

9. I broke my toe last week.

I'm still hobbling around.

[MrScorpio]

10. They say that everytime you stub a baby toe...

it's possible to break it.

If it's true, I've probably broke them about 50 times

[oxymoron]

13. I broke one of my middle toes.

My brother came over and used the vacuum while washing his car and left it in a weird place. I came downstairs in the dark that night and hit if full force. My toe was actually pointing straight up. I have probably broken mine too, but this is by far the worst.

[Orangepeel]

36. I currently have a broken baby toe

You'd know if you'd broken it! Unfortunately, the only thing that the doctor could do was tell me to put ice on it to keep the swelling down and tape it to the toe next to it.

[KDLarsen]

11. Once..

.. I broke my ancle - unfortunantly, it was at a Christmas Break indoor soccer tournament, so I got to hump around the christmas three on one foot. It can NOT be recommended :D

[Fleshdancer]

12. my pinky finger during basket ball practice

I was in highschool. It's funny how a finger can swell 3 times it's natural size and turn blue but the coach will still insist it's nothing.

[justgamma]

14. Both my ankles.

Not very exciting how. Stepped in a hole once, fell on the ice once.

[unblock]

15. nasal bones

my nose was smashed, my septum crumpled into an accordion zigzag. needed reconstructive surgery to breath through my nose. car accident. many other 'soft tissue' injuries from that car accident, but none of them bone-breaking.

[rwenos]

16. Right Fibula at Age 48

On Christmas Day 2001. On my daughter's Razor scooter. "Hey, honey, watch Daddy."

I heard it snap on the way down. The ER doc didn't even touch it or ask for x-rays -- he diagnosed it as he was walking up to my gurney. "Yeah, that ankle's broken."

Had to choose between 8 weeks in a cast and a surgically-inserted plate and pins, or 13 weeks and no internal fixation. Chose the 13 weeks.

And the boss told us he was closing the LA office two days later.

This was a "below average" experience.

[LibDemAlways]

21. I suffered that kind of snapping break too....ouch.

Broke my right ankle when my foot hit a piece of upraised sidewalk in a medical building parking lot. It was at a corner, and I was holding my three year old who had just had some outpatient surgery. A very terrible day. My orthopedic doctor didn't give me any choices. I had surgery the next morning and still have 16 pins in my leg.

By the way, the millionaire repuke who owned the building with the damaged sidewalk, could not have cared less about me - or the others who took falls at that corner. He did, however, pay attention to the zip code 90210 lawyer I finally hired.

[rwenos]

23. Sue the Bastard!

Way to go!

I didn't have anyone to sue, being about 80 pounds over the clearly-marked maximum weight for the Razor scooter.

Hope your baby was okay. Amazing how a parent will instinctively hold the baby up, and take the fall themselves.

[Syrinx]

17. All the way through

Oh, you mean one of my own? Just kidding.

Car wreck about 12 years ago. Broke my left arm all the way through, and a piece of it about the size of a nickel wasn't found. I guess some dog got lucky. :silly:

Arm is held together with stainless steel.

[aquaman]

18. Nope....

Tore my ACL in my knee though. Hurt like a bitch and now have a couple of screws in my knee.

[kevinam]

19. yup, yup, yup, yup.

a femur, my fibula, my shoulder, and a tooth...probably a finger or two along the way...Kevin.

[pfitz59]

20. Three or four.....

Both radius and ulna, left wrist, fall from table. Two ribs, left side, fall from cliff at Sunnyside in Yosemite. Left thumb skiing at Alta. Thakfully I am right-handed.

[rustydog]

22. Wrist: fell out of a tree

collarbone: fighting over a girl!
index finger: caught in fanbelt
rib: filed to block roundhouse kick
asorted fingers: basketball games
index finger: throwing bad-guy to the ground

[mitchum]

25. Not any of my own

[kodi]

26. both ankles, clavical, hip, both wrists, jaw, nose, 4-5 fingers.

ankles....basketball

clavical...motorcycle

hip......car accident (got run over as a kid) 18 months in a wheel chair

wrists...football & basketball

jaw.....car accident.....thank god for the seat belt.

fingers.....basketball, wrestling and football

nose......football and fist fight......you should have seen him though

broken heart.....too many women to name

[neverborn]

27. Oh, not at all.

[bratcatinok]

28. Yes, several

3 vertebra in my neck, tailbone broken into 2 pieces, both pelvic bones - motorcycle wreck at age 16

broke a rib jumping out of bed

broke another rib leaning over a chair

3 stubbed toes at separate times = 3 broken toebones

[ashling]

29. Does it have to be my own, or can it be somebody else's?

:shrug:

[Exultant Democracy]

30. I have two broken fingers right now, but it is an awesome story.

The bar tender at my local Irish Pub is one of me best friends, he even lived with me for a while after he came over from Ireland before he found his own apartment. One of the things that he taught me was how to order a Beer Irish style, you say "Pour me a proper pint you prick."

So after a good night of pregaming at my place last Wednesday (St. Patti's day) I walk over to the pub, and when I see my friend I say "Pour me a proper pint you prick." and he start to pour me a Guinness because that is what I always drink, right as he starts to pour the Guinness I say "Not a Guinness, give me a Bass, now that is a Beer made in a real country."

After I said that he came around the bar, and we had a good old fashioned brawl, while two me in kilts played their bagpipes.

The next morning when I woke up, he was sleeping in the couch next to me covered in marker, and I had two broken fingers.

Go Irish.

[Samurai_Writer]

31. My right arm...

the second day of school in third grade. I took a spectacular dive off a runaway bike that went over a very sharp, rocky hill by the side of my house. Ended up having traction twice and being out of school for three months. My parents got a tutor for me, though, and when I went back, I was ahead of the class.

The thing I most remember is when I went back to school (Catholic school run by nuns from Ireland), my teacher was upset that I did not write CURSIVE on my lessons. Well, DUH, my right arm was broken and I had to learn how to print with my left. To this day I am now ambidextrous.

[Philosophy]

32. Finger and leg

Compound fracture of the tip of my right pinky finger making a tackle playing "Smear the Queer" after Sunday School in 6th grade. It never grew any more after that so it's about a quarter inch shorter than my left one now, and the fingernail grows kind of irregular.

Then I snapped the top off my left tibia when I slipped on some water on the floor while jumping up for a dunk in basketball practice in high school. The doofus assistant coach thought it was a knee dislocation and he wanted to try to "pop it back in", but I screamed for him to stay away from me because I could tell it was much worse than that because the injured leg was six inches shorter than my right one and there was a huge bulge in the side. The doctors had a hard time setting it - it healed like 7 degrees off from straight, and I can still feel a crack on the front of the bone when I run my hand over my skin there. Had to be in a cast for two months and it took about another six for me to be able to walk normally. Ended my basketball career, but I still made the track team a year later, so it's pretty close to being as good as new now.

[DancingBear]

33. Well, maybe just a couple

left ankle
right collarbone (twice)
right arm
left ring finger
nose (4-5 times)

Anyone else play hockey? :)

(not all from hockey, though - one collarbone was from playing football with my cousin and landing on a big rock, and the ankle was from skiing)

[bearfan454]

34. My left leg right above the ankle.

I was on a fishing trip with my 12 year old son at the time in Vermillion Bay in Northwestern Ontario. It was Eagle lake. They only had a radiophone and you had to be brought in by boat. I slipped and fell and he heard a loud snap. It was completely purple even in between my toes ! It fucking hurt like hell. There was no medical or starflight and I had to get my truck back to Tx. so I kept it on ice for 2 days and finished the fishing trip with him. I then had to drive my clutch 1990 F150 Ford back to Austin Tx. Every damn motel we stopped at we had to get a 2nd story room. It sucked. It still hurts real bad today when it rains or is real cold.

[jab105]

35. broke a kneecap....

it hurt so bad!!

[7th_Sephiroth]

37. both my legsd when i was 8 skatreboarding

first time i went up a half pipe

[terrya]

38. I fractured my right hip 7 years ago.

I was hit by a truck late at night.

I had to get a hip replacement as a result.

Terry

[Katha]

39. My left wrist

and I snapped it directly in two. I was twelve years old, running around, and when I slipped I put out my hand to stop myself. My entire body weight fell on my wrist. God, I can still remember how badly it hurt.

[bobthedrummer]

40. At my going into the Army and off to Vietnam party, before I was sworn in

I broke my left ankle on a 1971 type skateboard and never went to Ft. Campbell for basics nor Ft. Lewis for artillery training.
And because I wasn't present at the 4 a.m. swearing-in session, the government didn't pay for the medical expense.

It wasn't intentional, I had actually wanted to join the artillery in Vietnam-and to get away from everything at that time. A bandmate was shot and killed in 1970, and I was developing chronic phase alcoholism featuring functional blackouts then.

I've been in recovery from that since June 18, 1981.
Plus I've got permanent metal {a pin and a screw} in my left-ankle.
I don't run anymore.

[Bluzmann57]

41. Where to start?

In the beginning... ah well, I broke my left arm when I was about 7 by falling out of a tree, my collar bone when I was 10 by a chain coming off of a bicycle I was speeding along on, my right arm, orbital bone, and jaw when I was 19 by hitting a bridge; I swear it just jumped out in front of me, and have had numerous stitches and bumps too. Now I am older and wiser(?) so hopefully the broken bones etc, are over and done with.

[RebelOne]

42. Broke my ankle.

It was the time of platform shoes. I tripped on a step and ankle broke. Those shoes went into the garbage after that. And when I first moved to Georgia from South Florida, I didn't know to watch out for ice in the winter. Slipped on ice and cracked a bone in my hip.

[Kathleen04]

43. Nope, never have n/t

[RobinA]

44. Yep

Radial neck fracture, left elbow. I was ice skating. Feet went out from under me and I tried to save my back by bracing myself with my hands. My hands didn't make it to the ice, but my elbow did and caught the full weight of my body. Heard it snap. Went to the emergency room and had it X-rayed by a tech with major BO. It was a clean break. It hurt like hell and they weren't going to set it that night, so they said they were going to send me home with some pain medication. I thought, Oh, good, Percocet. They gave me one Percocet in a little envelope. By the time I got home it was 2 in the morning. I think I was asleep before the pill hit my stomach.

[Lorne]

45. Never.

I've been close on too many occasions, though.

[bikebloke]

46. Collar Bone

When I was five, I stopped the paperboy on his bike. My upper lip was split up to my nose. They were so busy putting my face back together, the broken collar bone went unnoticed until it was nearly mended.

[cmd]

47. left arm, skating; right arm, speed bump

It' s easy to explain the first one. I was a kid skating on the ice. The second one was embarrassing. I tripped over a speed bump.
I swear I wasn't speeding.

[1monster]

48. Just my skull...

Nothing major, except that I probably lost about half of my marbles. }(

I was about three and a half and was going down the basement staris which didn't have even a rail to hold on to, slipped and went head first on to the concrete floor from about two thirds of the way up.

My mother, just to prove to herself that I was not badly hurt, :eyes: made me walk back up the stairs.

A month or so later, my father put up walls on both sides of the stairs.

[HEyHEY]

49. Yeah cause the guy owed me money

badoom cha!