Okay, how many of you have broken/fractured bones? What did you break and how did it happen? How long did it take to recover? I've come close, but never actually broken any bones.
Never broken any normal bones, but teeth are sort of bones...I passed out in the shower when I was a kid and smashed two teeth in half. Luckily they were baby teeth so the adult ones just replaced them anyway with no negative consequences. My mouth was in excruciating pain for days when it happened though.
Broken my ankles and wrists on a few different occasions. Don't remeber the circumstances from each, but I know one wrist injury was when I fell while rollerblading at a rollerblading rink party for a friend.
Dehydration and the heat from the shower making it worse is what I assume it was, never really found out.
I have fractured multiple bones more than once, usually from an autistic meltdown. Once I snapped my left scapula in half, I dumped a bike at 40-45 MPH due to a catastrophic flat because the shop that I paid to change the tires did it wrong. I had to sleep sitting up for about a month and it took 6 weeks before I could pick up my daughter again. Once a man attacked me and tried to kill me, beating me with a board. That broke my jaw in a couple places. It took a year to stop hurting constantly and healed crooked so I have had trouble chewing ever since, my jaw is displaced and twisted a little. Also broken teeth. I fainted after getting up too fast when I was 12 and landed wrong and it broke one of my front teeth. 4-5 years later the temporary cap was replaced with an implant. When I was 25 my spouse beat me and it broke my jaw where the implant was. I had to have a bone graft a couple years later to fix it.
Never broken a bone and the luck seems to run in the family - my mum has never broke a bone either in 50 years and my grandmother (her mother) made it to 71 before she broke anything (thankfully she was fine). I am picking up a few more injuries these days though, I don't know why as 18 is young!
I broke my nose by looking back while I was running and slamming into a tree last year. It was so bad I has to get surgery so that I didn't have breathing problems later in life.I had to weqar a cast on my nose for a month but I was fine after that. I do still have a scar though!
I have received fractures twice. First when I was in 8th grade I got my left wrist bone broken while playing at school year 1991. Got plastered for 40 days. Second when I was in grad second year. I used to be extra fan and enthusiast for FM radio reception which didn't cover my area under its broadcast range. In order to raise the antenna wire as high as possible to increase signal strength I took a ladder and tried to go high as possible. Ladder slipped and I fell on cement floor got my left elbow fractured. I still remember that day with date it was 25 December 1997. Again plastered for 40 days.
I have never broken a bone and neither has anyone in my immediate family. My brother did have to get stitches after an elbow to the face during a basketball game. The worst injury I had was bashing my bottom four adult teeth out on the metal bar handle of a seesaw. I was eight and the resulting hours at the hospital were traumatising. They shoved needles in my mouth and then tried to take a mould for a tooth cast. They decided to finish up the next day and the next morning said they had to redo the needles. I flat out refused. I ended up in the children’s ward I was starved for a few hours and had a numbing cream put on my hand. They knocked me out and I woke up with the cast on my teeth. Why hadn’t they just knocked me out the previous day and skipped the torture session with the mean doctors who were terrible with kids. I usually got knocked out for regular dental procedures like fillings anyway. My mother think my jaw was broken then and I don’t remember an x ray being taken but I’m sure a dentist would have mentioned it.
Oh let’s see... Cracked skull from a color guard rifle at practice Broken collar bone from a color guard flag Fractured collar bone (the other one) from a car accident Fractured left upper arm from the same car accident Broken right forearm from a different car accident Broken various fingers for various reasons Broken left wrist twice from hockey Cracked ribs from there previously mentioned two car wrecks Cracked ribs from a color guard rifle at final’s (and still finished the show then cried from pain) Fractured leg bone from one of the previously mentioned car accidents And one broken toe from a tuba being dropped on it That’s how it goes I guess.
Ankle when I was a kid (doing one of those “don’t try this at home” foolish things). I used to be able to sense changes in the weather by the way the healed bone would throb. (That went away after several years). I was on crutches for what seemed a long time, lots of friends signed my cast. Ribs - several, from an accident. I think I was out of work for a few weeks.
So neither car accident was my fault. The color guard people were on the wrong dots (so completely their fault). Most of the fingers were either completely my fault or partially. The toe was definitely my fault though. I shouldn’t have been trying to move the tuba wearing flip flops. It was in a hard case so it was extra heavy.
Doctor called it my hip, basically my upper leg. It happened when I got hit by a car three years ago.
PatrickUK.....I did pretty well until I was an adult. My first broken bone was the right hand when I was about 35 years old. After that was a rib on my right side. Those were both pretty insignificant. The worst was just two years ago when I passed out and fell, twisting as I went down. I dislocated and broke my left ankle and broke my left leg. That was more serious and I ended up in a cast for eight weeks...don't want to do that again! .....David