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Post by fruitysuet on Jul 13, 2014 11:02:14 GMT
So if you have ever broken a bone, what were you doing at the time?
For me ... I was roller skating in Blackpool Tower, fell and broke my arm. Boyfriend at the time was very supportive and would sit and write out my essays as I dictated them (was in the middle of my A levels).
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Post by BarbaraUK on Jul 13, 2014 11:13:21 GMT
So if you have ever broken a bone, what were you doing at the time? For me ... I was roller skating in Blackpool Tower, fell and broke my arm. Boyfriend at the time was very supportive and would sit and write out my essays as I dictated them (was in the middle of my A levels). That must have hurt like fury but what a lovely boyfriend!  I've never broken a bone, up until now!, but DS made a complete mess of his right leg whilst ice skating at a local rink!! Maybe Brits should keep away from skates!!  Funnily enough, he was in the middle of A Levels too! |
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Post by deshacrafts on Jul 13, 2014 11:15:41 GMT
I broke my wrist the first time my boyfriend now my DH took me roller skating. I've also broken my leg twice. Once while carrying my 3 year old, I thought there was one more step before I had to step down...there wasn't. Two sprained ankles and one broken leg. Just recently I stepped off a patio into some grass and twisted my ankle so badly that my leg broke again. My family calls me "Grace".  |
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Post by pierkiss on Jul 13, 2014 11:21:01 GMT
I was chasing my 2 year old son at a park. He was running asking the edge on some railroad ties, so I was too. He jumped down, and I did too. I landed wrong on my ankle. There was a pop, and down I went. I had my first ambulance ride that day!  . Ankle was broken, but fortunately I didn't need surgery, and only had to wear a boot for about 6 weeks. And physical therapy. |
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Post by scrapaddie on Jul 13, 2014 11:30:24 GMT
I moved a chair forward. My toe just happened to be under the leg when I set down again.
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Post by jenjie on Jul 13, 2014 11:38:50 GMT
I broke my collar bone at snow camp when I tripped down the steps and fell hard into a wall. Broke my foot when I fell down the steps at home. Only I didn't realize it until sil pointed out that I kept walking on the side of my foot. I was a pea for the last break, when I fell down my girlfriend's front steps and broke my elbow. She was leaving her house to go out a few minutes later and found me laying in her front yard. That one messed me up pretty badly, I had a lot of ups and downs and spent 6 months in a cast. Doctors thought I might never regain use of my arm. Thank God there were no lingering issues. See the pattern? Steps are not my friend! |
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Post by lilacgal on Jul 13, 2014 11:53:57 GMT
As accident prone as I am, I haven't broken one of my own bones. I did break my sister's foot though when we were kids. She was sitting on a love seat with her legs propped up on the opposite arm. I asked her to move a few times so I could sit. She didn't move and I sat down anyway. I still feel bad about it!
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Post by lindas on Jul 13, 2014 12:12:22 GMT
I made it to the ripe old age of 60 then I fell on ice and broke my left wrist. I've always thought I could use either hand pretty well even though my dominate one is the left. Boy was I fooled! It was the most fustrating 8 weeks of my life. Luckily it turned out surgery was necessary like they first thought.
My my mom was 86 the first time she fell and broke her left arm just below the shoulder. 4 months later she fell again and broke the right arm in the same place and broke her pelvic bone.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 13, 2014 12:38:04 GMT
When I was 5 years old, I was riding on the handlebars of a babysitter's bicycle. (Isn't it a wonder any of us survived the laissez-faire parenting of earlier generations?)
My foot slipped off and when I went to put it back on the wheel hub, it slipped into the spokes as well. I was flung face-first onto the pavement breaking my nose and skinning my face, arms, and hands. Meanwhile my foot was pulled around through the fork that holds the wheel fracturing my tibia in two places and fibula in one. A neighbor had to cut me out of the bike.
I often marvel that I was a relatively girly-girl and yet had my share of accidents as a child, but my boys were wide-open and hardly had any. Thank goodness.
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Post by brina on Jul 13, 2014 12:48:31 GMT
A few minor breaks - hairlines - from sports, or slip and fall. The big break was my collarbone. I was skiing and it was a long sled ride down from the top of the mountain to the clinic. I have a plate and 6 pins in it.
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Post by conchita on Jul 13, 2014 13:03:20 GMT
I'm a badass and suffered injuries from participating in extreme sports.  Not really, it just sounds more exciting than what really happened! BOTH my pinky fingers were broken playing volleyball. Apparently I suck at volleyball. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 13:09:21 GMT
I broke my little toe rushing around with bare feet, I was running late and trying to do too many things at once. I somehow caught my toe on the frame of the kitchen door and bent it so far back it broke. It hurt like holy hell so I can't imagine how painful it must be to break an arm or leg.
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Post by mommaho on Jul 13, 2014 13:54:07 GMT
My middle name should have been Grace instead of Sue - Dust gets in my way and I trip!
7th Grade Gym Class in one of those lovely red one piece gymsuits - mandatory gymnastics going over the horse. My foot caught under the horse and I fell on my elbow - breaking my arm up by my shoulder. I think I was more embarrassed than hurt!
Walking and talking with my friend I stepped off a 2 inch curb and broke my ankle in front of the stadium where our DDs Girls basketball team was playing in the finals - again - embarrassed!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 14:25:03 GMT
I was vacuuming and simply stepped wrong and broke the bone in the side of my foot. I spent the summer in a cast that went from my toes (although my toes were "loose") all the way to right below my knee. I also had an infant to care for. Ugh! (and it was my right foot...my driving foot)
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Post by JustTricia on Jul 13, 2014 14:41:00 GMT
Soccer in gym class twice.
First in 7th grade when the gym teacher had the brilliant idea to have us play on the grass field even though it rained that morning. Slipped, fell backwards, and used my wrist to break my fall.
Second time Freshman year, soccer in the gym. I was 100 pounds and collided feet with a guy who was easily over 300. Apparently I did a lovely flip. An ice storm also started that day, so I was on crutches while the entrance to the school had wet floors for a week. Had my crutches go out from under me twice.
Oh, yeah, not a break but to continue why I think soccer is evil and gym teachers can be stupid ~ about a month after I was off crutches the gym teacher decides to have us play two person soccer on scooters. The square plastic things with four casters on them. One person was to sit on it, the other was to push. The one seated was supposed to kick the ball. I protested, but was told I'd get a 0 if I didn't participate. Honor student I was, I played, and ended up with a bruise on my thigh about 8" x 4" and deep. Other people had their fingers rolled over and bruised as well.
A couple months after that he had us play again. About five of us sat out and took the 0.
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Post by airforcemomof1 on Jul 13, 2014 14:58:50 GMT
May 18, 1969: 1 car auto accident-was thrown from car-ambulance wrecks on way to hospital-thrown off stretcher-broken back (probably in first accident). Had to be in a body cast for 3 months and then a brace.
May 13, 2014: Placed 3 large bags of potting soil in buggy at store-placed in trunk of car-removing from trunk at home and knew I had hurt my back really badly. Went to clinic one week later. Two or 3 days later went to ER. Fracture in back. Could have been from the lifting or could have been from the absolutely unbearable, hurt like hell, made me cry out in pain, muscle spasms. Still in pain and am going to try to see an orthopedic dr this week.
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Post by moodyblue on Jul 13, 2014 15:06:30 GMT
I had stopped in the hallway at school to answer a question from someone. When I turned to go on down the hall I rolled my foot and fell. Broke a bone in the side of my foot.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 13, 2014 15:09:04 GMT
Broke my right wrist while walking around after an ice storm taking photos. the X-ray looked like someone took a bite off my radius as a section of it was completely separated. Since the ice storm shut the town down there was literally one doctor and a NP at doctors office I usually go to and he didn't really know how to make a cast, so for the first 48 hours I had this cast that went all the way up to my armpit! It was ridiculously funny. I ended up needing surgery, I now have a metal plate and 6 screws in my wrist, but I bowl better than I did before!
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Post by Linda on Jul 13, 2014 15:46:39 GMT
I didn't break any as a child but that didn't continue into adulthood.
I've broken several toes over the years - mostly falling down stairs - and I broke a rib twice when I had bronchitis (yes, you really CAN cough enough to break a rib).
I had a stress fracture in my foot during Air Force ROTC training
The major break was my knee cap though - it was about a couple of years post-dislocation and I was still on crutches (I needed surgery but had a baby as a single mum and the doctor was waiting until he was more capable/older). I slipped on the garage floor bringing in bags at my mum's house and went down. It didn't hurt that badly (nothing like dislocation) so I decided to rest and elevate. An hour later I tried to stand and couldn't. I had a complete fracture horizontally across the knee cap
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Post by whipea on Jul 13, 2014 16:10:17 GMT
Let's see. At 4 years old broke the tip of my middle finger getting it caught in a bike chain, you know the sprocket by the pedals with the teeth where the chain turns. The bike was upside down and spinning the pedals.
Around 8 years old in a carpool situation with another child's parent, slammed my thumb in a car door and was too embarrassed to say anything so rode home for about 20 minutes with my thumb in the door. It was broken.
At 13, was at a very sketchy amusement park on a crazy ride. The kid in front of me slammed backwards as I slammed forward - fractured my nose.
Age 22 or so, broke my little toe almost off running through the house, it was hinging by the ligament, a bloody mess. Had two surgeries and a bone implant to save the toe.
Age 44 fractured both baby fingers at the same time. Did this about ten years ago riding a BMX bike on a dirt track (this was my hobby for a while) and went over a berm and crashed.
Age 46 or so stepped out my back door, rolled my ankle and ended up breaking my leg.
Age 54, carrying the laundry basket up the stairs, slipped and fell down backwards. Luckily a large dog broke my fall, she was not hurt but I fractured a rib - the worst pain.
I have had my fair share.
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Post by elaine on Jul 13, 2014 16:12:10 GMT
I broke my right wrist when my horse threw me when I was 10. It was one go the large bones, so I had a cast up to my shoulder for 6 weeks. When I was 14, I broke my ankle jumping off a wall. Cast up to my hip for 9 weeks. And then, of course, there is my current broken left wrist from falling off a curb while walking the dog yesterday evening.  |
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Post by smokeynspike on Jul 13, 2014 16:21:23 GMT
I broke both of the bones in my arm falling out of a lawn chair in the sixth grade. A week after getting my cast off, I broke both of them again. Six months straight in cast. It is how I learned to write left handed.
Melissa
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Post by katlaw on Jul 13, 2014 17:04:41 GMT
I broke my wrist when I was 8. I was on a Teeter Totter and the boy I was with was at the bottom, I was at the top and he got off. We were at the lake, it was bedtime and all the adults had golfed and drank beer all day so no one wanted to drive into the city. My wrist hurt but was not obviously broken so my dad put a tensor bandage on it and I went to bed. I woke up early because it was throbbing and it was hugely swollen. Into the city we went and it was broken in 3 places. That happened on the May long weekend and I spent the rest of the summer in a cast.  |
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Post by jenjie on Jul 13, 2014 17:55:45 GMT
I broke both of the bones in my arm falling out of a lawn chair in the sixth grade. A week after getting my cast off, I broke both of them again. Six months straight in cast. It is how I learned to write left handed. Melissa :0 :0 :0 I have no words! I cannot even imagine. |
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Post by bdawnb on Jul 13, 2014 21:37:19 GMT
First time: When I was four I pulled my tricyle under our mailbox that was up on the house so I could stand on it to get the mail for my mother. My idea, she certainly didn't ask me to get it. The trike slid out from under me and I fell and broke the bone in left radius right above my wrist. They taped my arm to my body. I remember that my mom made me a cape to wear since I couldn't wear a coat.
Second Time: In first grade I was running from a friend who scared me (long story I won't go into) and tripped on the sidewalk,fell broke the left humerus in the middle and again they taped my arm to my body for six weeks.
Third Time: Roller skating in the ninth grade, fell backwards and cracked my left elbow.
Forth Time: About six years ago (see how cleverly I didn't mention my age?) I was playing raquetball and while going for the ball, I hit the wall with my left shoulder then fell and caught myself with my hands. They thought I had torn my rotator cuff and treated me for that for six weeks before taking an x-ray and finding out I had instead fractured the end of my humerus in my left arm. It healed weird by then and I still have trouble moving my arm in some directions.
Did I mention I'm left handed? 
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Post by theshyone on Jul 13, 2014 22:14:51 GMT
I had broken ribs following CPR after having sudden cardiac arrests two years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 22:23:40 GMT
broken arm-rollerskating at age 8
broken finger- high school basketball
lots of broken toes-usually hitting them on things
broken foot-2006-foot turned on a weirdly sloped, unpainted dip (leading to a handicapped parking space) on a sidewalk
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Post by mimima on Jul 13, 2014 23:14:31 GMT
I broke a finger playing four square when I was about 8.
I climbed over a fence to see if the kids were playing there (they weren't) and when I climbed back over the fence, fell and broke my ankle. I was 30.
I have broken toes here and there running into furniture.
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Post by lbp on Jul 14, 2014 1:07:55 GMT
First time I was seven playing "war" up in a tree and one of the other kids pushed me out of the tree and I fell on a rake handle. I climbed back up in the tree and "decked" him before I climbed back down and went and told my babysitter I had fell.
Second time my "friend" convinced me to try a competition knee board instead of the plain one I was used to using. It flipped up somehow and hit me in the ribs. I was 20.
The friend was the same one as the first incidence. I try to avoid him now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 1:08:12 GMT
Foot - playing handball.
Thumb - playing softball.
Elbow - goofing off and missed a chair.
Ankle- sneezed and fell down a flight of stairs. That one left me with steel in my ankle.
ETA: I forgot the toes! I've broken numerous toes over the years by walking into furniture in the dark barefoot.
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Funnily enough, he was in the middle of A Levels too! 
. Ankle was broken, but fortunately I didn't need surgery, and only had to wear a boot for about 6 weeks. And physical therapy. 
