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Post by melanell on Jul 14, 2014 1:30:14 GMT
I broke my leg, right above the ankle, playing football. (American football, that is.) There was a mole hole and I stepped in in and my body kept going while my foot was in the hole.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 14, 2014 1:59:32 GMT
Swinging on a rope swing. Fell off and broke my arm.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 14, 2014 2:01:24 GMT
When I was in grade school, my girl scout troop went sledding at the park where the pool was (because there was a hill there). I got turned around and slammed back-of-the-head first into the cinderblock building with the bathrooms. My mother did NOT take me to the hospital when she picked me up, but she probably should have-- I would not have been surprised to learn I got a skull fracture or at least a concussion out of that!
I did sprain my foot in a parking lot once. Was looking at the receipt or something and missed a pothole. I stepped in it wrong and went down. Scraped my knee and hands. Thought I would be okay but my foot was a little funny feeling so I went in to fill out an incident report. By the end of the night, I couldn't walk very well, and went to urgent care. They wrapped it and gave me crutches, which I wasn't very good at. The darn foot gave me problems for years afterward.
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Post by dulcemama on Jul 14, 2014 2:02:03 GMT
This is me as well. I broke my elbow when I fell down in my apartment and caught myself wrong (no alcohol involved) I broke two bones in my hand when I panicked while riding my bike and squeezed the front break first, launching myself over the handlebars. I broke my toe when I stubbed it on a bag of groceries. I have cracked several join in my hands in various ways...playing volleyball, screwing around with friends, that sort of thing.
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Post by shescrafty on Jul 14, 2014 2:09:14 GMT
I lasted 43 years and had my first broken bone this past April. i was roller skating with my 7yo, and then I wasn't and broke my wrist! I knew instantly that my wrist was broken and got a black sparky cast with silver glitter all over it.
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lucki
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Post by lucki on Jul 14, 2014 2:34:11 GMT
Broken wrist 1 - ice skating Broken wrist 2 - tripped over my own two feet Broken wrist 3 - slipped on the ice stepping off the bus Cracked skull - fainted while riding my bike. I work up in the hospital a day or two later. This is how I found out that I was very anemic! Broken hand - slipped on the ice while taking a hockey net off the boards and dropped the net on my hand.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 2:52:23 GMT
Broke the tibial plateau bone in my knee in three places while on a cruise ship. We had been aboard ship for three hours. The ship was delayed leaving port that day because they were busy getting me kicked off the boat.
Spent my "cruise" vacation having surgery. Fifteen inch jagged scar from my thigh to my calf...55 staples. Rode a plane home from Miami 7 days after surgery.
I now have a hundred thousand dollar knee that doubles as a weather predictor.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Jul 14, 2014 3:05:24 GMT
I was home with both kids (ages 3 and 1). I stepped on one of ds' matchbox cars. It was the outside bone on my right foot. I called dh and asked him if he could come home instead of going to his meeting (office was just up the road from the house). Here's how the conversation went:
Me: I think I just broke my foot. I need you to come home DH: I have to go to my meeting (please note that these were weekly meetings and him missing it wasn't going to be a detriment to his job) Me: Um, I just told you I think I broke my foot, I think you need to come home first.
He got home, got me situated (couldn't walk), called fil to come over, went to his meeting. Came home and took me to the dr. He was convienced that I hadn't broken it but just pulled a ligament or something. We got to the ER. Doc comes in and says good news is your ankle is fine. Bad news is you broke your foot. I luckily didn't end up in a cast but one of those sandal things.
Fast forward a few years. I was taking dinner out of the freezer. The pack of pork chops were frozen to the london broil. I pulled them apart and dropped the steak on my middle toe. Yep, that hurt like a bitch. I'm pretty sure that was broken.
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Post by violet on Jul 14, 2014 4:12:04 GMT
Tripped and fell over the side of our stairway and fractured my wrist. I was 17 and quickly realized why my parent's had the "no running down the stairs" rule.
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modiemay
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Post by modiemay on Jul 14, 2014 5:20:06 GMT
I broke my little toe tripping over a toddler who cut in front of me so avoid kneeling her in the head I kinda sidestepped and jumped and broke it. One year to the day later, I broke the darn thing again putting on a slip on shoe. A few years later I broke 2 fingers in a netball game when the opposing team had an overzealous player. That player - my DH!
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Post by lorieann13 on Jul 14, 2014 5:55:37 GMT
Sitting in the front passenger seat of at dh's car (we were only dating for 10m at the time).
A drunk driver, who had 5 beers, ran a stop sign at aprox 63 mph and hit right where I was sitting.
Dh had a honda civic hatch back, he had a raised truck.
Every bone on the right side of my face was crushed into tiny pieces. Hige crack in my skull. Mandible crushed. 3 ribs cracked.
Was in surgery for 10 hours. My facial structure is now 6 metal plates, and my mandible is wires and screws.
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azredhead
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Post by azredhead on Jul 14, 2014 6:04:28 GMT
my thumb and my pointing finger, playing softball. I was batting the pitch hit me right in the fingers. if toes count-numourous times. One is slightly crooked. Other than that broken bones fortunately haven't been frequent. I have enough in the surgery dept.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 6:07:11 GMT
I broke my ankle in high school jumping into a pit full of foam things at a gymnastic gym. I didn't know until later that a bone fragment lodged in there and ended up severing a ligament.
I broke my elbow walking down a hill that had a rocky sidewalk (because of the severed ligament my ankle didn't like unsteady surfaces much)
I broke my big toe jumping off a swing a few years ago. My bf at the time told me not to but I didn't listen to him.
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Post by melanell on Jul 14, 2014 11:37:23 GMT
I would never make it in the medical profession.
I was fine answering the question, but when I started reading the responses I also started to feel sick. I had to stop, LOL!
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Post by *KAS* on Jul 14, 2014 11:44:49 GMT
I've only ever had one broken bone - 5th metatarsal, right foot. 6th grade, I think. I was running in PE, in Keds with no shoelaces which was the 'style' and it turned over on me. I hobbled around on it all day at school. Mom took me to the hospital that night for XRays because I still said it hurt. Yea, no wonder, it was broken. Because it was so high up on my foot they couldn't cast it, and I guess walking boots weren't a thing at the time? I was in a wrap and on crutches for 9 longs weeks in a Midwestern winter. Crutches + ice = AWFUL. Then I was supposed to wear a 'hard soled saddle shoe' for 2 weeks to strengthen it. Yea, that went over well to a self-conscious 6th grade girl.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 12:08:13 GMT
I once broke my little toe because I was pissed at my boyfriend and kicked a door. Yeah. Not my smoothest move.
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Post by smokeynspike on Jul 23, 2014 5:07:03 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. That isn't even the worst of it. hahahaha I grew up in a small hick town and the same man that delivered me as a baby was my only doctor for this injury after the hospital set them each time. I should have seen a doctor who specialized in bone injuries and had it reset or something. If you move your elbows so that they are flat, your palms should face up. On my left arm, they function as normal. On my right arm, the injured one, my palm faces to the LEFT with my thumb up. Seriously messed up rotation. Every once in a while, when I need my arm to move certain ways, I wonder if I could get it fixed, but don't think it is really worth the effort at this point.
Melissa
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Post by oblibby on Jul 23, 2014 5:52:39 GMT
I broke my upper arm testing out the grips on the super ugly snow wellies (moon boots) my mum made me wear. Our school playing fields were lower than the school so we had great slides down the slopes when it snowed. I did my experiment on the 'slidiest slide in the school'. I hated those damned wellies and still blame them 30 years later - they had removable liners to keep your feet warm and one day someone put pencil shavings in the . That said, I'd probably wear them now if we had a bad winter. I love roller skating and had a pretty bad knee injury at the start of last year, but touch wood, no broken bones. Take a look at my blog to find out what I've been up to
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Post by marimoose on Jul 23, 2014 6:08:21 GMT
Mommaho, my dad always called me Grace because I was so clumsy so reading that your middle name should be Grace, made me laugh.
In spite of being called Grace, I didn't break a bone, leaving that to my brother, until I was 16 when I was trying to learn how to shoot a basketball. Somehow I managed to break my finger. I knew the that basketball was not going to be my sport.
At 21 I was driving my bf's car in wintery conditions. I hit a spot of ice, spun around, slammed in to the curb and when I did that my left arm flew off the steering wheel, smashing my wrist down hard enough on the steering wheel to break it.''
2 years ago I broke my fort when I kicked the wall and the wall won. My foot still bothers me. Do you know how difficult it is to maneuver anything in Orlando as I hobbled around.
When I was painting the stairwell, everyone held their breath each time I stepped onto the ladder.
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Post by KiwiJo on Jul 23, 2014 6:27:26 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. Oh my goodness - are we twins?! I turned 60 at the beginning of this month. Last week I slipped on the icy pavement and broke my right wrist (I am right handed). So frustrating; everything takes so much longer, trying to do it with my non-dominant hand.
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Post by miominmio on Jul 23, 2014 8:22:29 GMT
I broke most of the bones in my tight foot when my horse reared in the stable. My foot ended up between his hoof and the concrete (hadn't put bedding in there yet), and it hurt like h3ll for weeks. Twenty years later, my foot will hurt if I walk too much.
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Post by Lindarina on Jul 23, 2014 12:07:18 GMT
I was lucky enough to break my ankle on New Years Eve when I was 20 (13 years ago). I had just arrived to a party, hadn't even had a sip of anything alcoholic, and broke my ankle simply by walking to the bathroom on a flat floor. I twisted my foot, and fell with my weight straight down. The sound of a bone breaking was a bit And I felt like an idiot, sitting at the ER with all the other drunk idiots, on the biggest party night of the year, trying to convince the doctor that I was sober
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