What bones have you broken?

Donegal Dan

Im a few weeks into recovering from breaking my arm and I was wondering what others have done to keep themselves busy when recovering. Im house bound for now so its mostly been:

• Friends and family dropping over for tea and chats
• Rewatching old TV shows in full and movies and games (that only need one arm!) on the iPad
• Starting work on a new online idea I have
• Thinking of learning Spanish with Linguaphone or similar
• Discovering Boards and other forums for a good read

What bones have you broken, how long did it take to recover and how did you stay sane in between?

you're housebound by a broken arm? :pac:

Lucyfur

Movies that only need one arm, eh?

Why are you housebound? Did you break your arm off completely or something?

FreshKnickers

Broke the collarbone of a bloke who tried to break into my house.

Turned out the poor man was just trying to save me money on me energy bills.

Donegal Dan

Just to clarify

Its a serious double break and, although Ive being getting out of the house for some drives with friends, its been recommended that I rest up at home.

I'm on this site years and I can't figure out the list function and this one armed dude figures it out in his first post. No fair.

biko

Maybe the OPs house is far far away in the wilds of Donegal and you have to drive there.

Novella

I've broken my elbow and had two operations to pin it back together and also broken my nose and jaw (at the same time) and I wasn't housebound! I just did what I usually do, albeit plastered up a bit.

kneemos

Lucyfur wrote: »

Movies that only need one arm, eh?

Why are you housebound? Did you break your arm off completely or something?

Could be in a wheelchair and would only go hn circles with one arm.

KeithM89

I broke my leg when i got a new swimming pool.
Stayed inside, wrote a musical and thought my neighbour murdered his wife.

humbert

I assume the OP mistyped and meant both his legs. I broke my arm as a teenager. You can only imagine the quizzical expression on my face the first time I realised how it would affect number-twos.

Donegal Dan

kneemos wrote: »

Could be in a wheelchair and would only go hn circles with one arm.

Lol :pac: No.

I broke my knee and tore ligaments in my ankle on the first night of electric picnic, stayed there, danced all weekend, and didn't go to get it checked til the Monday. So there.

Pensivepuca

I broke one of the bones in my right wrist 4times.

anncoates

Ankle, nose, collarbone and thumb.

All separately.

Esoteric_

I've only ever broken my nose. It's still in need of treatment (I can't breathe properly through it, deviated septum and I can twist my nose around and click it and move it in weird ways), but after having cameras shoved down the back of it without being given time for the anasthetic to kick in, I refuse to have the recommended rhinoplasty. Fcuk that.

To recover, I drank until I no longer felt any pain, then went to the hospital five days later.

zenno

Had my jaw and nose broken 2 weeks before a christmas, nothing like been wired up as christmas dinner is being served :mad:

lahalane

I broke my nose a few times and no my nickname is Jewboy

www.sporcle.com is a good site to kill time. It's a quiz site.

x43r0

The only time I ever broke a bone was when I fell over on an ice-rink. Here are the before and after surgery pics

dub_skav

Deleted User wrote: »

I broke my knee and tore ligaments in my ankle on the first night of electric picnic, stayed there, danced all weekend, and didn't go to get it checked til the Monday. So there.

whoopsadaisydoodles

JPCN1

Broke my Patella, Collar bone, Cracked two ribs, Nose and Leg.

I wouldn't mind but I was useless at rugby!

Wacker The Attacker

JPCN1 wrote: »

Broke my Patella, Collar bone, Cracked two ribs, Nose and Leg.

I wouldn't mind but I was useless at rugby!

Obviously

shopaholic01

I hope it wasn't your **** arm OP.

dub_skav

dub_skav wrote: »

Deleted User

Indeed!

Also broke my sternum, my knee cap, and some ribs!

brokenarms

Five ribs, broken my arm twice, my wrist , my fingers , and ankle and my toe.

Moto X rocks buts takes its toll.

arybvtcw0eolkf

God damn, if I can remember it all.

Left elbow, radial head and scaphoid (wrist) in a motorbike crash.

Left wrist when I fell off a ladder (dislocated my hand, it was fu*king horrible).

Right wrist when I fell off a roof in Lebanon.

Right ankle twice, fighting both times.

Ribs, a few times plus some fingers and toes lol.

Only one kept me housebound and that was the fall from the ladder and only because the pain was so extreme.

When I'm laid up with an injury I'll take the time to study something and really get into it.

Best of luck with your injury OP.

dub_skav

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed!

Also broke my sternum, my knee cap, and some ribs!

Serious question, what does "broke my knee" mean in your previous post?
I wouldn't have thought there is a specific knee to break

kaimera

Left scaphoid
Left ankle*
left heel bone*
left collar bone*
left shoulder blade*
hairline fracture left elbow

*traffic accident.

brokenarms

only thing that kept me indoors was the Ankle. That was a sore MF and crutches are the devils work.

mattjack

Zendaya Magnificent Tarp wrote: »

God damn, if I can remember it all.

Left elbow, radial head and scaphoid (wrist) in a motorbike crash.

Left wrist when I fell off a ladder (dislocated my hand, it was fu*king horrible).

Right wrist when I fell off a roof in Lebanon.

Right ankle twice, fighting both times.

Ribs, a few times plus some fingers and toes lol.

Only one kept me housebound and that was the fall from the ladder and only because the pain was so extreme.

When I'm laid up with an injury I'll take the time to study something and really get into it.

Best of luck with your injury OP.

How 'bout studying orthopedics or maybe stuntman skills.

Skill Magill

• Collarbone twice
• Heal
• Arm
• Are teeth bones? teeth
• Face

Lists are nice

• My index finger
• My cheekbone

Mostly from hitting the road from a motorbike

Raffo69

Left collarbone 3 times & a broken nose (luckiest punch ever) lol

martinn123

I think I have broken a bone in my mickey, can't get an Erec...

No Wait, Wait, it's fixed, see you later..

dub_skav

dub_skav wrote: »

Serious question, what does "broke my knee" mean in your previous post?
I wouldn't have thought there is a specific knee to break

Cracked the very top of my tibia!

ellrb

I broke my wrist in a snowboarding lesson, my left ring finger twice playing basketball, and cracked my knee cap when I tripped on a door mat running inside the house.

kneemos

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed!

Also broke my sternum, my knee cap, and some ribs!

Can't be easy to break your Sternum,bar a car crash or something.

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

Can't be easy to break your Sternum,bar a car crash or something.

Yup.

Pensivepuca

Zendaya Magnificent Tarp wrote: »

scaphoid (wrist)

Thats the fecker that broke on me. The hospital x rayed and said nothing was wrong so I was walking around with a broken bone. I ran into a gate (it was dark and I am blind as a bat) and broke it more. . . The hospital said they could not do anything, the cast never healed it, so I broke it a few more times, very weak. Plus it sticks out like a freaky boner on my wrist.

Karl Stein

I broked ma heart when Peggy Sue done upped 'n left me.

None, and now I'm afraid to move

danniemcq

• All my fingers (small ones several times)
• Big toe
• Collerbone twice
• Fractured shoulder three times
• Cracked and broke most ribs
• Torn abdominal muscles (4 times)
• Fractured ankle
• Broke several small bones in my right foot

wooo I can list too. There is probably others where I should have broke something, (2 big quad accidents) but thats all I can think of.

bluewolf

bluewolf wrote: »

None, and now I'm afraid to move

Grand so, what are you doing to pass the time - OP is looking for ideas.

Henlars67

Broke 2 bones in my wrist when I was 11. Broke the same two bones a couple of years ago. Getting arthritis now as a result.

cena

My wrist while on my bmx. Not bone related but I was playing with washing line, I ended up swinging around the line and part of my nose came apart from my face

The Backwards Man

• None.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Grand so, what are you doing to pass the time - OP is looking for ideas.

Covering my walls and floors and all surfaces with soft padding...

Tar.Aldarion

None crowd represent

cena

bluewolf wrote: »

Covering my walls and floors and all surfaces with soft padding...

Bubble wrap

KTRIC

Broke my ankle in 3 places when I was about 20 on my first motorbike. Tore the **** out of my arms as well. The surgeon wanted to amputate the leg but me being a cocky little b*llix I told him no and argued about it. In the end they sent me home with my leg in a cast. To this day I find it hard to walk in a straight line :pac:

SusieBlue

My left ankle 3 times, my right arm, two fingers and I dislocated my shoulder too. Oh, and my tailbone.

I've also sprained my left ankle at least a dozen times, I never gave it a chance to hear properly after the first break and it never regained its strength. Paying for it now

Chattastrophe!

My right arm, doing a handstand, and several bones in my left foot, doing karate. Don't remember being housebound for any length with either of them, but I was a lot younger then!

I did try to get out of doing homework with the broken arm ... didn't work though.