What bones have you broken?

bumper234

Donegal Dan wrote: »

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?

Housebound? With a broken arm? Sorry op but no matter how bad it's broken you can still get out:)

Ok here's my list, i will start from the bottom and work up

• Left foot 3 toes when i ran over it with a pallet full of Batchelors beans.
• Right foot 2 toes when i tried to kick a ball , missed and kicked a wall barefoot
• Left Fibula in 2 place left Tibia once
• Right Femur once
• coccyx once (probably the most painful one)
• Compression fracture of the 5th and 6th vertebrae
• 6 ribs (not all at once)
• Right arm radius 2 places
• Left arm humerus once
• Clavicle (collar bone) twice
• several bones in my hand that i forget the names for
• Nose twice
• Jaw once in three places

These have all been over 35 years and include 20 years working as a door man. The one that messed me up the most was the broken jaw. I was in an accident and could not get medical attention for three days and by that stage infection had set in. At one stage they talked about removing my lower jaw and replacing with titanium one I got better though so no bionic man for me:D

roll

have broken 5 fingers and 1 thumb, both hands, collarbone (compound), leg and hip (at the same time)... the leg and hip was by far the worst but the hallucinations when they doubled my morphine was awesome!

prizefighter

bumper234 wrote: »

Housebound? With a broken arm? Sorry op but no matter how bad it's broken you can still get out:)

Ok here's my list, i will start from the bottom and work up

• Left foot 3 toes when i ran over it with a pallet full of Batchelors beans.
• Right foot 2 toes when i tried to kick a ball , missed and kicked a wall barefoot
• Left Fibula in 2 place left Tibia once
• Right Femur once
• coccyx once (probably the most painful one)
• Compression fracture of the 5th and 6th vertebrae
• 6 ribs (not all at once)
• Right arm radius 2 places
• Left arm humerus once
• Clavicle (collar bone) twice
• several bones in my hand that i forget the names for
• Nose twice
• Jaw once in three places

These have all been over 35 years and include 20 years working as a door man. The one that messed me up the most was the broken jaw. I was in an accident and could not get medical attention for three days and by that stage infection had set in. At one stage they talked about removing my lower jaw and replacing with titanium one I got better though so no bionic man for me:D

I know your pain about the jaw, my entire lower jaw collapsed after being hit face on by a van. 5 breaks and my mandible just accordianed so now its held together by huge lengths of titanium and a ****load of screws. The most annoying part is the 5 teeth I lost though, waiting for the replacements to get put in, costing the guts of $20k, eugh.

Mousewar

MooShop wrote: »

:eek: I thought I was the only one.

I broke both my wrists two years ago. Unfortunate timing as it happened exactly a week before my only sisters wedding. The day after I was let out of hospital I was on an 18 hour flight back to Ireland for it!!

How do wipe yourself???

Thanks to a Wolverine-like skeleton, I've never broken a bone. I am currently recovering from tearing every ligament known to man in my ankle but the bone is grand.

Eogclouder

My 4th and 5th Metacarpus on my right hand....three times (the bit between your knuckle and your finger knuckle) and my scaphoid (some tiny bone in your hand near the thumb)

MonstaMash

Riding motorcycles the last 32 years...easier to tell which bones I haven't broken

Jebus....

Some of these stories are horrific!

I'm 33 and have somehow managed to get through life with only fracturing a finger when I was 12 and not breaking anything as of yet!

(Looks for wood to touch)

Billy86

I've never broken a bone in my body actually, but I have had some of my little finger cut off.

Though Mat Hoffman laughs at everyone in this thread.

Donegal Dan

Some crazy stories in there, thanks for all the replies so far. Does anyone remember Evel Knievel? He broke different bones 433 times!

Donegal Dan

KTRIC wrote: »

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:

How could he have professionally or medically justified taking your leg because your ankle was broke? Thats insane.

fenris

• Pelvis - bloody sore - even now, 8 years later
• Wrist - same one twice
• Ribs - usually in groups of three, didn't really thing of the ones at the back as ribs until I broke them, then they definitely felt like broken ribs!
• Ankle - thought it was a bad sprain, but by the time I figure out that it was broken it was too late to do anything with, so it just sprains really easily now.

Lots of dislocations, ligament damage etc. mostly caused by falling off of mountain bikes and kites.

The ribs were the most annoying particularly the ones at the back, a nice sharp reminder every time you sneeze or move the wrong way.
Pelvis was a bitch but the pain was enough to make you pass out anytime anyone went messing at it, the AJHs in Vincents were the worst,
"howrya luv, were just straightening your sheets", then you feel the head of your femur grinding through the broken bits as they pull the sheets making your leg move then you pass out even though you are loaded to the gills with morphine.

fenris

Donegal Dan wrote: »

How could he have professionally or medically justified taking your leg because your ankle was broke? Thats insane.

Ugly toes?

Reiketsu

None. Unofficially invincible.

dmc17

Reiketsu wrote: »

None. Unofficially invincible.

Wrong thread. This Is the one you're looking for.

dmc17

Donegal Dan wrote: »

How could he have professionally or medically justified taking your leg because your ankle was broke? Thats insane.

I had 1 small break in my ankle and came very close to it. Complications can occur

Smidge

• Right collarbone x 2
• Left collarbone x 1
• Cheekbone
• Jaw
• Spine x 3

meoklmrk91

Lots of people a differentiating between fractures and breaks, a fracture is just the medical term for a break.

I have broken my fourth metacarpal on my right hand, basically the bone that runs from my baby finger to my wrist. It is called a boxers fracture, I am not a boxer, I was drunk and stupid

Gorteen

Little finger................

Donegal Dan

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Lots of people a differentiating between fractures and breaks, a fracture is just the medical term for a break.

And, as Ive discovered, medical professions like to announce that fact like someone who's just invented Penicillin.

heretochat

Nose, jaw, ankle, wrist, fingers,

Yep I'm awkward and accident prone...

sebastianlieken

Smidge wrote: »

• Right collarbone x 2
• Left collarbone x 1
• Cheekbone
• Jaw
• Spine x 3

I just joined that club aswell.

cervical spine.

Not fun.

robluvshandegg

Femur x 1

Arm - Radius and Ulna - Clean breaks - Permanent plates and pins - (2 plates, 13 pins) - 2 big nice scars

hootietootie

Right Elbow, right elbow, right elbow, right elbow, right elbow, right elbow, index finger. No more elbow breaks allowed, time to let my face take the hit instead

Smidge

sebastianlieken wrote: »

I just joined that club aswell.

cervical spine.

Not fun.

I feel your pain(2 x thoracic, 1 x lumbar).
On the plus side.....years later and they still give me trouble:rolleyes:

Ciderswigger

Wrist x3
Finger
Toe
Chipped a bone in my wrist too which was agony.
3 bones in my lower spine

My wrist was set badly when I was younger so my middle finger sits kinda weird.
And like most people with spinal injuries, my back still causes me trouble on a regular basis.
I am a walking disaster - one year for Christmas, I got a huuuuuge roll of bubble wrap as a present from the lads I work with.

Wibbs

Couple of fingers, a couple of ribs and a small wrist bone. All in situations that should have merited worse. Luckily I'm dense and so are my bones. Fingers are grand, straighten the broken one and strap it to the next sound one. Well I suppose if it's an L shape, or you get numbness and your finger above the break goes blue or green then get thee to a physic pronto. Ribs are a complete fcuking bastard though. Can't get any comfort until they heal and obviously you can't really immobilise them fully. Well you could but that would require not breathing so...

wmpdd3

Broke arm, fell into a septic tank.

Arm re-set by Ardkeen.

Broke my arm again 3 more times over the next few years.

Finally Arm broken and re-set by Ardkeen.

Fell, broke my other arm.

The only thing I didnt do while I had a broken arm was swim.

jimbobaloobob

Collarbones, wrist, ankle and elbow

Bassfish

Broke my baby toe at a ping ping show in Bangkok, true story!

Yamanoto

Nose & little finger.

Nose was an elbow in the face during a college rugby match, bled like a baxtard too.

It was manually realigned by the Doc - applying pressure on each side 'til it clicked into place, but hasn't been straight since.