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What bones have you broken?

  • 27-08-2013 08:28PM
    #1
    Donegal Dan
    Site Banned Posts: 433 ✭✭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?


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Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #3
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Movies that only need one arm, eh?

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


  • #4
    FreshKnickers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭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.


  • #5
    Donegal Dan
    Site Banned Posts: 433 ✭✭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.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


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


  • #8
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,454 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


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


  • #11
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    Donegal Dan
    Site Banned Posts: 433 ✭✭Donegal Dan


    kneemos wrote: »
    Could be in a wheelchair and would only go hn circles with one arm.

    Lol :pac: No.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #14
    Pensivepuca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Pensivepuca


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


  • #15
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Ankle, nose, collarbone and thumb.

    All separately.


  • #16
    Esoteric_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭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. :D


  • #17
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


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


  • #18
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    x43r0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭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

    b4a35f7033b2eb0f8ce1823eb410096c.png


  • #20
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭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


  • #21
    JPCN1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 944 ✭✭✭JPCN1


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

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


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  • #22
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭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


  • #23
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


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


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dub_skav wrote: »
    Deleted User

    Indeed!

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


  • #25
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


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

    Moto X rocks buts takes its toll.


  • #26
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭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


  • #28
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


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

    *traffic accident.


  • #29
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


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


  • #30
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭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 :(


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