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What bones have you broken?

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  • #62
    Sin City
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    The usual stuff
    Leg arm, fingers thumbs collar bone, heal and at the moment I have torn some ligaments in my foot.


  • #63
    Terrell Chubby Timer
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Terrell Chubby Timer


    • one
    • two
    • three


  • #64
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Broke the little finger on my left hand playing football, thought it was only a sprain at the time and left it be, now it looks weirds and points in the wrong direction.


  • #65
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,205 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Spine


  • #66
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    None thank goodness.


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  • #67
    Donegal Dan
    Site Banned Posts: 433 ✭✭Donegal Dan


    Thanks for the replies so far. If any of you were house bound with the injury for awhile could you add how you kept busy and sane during that time. Cheers!


  • #68
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    • Two ribs
    • Two vertibrae :(
    • Middle finger


  • #69
    sikahuntejack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭sikahuntejack


    Dislocated my shoulder 3 times from fighting had to get reconstruction surgery on it , Broke my right foot from fighting , Broke 3 ribs from falling out of shopping trolly drunk, Broke my right hand hitting a bouncer , Broke a finger on my left hand fighting , was a bit of a **** for fighting back in the day all grown up now still barred from most of the pubs in my town 10 years later:mad:


  • #70
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    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:

    He wanted to amputate because of a broken ankle!? What!? Fair play to you for saying no.


  • #71
    Vote 4 Pedro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Vote 4 Pedro


    when i was 19 i was run over by a drunk driver and i broke my left leg twice above the knee, tore my knee in half and it was broken 8 times below the knee,
    the leg was f@cked up bad so they took out my knee completely and joined up the leg with no knee so it was fused together like a peg leg.

    Then 8 years later i fell of a ladder and landed on that leg, it just smashed to bits, my foot came off at the ankle, there was lots of blood, really lots and lots of the stuff, the leg was beyond repair so it was amputated right up my thigh,
    that's the only thing ive broken but it was enough for a life time.


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  • #72
    pinkbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭pinkbear


    One in my foot, my sternum, 2 arms (at the same time.... not pleasant), and an arm on it's own.

    On a fairly serious note to those of us with a list!

    When I rattled off my list to my doc, he quickly sent me for a dexa scan and turns out I had borderline osteoporosis, age 36. So go get yourself checked. We shouldn't really be this fragile!!


  • #73
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    sikahuntejack wrote: »
    Dislocated my shoulder 3 times from fighting had to get reconstruction surgery on it , Broke my right foot from fighting , Broke 3 ribs from falling out of shopping trolly drunk, Broke my right hand hitting a bouncer , Broke a finger on my left hand fighting , was a bit of a **** for fighting back in the day all grown up now still barred from most of the pubs in my town 10 years later:mad:

    You must have been ****e at fighting.


  • #74
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    • None as far as I know


  • #75
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    humerus bone

    sorest thing ever...snapped it....metal plate and large scar down me arm for life :(


  • #76
    OiOshawott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭OiOshawott


    Never broken anything cos I'm a pussy


  • #77
    prizefighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭prizefighter


    An open fracture to my tib/fib on left leg, 8 broken ribs, jaw broken in 5 places and broke both my cheek bones. All in the same incident. I also punctured my lung, perforated my pancreas ,bruised my liver and ruptured my spleen in the same incident.

    Hospital bound for a month then housebound for another month after that. I kept busy watching movies, copious amounts of TV shows. I read a ridiculous amount of books and even bought myself a new guitar to keep myself occupied. I'm starting back to work next week, six months down the track. I guess staying occupied was helped by a lot of friend/family visits and then the huge amount of physio I've been doing (3 times a week).


  • #78
    princess-lala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    I'm a disaster zone!!

    Left arm twice, right arm five times!

    Knee cap twice :o ankle, collar bone! Fingers numerous times!

    Oh and my neck! Can't forget that one :D

    Oops forgot to add the recovery! All bar my neck I did as I always do! Neck I had no choice but to be house bound for a few weeks but as soon as I could get about I did!


  • #79
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Never actually broken a bone, but I have over-stressed a few e.g. sometimes I've felt that I've cracked a finger bone. The worst was a stress fracture in my right tibia in 1991: horrible pain, not much you can do except rest and drink milk.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #80
    akura
    Closed Accounts Posts: 497 ✭✭akura


    When I was 12 I fell off a roof and mashed my elbow. Thankfully that's the only thing I've broken


  • #81
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    x43r0 wrote: »
    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

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    Holy crap. That looks so sore.

    My old injuries are pretty tame compared to what's listed in this thread.
    Donegal Dan wrote: »
    Thanks for the replies so far. If any of you were house bound with the injury for awhile could you add how you kept busy and sane during that time. Cheers!


    I've never been laid up like that, but I have a few suggestions:
    1. Take a look at these free online courses. Some top colleges offer them. Some of them give accreditation, certs., etc.
    2. If you like reading, amazon.co.uk. If you know anyone with a kindle, you could download whatever you want. Take a look at Project Gutenberg for free stuff.
    3. Netflix.
    4. Download: music, books, films, comics etc.
    5. Get a raspberry pi and mess around with it.
    Sure, let us know how you get on anyway.


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  • #82
    Karona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    Fractured my wrist 10 years ago playing the drums.

    AND I am currently in a cast. I dislocated the ring finger metacarpal and fractured it. Its my dominant hand too :(


  • #83
    Lurching
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Lurching


    Broke both wrists at the same time as a kid,
    broke my nose skiing.


  • #84
    TheBrinch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭TheBrinch


    I've broken both index fingers 3 times, both thumbs 3 times, left wrist twice, right wrist 3 times, big toe once and my left arm twice.

    First time breaking my arm was only 1 bone, second time broke both and the bones shattered, leaving me permanently disabled(disfigured?) and unable to turn my hand palm up :'(

    Also many hairline fractures in wrists and fingers!


  • #85
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I have shattered my left wrist once and right twice, dislocated my right wrist, elbow and shoulder all at once, ruptured my knee, was not fun at all, broke my ankle, compound break on my upper left leg, broke my collarbone, cracked a few ribs, tore muscles in my ankles, back, arm, and neck.....that's about it.....


  • #86
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    Where do I start.... Collar bone, Wrist, upper arm. first big jump. tibia and fibula as soon as I added an engine, and later.... Tibia, Femur. Raduis, wrist and humerus. All the one side. thank god, actually all the same time. I don't ride a bike any more as it happens


  • #87
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    tempted to break someone elses bones in a sec... something be destroying my bedtime stories here...


  • #88
    rosie16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭rosie16


    my brother broke my baby finger when i was 3/4. He stole something of mine and I ran after him and he ran into a room and slammed the door behind him. Somehow i got my finger caught in the hinge. It was paper thin so the doctor said I'd had to leave it grow back broken. Can still see the white of the bone xD


  • #89
    MooShop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭MooShop


    Lurching wrote: »
    Broke both wrists at the same time

    :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!!


  • #90
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Where do I start?

    2 x left arm fractures with resulting freaky range of motion and flexing at elbow joint (rugby before the age of 10)
    4 x wrist fractures, 2 on each wrist (all basketball in my teens)
    8 x ankle fractures (all basketball). I have glass ankles.
    4 x fractures and dislocation of fingers and knuckles on my left hand in the same incident. As a result, my knuckles are quite misshapen. Basketball again!
    Lost count of how many subluxes in my left shoulder. It has the most bizarre and (some say) grotesque range of motion on account of this. The subluxes can happen at any time, even when I'm asleep - no major trauma required. Can pop it at will and put in back relatively pain free at this stage.
    Fractured eye socket, fractured jaw and lost 3 teeth (whilst wearing a gum shield) in a game of rugby in college between classmates - not even a serious game, the shame!
    2 x fractured ribs, car crash.

    Prob more, so tired at the moment I can't sleep due to shoulder pain....ha! Ha!


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  • #91
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Broke my ankle. It was more than enough. It currently looks something like this


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