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I was wondring who here has broken bones, which ones, and how did it happen? I have a whole list.

I broke all 4 fingers on my left hand in a motorcyle wreck. Not the thumb.

I broke all but the pinky and thumb on my right hand in a fight. Guy had a really hard head.

I broke my nose 4 times. The first time was as a kid. There was a mulberry tree in our front yard and I used to run, jump, grab this branch and swing myself over the 3 foot high cinder block fence and land on the other side. I did it one time and the branch was wet and slippery and I went face first into the fence. The second time was just a couple of months later playing basketball, got an elbow in the face. The third time was playing football. I got tackled funny and my helmet shifted back into my face. I have a scar across the bridge of my nose where the face mask basically cut me. The 4th time was by a doctor who did it to straighten my nose back out and relieve some breathing problems. That may not count.

I broke 2 ribs on the right side in the same motorcycle wreck where I broke the 4 fingers on my left hand. I think the ribs are one of the worst bones to break because there's nothing they can really do for you. Everything hurts for weeks.

It's not a break really but I tore up my right knee. That's what ended football for me. The initial injury was damage to the cartlidge, tendons, and ligaments. But later on in life a piece of bone broke off the patela and was free floating in my knee. I had to have it removed. So that is kind of a broken bone.

Lastly, I broke the little toe on my right foot. That sucked. I stubbed it on the coffee table in the middle of the night and just broke it. I had to have a complete foot cast for the little toe. You can't believe how much that little toe contributes to your sense of balance.

Well, that's my laundry list of broken bones. What's yours?
 
I have had a broken nose from a car accident..... thats it. Now, if u ask about surgeries, that would be a whole new story.
 
I broken bone...My Nose. And I broke it with my very own knee going off a high dive at the pool when I was younger.

Never went to get it looked at and now I wish I did because I have a deviated septum and sinus problems.

However...I have had MANY stitches to the head if that is any consolation.:D
 
I broke a leg once. That guy still doesn't walk right. :laugh2:

No broken bones for me.
 
Most fingers (no thumbs). hand (twice). arm at my wrist. a couple of toes. one rib. I agree with Hos... the rib was by far the worst.
 
Wimbo;1964470 said:
Most fingers (no thumbs). hand (twice). arm at my wrist. a couple of toes. one rib. I agree with Hos... the rib was by far the worst.
When you had the broken ribs could you find a comfortable position to sleep? I couldn't and the slightest move in the night was agony.
 
my right pointer finger and pinky finger, hairlined fractured both wrists both ankles (those suckers swelled up to the size of a softball no joke) broke 3 ribs on the right side, cracked my jaw those were all from skateboarding. i cracked my head open 2 other times, broke my right big toe open to where i could see the bone, my finger got smashed ina door and was dangling by a nerve (it was a 2" thick door). had 1 eye surgery to remove a wood chip from under my eye lid and 2 knee surguries before i turned 16 and lost 3 teeth from a fight. gotta love being young :grin2:
 
28bringinthewood;1964362 said:
I have had a broken nose from a car accident..... thats it. Now, if u ask about surgeries, that would be a whole new story.

By the way, great news about your donor...

I keep up with your page...
 
broke my little finger playing baseball in high school...
broke both bones in the lower part of my left leg....would like to say i did
it climbing the highest mountain in the world or bungee jumping from the
royal gorge bridge or racing motorcycles.....alas the true story is i was taking the garbage out ( that ice hidden under the fresh snow is sneaky).
separated my shoulder playing in an "old timers" football game for my high school, never got it taken care of, so that ended up being surgery 15 years later.
like my brother says....getting old ain't for sissies !
 
No broken bones for me either. But have had many sprained ankles from football and wrestling. Worst injury was the one that ended my Correctional Career. I tore my left achilies.
 
I got hit by a drag racing car just as it was taking off from the line and it broke my left humerous bone. The knob/ball at the top of the arm that goes into the shoulder broke completely off. I had to have a metal rod inserted from the top of my shoulder, through the bone knob, down through the center of the arm bone clear to my elbow. I had to have that in there 8 months.

As a matter of fact...in the video by NFL films about the Dallas Cowboys, there is a portion that shows when Charlie Waters broke the same bone in a game and Cliff Harris was close to him and said he heard it snap and break.

Not very fun at all.

But, the worse part of the whole deal was after everything got healed I had a hell of a time trying to "cold turkey" off the pain killers that I was on. I felt like a junkie for several weeks until it all finally wore off. Without those pain killers I would just sit in a recliner and shake and tremble...hooked on drugs!
 
Most fingers, no thumbs - football

Nose 3 times - some dudes fist after trying to help out a friend, one knee from my sister, and basketball game

2 Ribs - Easily the worst - wrestling WWE style..ha ha - went about 3 weeks without knowing what the heck was wrong - finally the wife made me go to the doc and find out. Sleeping was pretty much impossible

Right lower leg - basketball

Blew out right knee a year after the above - football
 
left ring finger-football, got stuck in a face mask during a game-hurt like heck

Nose-BIG FIST

Left Foot-?

right hand-hit the floor when q carter threw a td pass to i believe bryant (could be wrong) and still have not taken care of it. it is swollen and can sometimes feel the bone move when i move my hand certain ways
 
Broke my ankle when I landed on someone's foot while playing basketball. I broke my finger and thumb when they were severed in a door as a child (reattached). I've broken a couple of knuckles and fingers from punching things at various times during my ignorant youth.
 
Sprained an ankle after being hit by a car riding my bike when I was 10 years old. Fractured the other ankle and a wrist, both related to weight training in my 20's(too much weight and not enough warm up.) Bruised my ribs when I got mugged and robbed.

A girl broke my heart once, does that count? :D She was probably just returning the favor. :eek::
 
Hostile;1964485 said:
When you had the broken ribs could you find a comfortable position to sleep? I couldn't and the slightest move in the night was agony.

i took those ace bandages and wrapped about 4 of them around my ribs super tight so there was pressure on them and slept sitting up. if i fell over during the night the pain was pretty much null and void since i put the pressure on them
 
Left Thumb, Left ring finger, Left ankle

Right foot (Very Nasty Compound), Right Ankle, Right side cracked rib

Between my nose and the corner of eye....Military Dr's called it a broken nose :rolleyes:
 
I have broken one bone, three times (not sure a broken nose counts as a bone since it's not a "Bone", it's cartiledge).


First time:

Punched a wall, hit the stud. Just my luck. Yeah, I was an angry child (actually I was like 14 or 15).


Second time was about a month later. Was watching the movie "House" with my mother, reached over to a table on my right with my left hand (right hand is in a cast) to put down my glass of tea. All of the sudden my mother screams (scary part in the movie) and freaks me the hell out. I clenched my fists ready for whatever entity was attacking and broke the bone again (wasn't fully healed but close enough).


Third time, I got in a fight with some 20 year old (I was 15 or 16 at the time). I got him on the ground and instead of kicking him, I jumped on his back and started punching the back of his head. After the bone broke I started using my hand like a club (moron). Didn't even realize it was broken till about 10 minutes after the fight. I looked at my hand and saw a bone sticking out.



I've had my nose smashed a couple of times playing football (that's how you learn to strap on your chin strap good and tight). My nose is crooked now (one nostril is bigger than the other).




I've been pretty lucky when it comes to broken bones. *knock on wood*
 

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