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Rojo mentioned not having broken any bones. So I thought I'd ask about y'all about that. What bones did ya break growing up. Here I'll go first. I broke my right collar bone doing a dive roll in gym class over 6 people in the seventh grade. And in the 8th grade I broke the other collar bone while jumping off a small train at Santa's Village (it was a school outing at a theme park). If you've broken any collar bones you know how painful they can be. It was then I decided not to break any more.
Long story about it, so I;ll skip that part and just get to it. My Sister jumped on my back when I was 4 years old, yep broke BOTH collar bones. Don't know how painful it was. All I remember is waking up in the doctors office, that was 1947 haven't broke any since then.
Never as a kid and made it all the way to 48, then the motorcycle wreck. External fixator for shattered wrist looks worse than it felt. The 11 broken ribs were the WORST!
Then the ankle in April of 2022. Ran over my own ankle with my own ATV - Long Story but didn't let the boot slow down the fishing.
I've never broken any. I've been lucky.
With my history it might be easier to tell what hasn't been broken.:Rofl
I've made it to 71 years old and no broken bones yet. Hopefully it stays like that.
Broke bones in my foot playing basketball, went for a rebound and landed on top of someone's foot. Sounded like a 22 rifle being shot. Years later after getting X-rays the Dr asked me if my foot had been crushed?
I don't recall having broken bones, either. If I did have one, I probably suffered through it stupidly.
Made it through growing up with one fractured arm, wore a cast one summer. Then at fifty two I hit the jackpot, be shorter to list what didn’t break.
All motorcycles. Think I may have finally learned my lesson, haven’t been on one in a couple of years now.
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I broke a small bone in my left wrist playing volleyball on a muddy court when I was 18. Busted my butt and tried to catch my fall. I went 10 days before I went to the Dr. It was hard to ignore the swelling and my arm getting black to almost my elbow!
Dr put a cast on it immobilizing my thumb to the joint. I kept working at UPS overnight shift. After a few weeks, the x-ray showed it wasn’t healing. Dr put a bigger cast on, immobilizing both my thumb to the nail and my index finger to the 1st joint. Couldn’t work with that thing.
Dr got concerned when it still wasn’t healing and started talking about doing surgery to repair it. Finally after 19 WEEKS in that cast, it healed enough to get the cast off. My arm was so atrophied that I could take my thumb and finger of my right hand and make a circle touching them almost to my elbow!
The day after I got the cast off I shot my first buck and had to drag it thru LBL woods over 1/2 mile. My arm swelled up big time. Nobody ever accused me of using good judgement until I was well into my 20s.
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Left collar bone, riding a dirt bike, in my mid 30's.
Fingers and toes. All from sports. Football, wrestling, Rugby and martial arts. I found out the hard way that a broken big toe will put you on crutches
Ringer finger right hand , line drive bad hop
Left elbow fell while jumping over a bush trying to escape an agitated hornet nest.
My nose playing touch football, drove the center back in my face on the snap , that smarted for sure
3 bones on my right hand on a fellas face that thunk he was something special
…..but they needed more sutures than anything else for me ….…
I got so many stitches from literally , head to toe it ain’t even funny :yikes
Jumped out of our boat one day barefooted to land us on shore and in about 2 fow was a broken bottle, it bought took my big toe completely off ….remember that one really well for sure :banghead
I broke both ankles as a youth playing sports. I broke both great toes simultaneously being stupid. I broke fingers on a grain elevator at Grandmas farm. I broke 4 ribs on the left side wrestling.
I broke my wrist when I was 6, tore all my legiments and tendens in my ankle in football. Tore up my thumb pretty good trying to ride bulls. Got kicked in the temple by a horse.
I had a Honda XR-250 which was very good in the woods, but I found out they weren't nearly as good on a motocross track. I got a wild hare about riding a moto race and so I did. Between the XR-250 and my lack of skill, I managed to break some bones. All of my competitors were younger than I was and it was in the middle of the season, so they did have some experience on me. After one lap I was in last place and decided that I wasn't going to let that happen. It was a bad mistake to think that. I charged into the whoops and lost total control of my bike. When I was being x-rayed at the ER, I asked the technician how many ribs were broken, and she replied that to her untrained eye she could count six. I never did ask the doctor what the official count was though. As mentioned in a previous post that broken ribs were the worst, I have to agree. I put the pain level right up there with kidney stones.
Needless to say, that was the end of my motocross career. I did go on to race two hare scrambles and won both in my class.
No breaky breaky for Pappy. nonono
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Great thread, great stories, some sounding pretty terrible, thanks for sharing. Ain't life wonderful, the up, the downs, and even the recovery from broken bones. At least you got a story about it to share, right!
If you were asking stitches, staples, and new parts I’d be in rare territory.
Every year I was in school I was voted most likely to get stitches. Still don’t know why?
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Broke an ankle at 5. Drug the cast off had to get it replaced. Lol. I was busy
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too many. Left arm, 2 left toes, pelvis, arm, shoulder, vertebrae, skull, wrist, ribs, nose.
Jim
Broken leg, broken finger, broken toe, basal skull fracture with spinal fluid leaking in ear(bad car wreck) and 3 cracked ribs. All done at different times over 45 yrs..
Right wrist. Slid out of a treehouse platform and was lucky. I just missed a rock at the bottom of it. I still get sweaty palms at heights over 70 yesrs later.
Bob
Left wrist first day ever playing football . Right ankle last day of playing football . Nose and same right ankle in Auto wreck on scenic loop at Grenada .