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If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

Nope, never. Bones like steel *nods*

Broke my wrist during floor gymnastics.

I had broken ribs a few times, broke my collar bone once, broke my ulna once, and fractured my tibia. It's painful, but once you get it set it's pretty annoying but not so bad.........other than broken ribs, they freaking hurt when you breathe.

Also, I broke my coccyx once.......that sucked.

No, I haven't.:)

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

One. Left foot, "pinky" toe.
Walked down carpeted stairs in loose socks; slipped and slid the whole flight standing upright (sorta like Legolas on the shield). Slammed my foot into a recliner at the bottom of the stairs.

HEARD it snap, and felt instant nausea first. Managed somehow not to puke my guts up all over everything with a lot of gulping... and THEN the pain hit.

Not fun. They couldn't do anything for it and the whole top of my foot went black and blue and swollen.

Second time I broke it was nowhere near as bad.

nope not yet give it time

Also, I broke my coccyx once.......that sucked.

Either it's not as uncommon as people think, or I'm rare in that I know four people (including you) that busted their tailbone.

3 ribs, 5 toes, left upper arm,cracked the back of my skull and nose (concrete at high speed), collar bone.
I play rugby and football and race bikes.:D

One. Left foot, "pinky" toe.
Walked down carpeted stairs in loose socks; slipped and slid the whole flight standing upright (sorta like Legolas on the shield). Slammed my foot into a recliner at the bottom of the stairs.

HEARD it snap, and felt instant nausea first. Managed somehow not to puke my guts up all over everything with a lot of gulping... and THEN the pain hit.

Not fun. They couldn't do anything for it and the whole top of my foot went black and blue and swollen.

Second time I broke it was nowhere near as bad.

oh, wait, toe fractures count?! I broke my little toe so many times! Most recently I tripped on a action figure of Data and broke it badly.......ouchy.

Yes

Right femur
Right Tibia
Left Tibia
Left knee ligaments
Right wrist*
Various other sundry injuries

Result of a head on crash with a car doing 40 mph.

Did it hurt?

YES!
But only until shock set in.... they i just felt cold
Then the hospital drugged me with a large dose of painkillers.
before attempting surgery to fix all the bits (unsuccessful)

EL-Presidente Boris

* oh and the right wrist was only found when I attempted to use crutches for the first time... damned painkillers:p

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

You've just guaranteed that you will. Sorry!

I said that on my 25th birthday, and by the end of that month, I'd suffered a Maison-Neuve (spiral) fracture of my left fibula with ligament damage from my knee to my ankle. I was trying to skim-board at Long Beach, WA. It was only my second attempt. I vowed, as I was carried, shrieking, to the hospital, that I'd never try anything that involved relying on a piece of coated styrofoam ever again.

Did it hurt? Well, considering that all I wanted to do was scream...I didn't want to pause even to inhale...yes. Eight weeks in a cast + crutches, eight more in a walking cast + cane.

Either it's not as uncommon as people think, or I'm rare in that I know four people (including you) that busted their tailbone.

I was stage diving......they were letting me down from crowd surfing and dropped me........:(

I just got a stress fracture in my foot just before Nationals while training for them. One day, with a few days left in camp, my foot started to hurt. It wasn't big pain, but annoying and persistent. Never injured me let it go a few days until I was yelling in pain during bouts. Needless to say, I was in a boot for a few weeks and I missed Nationals.

I damaged the cartilage in between my ribs once, playing roller hockey. I was in goal, and a kid had a breakaway. I think he either tripped or I tripped him trying to poke check, and took a skate to the chest. It was discomforting to breath, like there was something wrong but you couldn't tell what.

Finally, while coming around the corner after a flight of stairs at school, something happened to my little arm elbow. I slipped and whirled and slammed it into the doorjam. The doctors didn't know what it should have looked like before (abnormal development and all), so they didn't know exactly what happened. I did get the nauseous feeling and almost passed out, so I think I broke something. Would a growth plate cause that reaction?

No.

Cracked my knee cap
Broken my wrist
My index finger
My little two about a million times

A bunch of fingers catching a football. Don't ask me how. Took me a few hours to realize they were broken. My pinky didn't get a splint so it's kinda bent funny.

And then my wrist last winter, snowboarding. Jumped a creek bed not realizing it was a creek bed and hit the other side. Went and found them snow patrol dudes who always cut your passes when you push your friend off the lift, filled out paperwork, went to hospital, x-ray that whole thing, but they couldn't get a good picture so the doc was like wrap it in a tensor and don't go snowboarding so I went, picked up a tensor then went back to mountain (I wasn't about to waste a week long pass). It turned out fine other than it clicks when I move it lots and I can't push as hard with it.

Ever broken a bone?None of mine.

Broken my arm once, sparring a black belt. Yeah I got my arse kicked - I was backing away, then ran out of dojo so I went to throw a kick, not wanting to go down without any fight. She did the same with the opposite leg, so we leg-locked, I went over backwards, fell badly, heard a snap... you can figure the rest. It was great - I couldn't do any school work for months :D

Broken someone else's once too - an arm again. Completely by accident. Fast moving football, hand bent backwards, bone snappage. Not fun. I felt awful. She probably felt a bit worse, but y'know, I feel hugely guilty.

I had just (as in a day or two before) learned to walk when I walked into a chair and broke my leg. The doctor put me in a cast and warned my mother that I might refuse to walk with it on, and might not even crawl, that perhaps I might have to learn all over again once the cast came off. We were in his office as he told her this, and I was sitting on Mom's lap and being fussy. She sat me down on the floor, and I promptly got up and ran out of the room. "On the other hand..." he said...

Mom said my favorite trick was to lie on my back in front of the glass doored china cabinet and tap the heel of the cast against the glass. I never broke the glass, but apparently liked the clicking noise, because she had to stop me doing it quite often.

I don't break.

Had my head slammed into a cinderblock wall, a steel support between school bus windows, a plate glass window, concrete wall. I've punched a locker hard enough to dent it and knock it open, hit metal doors hard enough to leave a row of knuckle spaced dents (both resulted in a neat looking bruise but no breaks), dropped 40-50lb parts on my right foot, dropped a 12 foot ladder on my right foot. Fell 10 feet out of a tree (knocked me out for about an hour), been in more fights than I'd care to mention.

I don't appear to be particularly breakable.

Both wrists, an arm, two toes.

Lets see...


Broke arm diving off a jungle gym in kindergarden.
Broke wrist (radius) surfing on a trombone case in 6ht grade.
Broke collarbone (and had a 3rd degree separation of the AC joint) in 10 grade.
Broke both radius, ulna, and knocked off the Scaphoid process) in 11th grade. I had to have surgery for that one. Sucky :(

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

lots of times... usually when I'm cooking or eating.

the marrow has lots of nutrients...

or are you not talking Chicken, Beef or Pork bones?

I don't break.

Had my head slammed into a cinderblock wall, a steel support between school bus windows, a plate glass window, concrete wall. I've punched a locker hard enough to dent it and knock it open, hit metal doors hard enough to leave a row of knuckle spaced dents (both resulted in a neat looking bruise but no breaks), dropped 40-50lb parts on my right foot, dropped a 12 foot ladder on my right foot. Fell 10 feet out of a tree (knocked me out for about an hour), been in more fights than I'd care to mention.

I don't appear to be particularly breakable.... Clark, is that you?

Only those of other people...

I was jumping on my tramp with my big sister one day, she bounced me higher and I landed pretty awkward on my ankle. I was in a cast for three weeks

I drink too much milk to break a bone.

I've never broken a bone either. Though I came quite close a few times and other times thought I had broken something... not broken though.

Femur (jumping onto bed from retaining wall in preschool)
Broke all but 2 of my fingers over the years,various reasons
Two or three toes

I drink too much milk to break a bone.

I grew up on a dairy farm ... I still managed to do it one way or another working

I fell into a pile of legos to break my right wrist at age five.
I slipped on a slip-and-slide to break my right ankle at age ten.
I broke my thumb at 14 playing football.
I broke two toes at 17 when I had a disagreement with the fridge.
I busted two ribs skiing at 18, belly flopped and my wallet was in my front coat pocket and filled with change.
I broke the same two toes as before at 19, by walking into a chair at the beach.

I was a disaster magnet.

Index, pointer, ring, middle fingers, thumb, neck, ribs, nose, jaw, wrist and arm.

How? I was assaulted by multiple people late at night. Beaten to a bloody pulp it would seem. 8 weeks of rehab followed.

Never broken a bone, never needed stitches, never been seriously ill.

I haven't been in a hospital since I was born.

Index, pointer, ring, middle fingers, thumb, neck, ribs, nose, jaw, wrist and arm.

How? I was assaulted by multiple people late at night. Beaten to a bloody pulp it would seem. 8 weeks of rehab followed.

Seriously?

Seriously? Quite seriously. I still have some scars.

Quite seriously. I still have some scars.

That's horrible!

:(

Do you have any idea why they did it?

Was hit by a car 2 1/2 years ago. My left femur broke near the crown, and is still broken to this day. They can't fix it because it would require a hip reconstruction and my bones are too weak to make such a surgery feasible.

That's horrible!

:(

Do you have any idea why they did it? Because of jealous envy. (Of what, I have no clue...)

Was it a bunch of White people?

Was it a bunch of White people?Actually... yes it was. O.o

Actually... yes it was. O.o

Those damn crackers. I say kill em all. Better for all of us.

I had sitches once. Was but a small child.

Those damn crackers. I say kill em all. Better for all of us. LMFAO. :p

Those darn White folk.

Because of jealous envy. (Of what, I have no clue...)

So it was probably a random act of violence huh?

So it was probably a random act of violence huh?

White people are more prone to violence then other races.

Never broke a major bone - broke my pinky toe more times than I can count, but you can't really do anything for that. I rather wish I had broken my ankle instead of tearing the living shit out of it, the damn thing would probably healed cleaner. I've been told that once you tear ligaments like I did, they never heal right, and I'm living proof of that, over fifteen years out.

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So it was probably a random act of violence huh? No I was targeted.

break my little toe alot.

broke 3 meditarsils when I got my foot stuck in an escalator.

my knee cap. And I messed up my finger once, but that was a ligament thing.

When I was five I was dared to jump out of my friends treehouse, so I did...and landed OK.

So I jumped again...and again...and again...and then broke my left arm.

I also broke a rib...I was walking in the street, slipped on some ice, and my right side hit the curb...hit it really well, actually. :p

I probably broke a toe or two and never bothered to actually find out about it.

Ultra-dense bones. Only ever broke my left arm when I jumped off a kiddie ride machine at ~age 5. Sprained a lot of stuff since then, but never broke any more(although I found out last year that apparently I've stress-fractured enough of one vertebra to generate new bone growth.

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-
I got my right zygomatic bone next to the orbita broken by a fist I didn't duck.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/Orbital_bones.png/250px-Orbital_bones.png

That thing in blue...

Sure I did. Lots of 'em. I had opened a skull with a hacksaw; crushed the 2nd to 7th ribs with a big pliers, and hammer a jaw and the cheekbone.




Anatomy is fun. ;)

When I was five I was dared to jump out of my friends treehouse, so I did...and landed OK.

So I jumped again...and again...and again...and then broke my left arm.

I also broke a rib...I was walking in the street, slipped on some ice, and my right side hit the curb...hit it really well, actually. :p

I probably broke a toe or two and never bothered to actually find out about it.

Similar thing happenned to me, except when I slipped I found the sidewalk to be pretty damn comfy so I figured I'd take a snooze. My buddy freaked out, thinking I was unconscious or dead so I stood up, onl to freak him out even more with a bloody, scraped up face (really scraped, up both sides, the forehead, all of it). I found it a pretty entertaining day actually.

I was jumping on my tramp with my big sister one day, she bounced me higher and I landed pretty awkward on my ankle. I was in a cast for three weeks

OK, am I the only one who read this and pictured two kids pounding the heck out of Charlie Chaplin in a hobo suit?

White people are more prone to violence then other races.

Well, THAT is an interesting statistic. Where did you come by it? :rolleyes:

In second grade, I knocked down a bully and stomped on his nose. Twenty years later, his nose is still crooked.

OK, am I the only one who read this and pictured two kids pounding the heck out of Charlie Chaplin in a hobo suit?
Nope. :p

Never broken a bone. Nearly broke both wrists once, in an incident involving a bridge, rain and my own stupidity. Just severely sprained them instead. Hurt like hell, even more so after then going to see Rammstein a few days later and joining in the mosh...

I broke my foot when I was four. I was on holiday in India and my grandad and dad were trying to teach me how to ride a bike. They pushed me along then let go to see if Icoul cntinue. I swung my right foot forward. Next thing I know my foot is between some spoks whil the wheel is turning very fast. I heard a loud crack as I was dragged off the seat n hit he ground. I looked at my foot which was covered in blood and at a weird angl. Next thing I remember is waking up lying in a hospital bed with my foot bandaged up. I had crutches but my mum carried me almost everywhere.

I've broken both wrists, though not at the same time.

Several ribs on several different occasions.

And my nose twice.


Ribs and the nose were the worst. My wrists were just minor fractures and healed within a week or two.

I had a bone sticking out of my elbow once and I broke my skull.


Worst pain was when I tore my ACL (Ligament, isn't ACL a ligament?) when I was playing baseball, by swinging at the ball wrong. I have to limp to walk :(

I was trying to reach a bad ball down in the zoneeeeeeee andddd OWWWW

I have broken my left wrist once and both my ankles (not at the same time) twice each plus several sprains. The vast majority of them were sports related injuries.

Broke the fourth finger on my right hand 17 years ago, catching a football during gym class. American football not a soccer ball.

Worst pain was when I tore my ACL (Ligament, isn't ACL a ligament?)
Anterior cruciate ligament.

No, but I was in a small car accident once.

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

Nope. Never.

Never. *looks at body weirdly and looks at everyone around him with casts and the like*

Broke my collar bone a long time ago.

I've got Adamantium bones.:p

And all those English names for your bones scare me, they're difficult with all those x's.:(

Collarbone, rugby match, first five minutes :p

Collarbone, rugby match, first five minutes :p
I once saw (and heard) someone break their leg in a rugby match. That was not pleasant...especially for him because, as if it weren't bad enough breaking your leg (and having the bone sticking out through your sock), one of his team-mates threw up on him when he saw it.

I've never broke a bone. I would prefer a bone over this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_penis)though.

I broke my right foot running out of the ocean. I fell into a hole in the sand.

I also broke my left knee cap and possibly chipped my pelvis playing capture the flag. I ran into a rock. I kept playing.

Either it's not as uncommon as people think, or I'm rare in that I know four people (including you) that busted their tailbone.

I know two IRL, too. Umm, I know a lot of people who try to learn how to inline-skate past the age of 30?


Myself, I've so far only done the obligatory pinky toe(s) and the pinky / ring / middle finger (volleyball). Knock on wood, I guess, because I've done a lot of rough-ish sports in my life and the scars all over me still testify taht I was a very wild child.

Oh, and I've sustained a hole in the head when I played basketball outside on a rough court, fell down, and then had someone accidentally kick a stone against my skull.

Myself, I've so far only done the obligatory pinky toe(s) and the pinky / ring / middle finger (volleyball).
Yeah, except I never even managed to break even one of my fingers, I'd always just have the casts for sprains and almost-fractures and crap. Only ever on the left arm, too, which meant I never got out of written exams. *still bitter*

My siblings and I have been lucky, I don't think any of us have broken any major bones. My mom broke her back once, and you don't even want to know about the nightmare that was my grandma's leg after the pit bull got through with her. (Open, spiral, tib-fib break.) But overall, we've done all right as far as bones go.

negative...

i broke my left arm when i was about 8, don't remember how though. broken my pinkies several times, the last time making a save in 5-a-side indoor footie when i was about 11 or 12. last broken bone i had was my nose when i got beaten up for trying to split up a fight. i might have fractured my scull a couple of years ago but i never went to the hopital so i don't know, the lump that is still there suggests there was some damage though.

oh, and i broke my big toe by dropping a 50 odd litre keg of guiness on it.

I've never broke a bone. I would prefer a bone over this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_penis)though. Penile fracture? :eek:

If so, what was it? How did it happen?

I happen to be the only one in my family that has never broken a bone. -knocks on wood-

Yep.
Left wrist, going down a flight of stairs with school books.

Sternum plate, while wrestling with a girl and a friend of mine, to find how flexible she was.

Left index finger, from a sandline hook holding a 20' drill steel as it bounced off my boss's head and the back of the flatbed.

I might've broke other bones, but i don't remember them.

Penile fracture? :eek:

I'm threatened with that a lot, subtly. :p

I've broken 3 fingers, a thumb, a rib & torn my anterior cruciate ligament in my knee playing sport. I also broke my arm from crashing my bike.

I've broken my wrist playing soccer, several fingers doing several things and my cheekbone running into a brick wall.

Nothing too major - surprising since I used to play rugby, but my breaks are:

* Both index fingers and one thumb (at the same time)
* Cracked rib
* Cracked shoulder blade (at the same time as the rib)
* Coccyx (most painful of the bunch)

While they aren't breaks, I did dislocate both big toes - was lucky they weren't torn off. Riding on the back of a friend's bike when I was a kid. Wasn't wearing shoes, toes went into the spokes...

Nope.

But I did break wind one time....

Left index finger, from a sandline hook holding a 20' drill steel as it bounced off my boss's head and the back of the flatbed. Do I want to know what happened to your boss's head? ><

Only the odd finger and toe to be honest. Considering I've played Rugby for 7 years, I've been bloody lucky (well, and I play on the wing and "avoid" rucks when possible:p).

I've started breaking bones as young as infant-age. Look at nearly all my toes. 24 years later, they're still rather funky looking.

Broke my right femur bone while popping a wheelie on my bike at five years old. Somehow, lost balance, leg got caught somewhere in the bike and the most excruciating pain I've ever known felt. Landed in the middle of the street, screaming my head off. Stepdad came out to get me, while my mom was only gone five minutes down the road to the store. She remembers seeing the ambulance going by and saying, "No way..."

And I was there, screaming at the doctors to not cut my jeans cuz my mom had just gotten them for me and saying that she'd kill them if they did it. Eventually, mom told me, "It's ok, they have to do this!"

Then, about five years later, I broke my wrist jumping off some monkey bars and the wrist slamming against a support pole for the bars. I thought I had sprained it and so that night, I went to play some Little League baseball. All was good until I went up to bat. Couldn't swing with both hands, so, smart me decides to bat using one hand.

Strangely, that was the only time I ever made a home run in Little League.

I did get confronted after that though, and finally went to the hospital to get it checked out.

At least I have my home run lol.

As for other people, I've only broken one idiot's nose. Strange that he went about the next day with a huge bandage on his face and saying he kicked my ass. Twerp.

Oh, and I nearly killed my brother with a baseball bat. He still bears the thirty or so stitches on his forehead. Ironically, he went on to play catcher for little league baseball. I thought I was going to jail for murder...

And I was upset I wouldn't get to play with my Legos if it came to that...

First one wasn't actually a broken bone. A dislocated elbow at three thanks to my Dad swinging me over a curb by my arm. The doc said it was a common mishap and to henceforth to allow me to step up on the curb.

Age eight I broke a rib in a bicycle accident.

Age ten a nasty compound fracture of fibia and tibia in a pedestrian/dirt bike disagreement.

Several busted knuckles due to punching things harder than bone. And I wonder why I developed arthritis in my hands so early.

Age nineteen major surgery on both upper and lower jaw. Actually sawn through rather than broken.

More recently, a majorly mangled toe from kicking funiture. In my sleep.

And a broken knee from a car wreck. And I was wearing my seatbelt.

Bitchkitten, how are you still moving?

I've only ever broken my skull and possibly my nose. It's only possibly because I never had it looked at but it's a bit off centre and I can squish it all over my face :p

Mine, no.

Smashed up both the lower bones in my right leg getting run over by a moped, hurt like hell when i did it but after they set it its just annoying