Category: Health and Wellness
Hi All, How many of you have broken a bone, and what is the interesting story behind it? Well, I broke my finger twice. Different fingers though. I slammed my middle finger in a door when I was eight, the day before third grade was due to start. I started screaming, and my mom rushed me into the bathroom and held my finger under cold water. Then I went to the couch and fell asleep and woke up and ate popcorn. Lol. Then we went to the doctors to have it checked, but it was just fractured, and they gave me a tiny little splint. My finger was all feverish for like a week, but then it was fine. The other time, I was in sixth grade. I was getting out of the car on the morning of November 30, 2001, and I was holding a book in one hand, and closing the door with the other, and somehow my thumb got in the way. Crunch! It took me a second to realize what had happened. And then I started freaking out. I opened the door and dislodged my finger, which was so numb it felt liek there was a really really tight skin hat on my finger, clutching at the tip of my thumb. I told my mom what had happened, and she freaked and wrapped some napkins arond my thumb, which had started bleeding. I went into the office, and they rinsed it off and put a band-aid on it. I suffered through school, somehow, thinking everything was okay. I felt the steady pulse of my finger, and the throbbing, and the band-aid was bloody but not soaked. After school, I went home and iced my thumb. But then I discovered I couldnt' bend it, which scared me half to death. My mom called the doctor while I tried to eat some salmon for dinner, which I could hardly eat I was so frightened. Lol. Then she took me to emergency and they X-rayed my thumb. Turns out it was a pretty bad break! Lol. Stupid door! I got huge splint for a few weeks, and counted the questions i got about it. 86! Then they took it off and I got a little splint. So enough talking from me. WHat about you guys? Caitlin
wow girl, youre hard on yourseolf. I have had a slamming my finger in the door insident, but the most that happened to me was that my nail fell off. I have never broken a bone, but I got a cuncussion once by running in to a pillar at school if that counts lol!
5 broken ribs 5 broken fingers and severe lacerations after an assault .
Back in elementary schol years I was going to be late for school and goodness only knows that I didn't want that to happen! *didn't want to ruin my perfect "NO Tardy" record* Anyhow, out the door I take off running and bump! catch my toe on the sidewalk of our neighbor's where it was raised up a bit. Tripped and fell and broke my left arm. It was in a metal splint like cast for about 6-8 weeks.
I broke my arm when I was running and tripped over a branch that was curved in the ground. I was a kid when that happened.
....And almost broke it again in high school tripping over a ball when we were told to run around the gym. Some idiot forgot one of the volly balls and I couldn't see the color and I tripped over it. Lucky me it was a sprain.
Hehehe ouch, you guys are roughnecks too! Hehehe jk. But yeah I forgot to mention my nail did fall off when my thumb broke the second time, in the car door. Hehehe. It was all bloody andblack underneath, and all this blood was dried up and caked in it. And my actual new nail was all short and soft, but now my nail is completely normal, except if you look really closely, you can see a sort of curve in it, very slight. Strange! Caitlin
I broke my left arm when I was 11. I had a break going horizontal and a fracture going vertical.
I've never broken bones, but i have had . . . um two? concussions before. I think that anyway. can't remember. but anyway. I got one from well I was running toward one of my friend's voices, and I ran smack into a tree. he he he stupid me. (I'm totally blind, if that helps running and smashing into a tree at all.)
I've never broken bones, but i have had . . . um two? concussions before. I think that anyway. can't remember. but anyway. I got one from well I was running toward one of my friend's voices, and I ran smack into a tree. he he he stupid me. (I'm totally blind, if that helps running and smashing into a tree at all.)
Lol Alison...you can't remember how many concussions you had, that's kind of ironic!! Hehehe jkjkjk xoxoxoxox. Anyway ouch! Same for you, Catwoman...Harsh!!! On that note, Merry Xmas! Caitlin
lol lets see. I haven't broke a single bone in my life so far, but well I almost did. One day I was playing with my cousin, perhaps I was 9 years old. I tripped over a table that was supposeddly to decorate the room, I needed to catch the ball, and boom! I just did bump my face right about my right eye, in that little curve right beside it... well I don't know how do you call it, but anyway my uncle put cream and a kind of a band to it and it was fine, I still have the deformed bone, you cannot notice it unless you look very close or compare it with my left eye.
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Well, I almost broke my 3 fingers the middle and third finger as well as my pinky. Because, I was helping mom put the clothes I bought for school on the back seat of the car. As I was doing that, the heavy door slammed on my hand hard since the wind blew 50 miles per hour that sunday.
Luckilly, I didn't brake it but whenever I bent my fingers, it felt like the bone was moving a lot even if istretched it. it was so painful, i couldn't type very well in class. it hurt so much that i would litterally cry because of the excruciating pain. everyone noticed the scars on them and kept asking me what happened. They were swollen and feverish. thy sweled up to the size ofa very fat thumb of a big man. the one who fractured the most was the middle andthird finger.I was 18 at the time and in college for the first semester. I have a dent on my pinky between the joint and my hand, and a red scar on my other fingers. and dents still.i think those dents won't go away, but oh well.
sometimes it hurts and they get very tense. and I can't type loosely at times.
that's why i sometimes need someone to help me take notes because of that.
ouwhwhwhwhwhchy! I haven't broken any bones, but I had an operation on my nose when I was 13 and they removed a whole bone which shouldn't've been there, but was there because of my eye/facial medical condition which buggered half my face and head. When I was a baby, doctors thought they'd have to fracture my skull because my fontanelle or Soft Spot was taking a long time to fuse together. I also had a bone graft from my hip to my top teeth under the skin when I was nine because again, the doctors thought they'd all come loose when I was older. I think that and the operation on my nose were the most painful I've evewr experienced!
I've broken bones in my left ankle twice when I was younger. I also know that a member of my family broke her foot and the doctors didn't find it on the x-rays until the third set, she'd been walking around on it for over a year by then, and nearly had to have an operation on it, in fact she still might!
I've broken both elbows. One while roller skating. It was a nice clean break that didn't require surgery. The other one I broke just by being a klutz and stepping off a curb wrong and falling and actually landing on my arm and shattering the elbow. That one required surgery and morphine for the pain. I still have the screws in that elbow even though the doctor told me I could have them removed if I wanted. But I don't want more surgeries because between eye surgeries and recent foot surgeries, I've had enough.
Back in eighth grade, I broke my right collarbone in gym class. We were running laps, and I was running sighted guide with a girl who had never even walked with a blind person before, let alone done laps like this. She forgot that she couldn't cut corners, so I was on her right side, and slammed into the bleachers at shoulder height. It broke the colalrbone, and I spent a week in a brace. Then, just as it was healing, I got woken up from a nap by the phone, reached for it with my bad arm, and rebroke the same bone all over again. It hurt worse the second time, because I'd broken newly healing bone, and also because the second time it fractured at an agle. Then I was in the brace, plus a sling. Ugh.
Ouch! I'm cringing at the very thought of this lot!
Literally smashed my knee playing hockey last year. Fucking painful!!!
I've never broken a bone before, but if someone broke their arm who was a cane user. How the hell would they get around? Just a thought.
If they only broke one arm, they could cane with the other one. I had to do that when I broke my collarbone, because moving that arm meant moving that bone, so they put my right arm in a sling. I caned with my left.
Hi, when in 6th grade, we were playing this game in gym class, and we had to run from one side of this mat to the other, I weighed about 60 pounds at the time. Well I somehow tripped and fell on my left sholder. Well then my friend who was 100 pounds heavyer than me, tripped and fell on me, and crack, there went my left collar bone. Try doing homework on a brailler with one hand for 6 weeks while your arm is strapped to your body very slow going! I did get to stay home for 2 weeks from school. But the pain, I won't ever forget.
I guess I forgot one in my earlier post, mostly because I don't remember it happening. Apparently, when I was about two, we had bunk beds in my house. I had climbed to the top bunk, and proceeded to play around up there. I'm told that I fell off, slammed the bridge of my nose into the corner of the dresser, and cracked it open. Um, ouch! i'm very glad I don't remember that one! I've heard the story from multiple family members, though. Apparently my sisters, who were five and eight at the time, were freaked out by all the blood.
Ouch, damn that would hurt like hell! I didn't break anything but one time I was late for class, came running out of the dorm and hit the wall so hard, I landed on my back and had 4 stitches in my forehead.
When I was nine or ten I broke my thumb in my stepfather's car door. We were late because he had to get gas or something before dropping me off at this summer camp thing. Well I got out of the car and went to close the door and didn't realize my left thumb was in the way, and slammed the door on it. ouch! Anyway don't ask me how i suffered through that day because i have no idea. The next morning i couldn't use my cane in my left hand so mom took me to the doctor. They xrayed my thumb and that's when we learned it was broken. I had to ware a splint for like a month after that.