Broken Bones

[Dan_Ashley]

1964 wrist--wrestling in high school
1968 pinky right hand--punching a guy
1978 back--altercation attempting to arrest attempted murder suspect. (He ultimately got 35 years)
1994 shoulder dislocated 3 cracked ribs--went down
2009 right foot--fell off a pebble

 

[NancysToy]

Broke an arm when I tripped over a dog that playfully ran between my legs. The new young doc that set it later became my wife's gynecologist.

Broke my finger fighting with my brother over a basketball. (Don't throw a left when he is throwing a right.) Then sat down with my brother for the next twenty minutes to get our stories straight so Mom wouldn't yell at us before she took me to the ER.

Broke two fingers when smashed between the school door handles, when I was opening the door for a girl I wanted to impress. I don't think the cuss words impressed her, but the assistant principle sure took notice.

Broke my tailbone trying to ride sitting on a skateboard. Broke it again when sledding, when the moms in the Cub Scout troop dared me to go down a killer hill during a Cub Scout outing. I am a sucker for a pretty face.

Broke three ribs while kick starting a Honda 305 Scrambler. How you can break ribs starting a bike you can kick over with your bare hand, I'll never know.

Nancy had her ribs separated from her sternum when our son kicked too hard while she was pregnant. She has forgiven him, but thinks of him whenever they slide out of place.

She also shattered her right tibia into 14 pieces lengthwise, through the tibial plateau. Indirectly my fault, and no laughing matter. She has had five surgeries on that one.

 

[bruiser]

Broken left little finger caught in blast door.
Broken tib/fib left leg 4 places, cracked tib right leg during hurricane cleanup. Titanium rod and screws.
Severely pulled/torn ligaments right knee, rear motorcycle tire hit rut, put foot down and snapped leg back. Drove 1800 miles cross country next day. As Spock would say "the pain"
Cracked bruised ribs, cracked, bruised bloody nose, thrown from horse.
Severely bruised right ankle, torn ligaments, bad parachute landing.
Concussion, 18 stitches in head and 10 in chin. Hit with steel pipe.
Pinned in roof collapse while fighting house fire, bruised back, coccyx from SCBA pack.
Dislocated shoulder, fell from fuselage of F4D in Viet Nam.

 

[NancysToy]

Broken left little finger caught in blast door.
Broken tib/fib left leg 4 places, cracked tib right leg during hurricane cleanup. Titanium rod and screws.
Severely pulled/torn ligaments right knee, rear motorcycle tire hit rut, put foot down and snapped leg back. Drove 1800 miles cross country next day. As Spock would say "the pain"
Cracked bruised ribs, cracked, bruised bloody nose, thrown from horse.
Severely bruised right ankle, torn ligaments, bad parachute landing.
Concussion, 18 stitches in head and 10 in chin. Hit with steel pipe.
Pinned in roof collapse while fighting house fire, bruised back, coccyx from SCBA pack.
Dislocated shoulder, fell from fuselage of F4D in Viet Nam.

Perhaps you should change your handle from Bruiser to Bruised. :roflblack:

 

[Doktor]

My last one was the absolute stupidest one. I had been to the range shooting and started cleaning my weapons, got a couple finished, and went and got a soft drink. I picked up one of my North American Arms .22 caliber revolvers, it hadn't been shot, but still needed to be cleaned. I was taking the cylinder pin out carefully pulling the hammer back to set the firing pin in the safety slot. I hadn't got to the set point when the hammer fell forward, the cartridge apparently had a light primer because it discharged and shot through my right index finger blowing diagonally through the first bone and exiting through the first knuckle. I drove myself to the emergency room with a towel held tight around my hand. My wife was holding pressure on my hand all the way.
The cop in the ER, was quite curious as to how it all went down, but I was less than interested in him accomplishing his paperwork, than I was in trying to get my hand put back together again. Mine was the most unique gunshot I ever dealt with...........


Doc

 

[Pappazippy]

I broke my left arm as a kid running from a angry bull, I grabbed for a limb in a tree to climb and it snapped off. I fell and my arm snapped. The bull ran up to me as I lay on the ground and with a big snort snotted me and walked off. I broke a femur in high school football. I heard he still limps a little.

 

[Bob Denman]

Perhaps you should change your handle from Bruiser to Bruised. :roflblack:

Or "Bruisee"

 

[bruiser]

Yep. I could change it. Bruiser is a derivative of my last name and the background I had on active duty. I've had this nickname for a looooong time.

 

[Flanker]

Fell off a swimming pool cus: happens) once and broke my R arm. Another time I was getting dressed to go somewhere with my Ex, I just stuffed my 9mm (18 + 1 rounds) in my cross draw/thumb break shoulder holster, and bent over to tie my shoe. I hadn't gotten the thumb snap fastened on my holster, so the pistol screams out of the holster as I bend forward, and falls backside first directly on one of my left toes (didn't have that shoe on yet). Broke my toe and as an added bonus I got to find out the mechanical safety on my pistol worked as advertised, as I had a round in the chamber, and when the pistol landed on my toe, I was looking straight down the barrel at the hollow point in the chamber! :yikes: My toe was so painful a few days later; I went to a local podiatrist. When I explained what happened he laughed at me in a very unprofessional manner. :joke: Oh, yea! And I broke my R leg in '07 jumping 85 buses with my ZX14. You probably never heard about it, because the jerk production company who was gonna produce and publish the video was eaten by zombie lobsters. So..........................I broke my leg AND didn't get to be YouTube famous. What are the odds?

 

[Bob Denman]

And I broke my R leg in '07 jumping 85 buses with my ZX14. You probably never heard about it, because the jerk production company who was gonna produce and publish the video was eaten by zombie lobsters. So..........................I broke my leg AND didn't get to be YouTube famous. What are the odds?

That's a great story !:thumbup: The odds would be about the same as us believing it... :roflblack::joke::roflblack:

 

[otter28169]

I played football and soccer in high school. I have worked on farms, bounced in bars, and been a volunteer fireman. I boxed in college, and even did a little kick boxing. I was never hurt in any of those activities. I have: had a concussion from a plywood jump built in the middle of a sledding hill and covered with 8 inches of fresh snow, broken the carpal bones in my right hand on my brother's head, and dislocated my hip in marching band.

 

[Bob Denman]

"dislocated a hip in Marching Band"??? :shocked:
There has SO got to be a story lurking...

 

[Spyder_Cowgirl]

None for Me -- Hubby Has a "Few"

Personally, I have no breaks to report. However, my husband does -- below, the reason he is known in some circles as "crash dummy"

Back in January 2012, my husband (aka spydercowboy, or hogcowboy on some "other" forums) got caught in a torrential downpour on a country road here in North Central Texas. It was a "farm to market" road that was paved but had some REALLY bad patches because of all the oil industry traffic. He doesn't remember exactly what happened -- just that he couldn't see and waking up in the ditch. We figure he hit a bad patch of pavement in the first half of an "S" curve that put upset the bike and he was unable to correct it because of the wet conditions. Bike slid off the road and then, we think, rolled down a small incline into the ditch (with hubby rolling along with it). The result?

• Concussion
• 8 broken vertebrae (2 Cervical, 4 Thoracic, and 2 Lumbar)
• Broken left scapula
• 2 ribs broken on the right side
• Shattered right ankle

Thanks to good gear, including helmet, he was NOT paralyzed but did spend 5 weeks in the hospital / rehab before coming home in a wheel chair. Several surgeries later (5, I think), with the last being a bone graft because the leg / ankle never healed ... this is what his right leg looks like (good luck getting this through airport security nojoke ):

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: I'm jhealous! None of MY x-Rays have ever looked so... eventful! :yikes:

 

[otter28169]

"dislocated a hip in Marching Band"??? :shocked:
There has SO got to be a story lurking...

I was in the drumline, playing snare drum. Drummers do it with rhythm. Drummers know how to handle their sticks.

Just sayin'............

 

[mowin]

Well, I guess I'll share... In 1978 when I was 13 I chased a soccer ball in the road, and proceeded to put a very large dent in the passenger side door of a car and at the same time receiving a compound fracture of the left leg and breaking my right ankle. Was in the hosp for 2 1/2 months and have had 6 surgery to repair the mess. Surgery #7 is scheduled for November 18th....

 

[retread]

Over a 6 year span, nose broken 5 times, I finally learned to stop leading with my face!
In '68, spent 13 hours on a table having my left wrist repaired and hand reattached, no bones broken, though.

john

 

[Bob Denman]

I was in the drumline, playing snare drum. Drummers do it with rhythm. Drummers know how to handle their sticks.

Just sayin'............

:clap: Frank Zappa would be proud...

 

[PrairieSpyder]

I'm impressed with all your stories. I've gone flying from horses that decided to stop before me, but never broke anything, fallen from trees as a kid, but never broke any bones - until...
I broke my tailbone when I slipped on smooth wet concrete trying to catch the phone. I didn't even realize it until months later when a chiropractor did some ex-rays. Later, I broke a neck vertebrae in a car accident.

 

[arris]

Broken bones

On Sept 3rd I fell on my driveway and broke my left hip. The only way to repair it was to put a pin in it. I also broke my left wrist. That is in a cast and comes off on the 16th of this month.I was riding my quad and doing things I usually don't do I broke my right ankle in two places and broke my leg at the same time.. A brace was put in my right ankle with screws. Like they say, there is (THERE IS NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL)