Tally Up Them Broken Bones
 

I thought I had broken a lot of bones until I started reading the “What would we be surprised to know about you?” thread. Wow, lol! Fun thread with lots of interesting tidbits about HT members.

So how about tallying up your broken bones? Starting at the top of your head, list any broken bones you have had so we can see who is the klutziest homesteader around! (grins)

I’ve broken 3 arms, one falling, one playing a sport, and one from being thrown from a horse. 1 Finger from telling this huge girl that no, she could not have my ring (lol). 1 leg from being pushed off a slide. 1 rib from a car wreck and 2 toes, one from crashing into the vacuum cleaner in the dark and one from deciding I could move a heavy piece of wood furniture around with my toe (grins).

How about yall?

One.

Broke my pinky toe about 5 years ago when I smashed it into the couch with no shoes on. Hurt like a son-of-a-gun! That's it though...no other broken bones!

:-)
Shawna

Fractured eye socket and cheekbone, broken jaw, broken collarbone, 5 broken ribs, broken wrist, 3 fingers and my right hand, 2 fingers on my left hand, broken foot and broken toes on a few occassions. Also broke my nose twice, but that really isn't a bone?? About the only thing that hasn't been broke is my legs, but I did chip my kneecap once.

Michelle

Zero for me, and God willing it'll stay that way. I do have one rib that is de-attached..:P.

Kat

Oh, boy...

One hand from punching a boy in grade school who wouldn't take "no" for an answer. (he wanted a kiss, I didn't want to give it to him)

One thumb when a fertilizer bag slipped out of one hand and crunched the other hand against the side of the pickup.

Two ankles. One when I was skipping down some outdoor steps at Humboldt State and hit a banana slug. The other when I rolled my foot while I was hiking. (I was alone and crawled the mile back to the trailhead.) :grit:

I can't begin to count how many broken toes I've had. From barefoot river crossings while backpacking, from just plain ol' running around the house barefoot. From gardening barefoot... I've broken them often enough that I just stick the foot in ice water till it's good and numb, set the toe, tape it to the adjacent toe, and hope the Advil kicks in before the numbness wears off. Obviously, I haven't broken enough toes to motivate myself to wear shoes at all times. :rolleyes:

Officially, (as in, according to the dr) none.

But, I have separated the bones in my big toe at the joint (Thank you to my horse for jumping on it with his brand new shoes, LOL) and had the toenail on that toe 'surgically' removed (it was hanging by a flap of skin).

Also have had a hairline fracture on the arch of my right foot (different episode, but again, thanks to my horse).

When I was in kindergarten, I gave myself a nose job. Came running in the door to my house after school one day, slipped on the throw rug, and went skidding across the floor right into the base of the toilet (bathroom door was parallel to the front door). The dr who straightened my nose for me (mostly, can't tell it's a bit crooked unless you are trying to fit me for glasses) was amazed I hadn't broken it.

Zero for me--I've still got all my innerds too.

As for DH...he's an old rodeo cowboy with so many broken bones he quit counting. Luckily he heals good. His last one was a broken neck. That put him down pretty hard. Against all odds, he managed to walked again and is actually getting along pretty good--for a guy with a broken neck.

LOL at the stories of broken toes. Does it count if you never had it x-rayed? Far as I know I've broken only 1 bone, a metatarsal, from dropping a carton of ice cream on just the right spot on my foot. Only had that checked because it still hurt like crazy after 5 weeks.

No broken bones, plus I too have all original innards!

If you want to quibble, I did have a bit of a stress fracture in one shin once from running too much.

I have never broken anything (knock wood) that has had to be set. X-rays reveal bones that have broken but healed straight (fingers, toes, etc) but I've never had a cast that I can remember.

broke toe,ankle,finger,pelvis in 3 places and broken back.....I dont want any more broken bones....

KNOCKING ON WOOD!! none.

Hey Jen, how about a kiss?

One leg (mini bike at 13), one collar bone (playground, second grade) and one toe (it the fridge in highschool) is all I can claim. I try to be careful!

donsgal

LOL Sure. I'll rearrange your nose while I'm at it. ;)

They suspended me from school over that for "fighting", but my Dad was so proud of me he bought me a new bicycle. I remember him pulling over, looking me in the eye, and saying "honey, that boy tries anything again you knee him where it counts and then stomp on his kneecaps. Nobody gets to treat you like that. You did good."

Oh, I forgot that I fractured a bone in my foot above my left arch when I dropped a potted plant on it. (yep, barefoot again)

I was 46 before I broke my first bone, the big toe on my right foot. I was coming down stairs first thing in the morning and my heel slipped off of a tread and the others all the way to the bottom, where I lit on the landing with my big toe curled under and the weight of my body popped it.

A few years later I broke my other big toe from carrying a laundered blanket which I dropped a corner of, stepped on it and the forward momentum of my body cause my barefoot to curl my toes and body weight did the rest.

SO, my count 2.

Despite growing up on a cattle ranch on not-so-safe horses, no broken bones until my late 30s ... when I ended up with three broken ribs when a green horse wrapped me around a calf chute in an indoor arena. (At that point I mostly quit riding green horses!)

Then nothing until senior citizen status ... at that point it all caught up with me ... two successive years.

In 2003 got kicked below the left shoulder in the back ... broken ribs, punctured lung, ruptured spleen ... major surgery, naturally.

In 2004 another horse accident, not sure exactly what happened since it was a head injury and I ended up with amnesia from a few minutes before until about 24 hours later. They Xrayed and scanned ... could NOT find any broken bones even though they were positive they had to be there ... possibly a hairline fracture of the cheekbone/ eye orbit and permanantly damaged eyesight in the left eye.

I'm being a little more careful now.

Broke my pinkie toe by losing my grip on a heavily loaded roller trash can, while taking it to the curb on a cement driveway, barefoot. That was 25 years ago!

Broke my right thumb joint barehanding a softball during a game. (We won) Hmmmmm...16-17 years ago?

Broke my right ankle two Easters ago, tripping over my own feet. Broke two bones in it. I was down in Georgia by myself picking up sheep and had to drive home on it. Six hours of pure pleasure!

Broke my left kneecap last summer, once again tripping over my own feet, this time on my own porch.

That's it for me.

Meg

I broke my left middle two toes when someone slammed a door open into my bare foot when I was 10 (bent them so far backwards that once I stepped away they were just sticking straight up in the air. :eek: I've broken my left little toe five times (!), so that now the end bone has only a tiny triangular-shaped piece left.

I broke my nose when I was pregnant and passed out in the shower and hit the concrete floor face first, OUCH! It still leans slightly to the right, although most people don't notice it unless I point it out, lol.

I broke my left leg and ankle in six places when the stairs at my apartment complex broke. I've had three surgeries on it, including the original surgery with a seven-hole plate with six screws (they leave the hole right over the fracture line empty), a pin and two wires.

I just broke my right arm (I'm right-handed) at the top where it connects to the shoulder on January 13th of this year, when I tripped on the tree debris in the street left from the December ice storm. I'm still recovering and have very limited range of motion and almost no strength, and after a full day of production typing just want to curl up in a ball and cry like a baby, lol.

I sincerely hope I never break anything again! :p

[QUOTE=MountAiry;2945589]I thought I had broken a lot of bones until I started reading the “What would we be surprised to know about you?” thread. Wow, lol! Fun thread with lots of interesting tidbits about HT members.

So how about tallying up your broken bones? Starting at the top of your head, list any broken bones you have had so we can see who is the klutziest homesteader around! (grins)

I’ve broken 3 arms, one falling, one playing a sport, and one from being thrown from a horse. 1 Finger from telling this huge girl that no, she could not have my ring (lol). 1 leg from being pushed off a slide. 1 rib from a car wreck and 2 toes, one from crashing into the vacuum cleaner in the dark and one from deciding I could move a heavy piece of wood furniture around with my toe (grins).

Wow, you have 3 arms? Sorry couldn't resist.
One x-rayed break. And 2 potential breaks but did not do anything for them.

Concushion 3 times, cracked jaw, nose 5 times, ribs 2 first time, 2 second time 2 displaced thrid time. Broke left arm, spiral break in left shin, broke both ankles, several toes. Dislocated both thumbs and a hip.

And I wonder why my body aches and is stiff when it rains. :rolleyes:

Never broken anything, and I don't know how that's happened. The things I have done to my poor bones!

Well, I do think I busted my tailbone when I was sixteen; was working the horse sector of a GS camp and they had a new herd that year; apparently the man they'd hired (his horses and all) had a few dozen who'd just been out in a pasture for a handful of years with little human interaction and no riding. Guess where this is going? Yep, one angry roan "gelding" (later discovered he was NOT gelded!) ride later I was in the hospital. Dad refused ot let them xray me, though the camp was paying, and I could barely limp for weeks. It still flares up bad sometimes. Brilliant camp boss let them stay through the summer with those beasts, and though most were fine after a bit of work by the head wrangler, some were just nasty and dangerous. They were the prettiest ones too, and some little girls run straight for pretty, not knowing that pretty palomino pony loves to bite and kick. :grump: Oh, and the pretty bay who tried to trample one child and I wound up scooping her from under him and running past flying hooves and snapping teeth to get her out... but he stayed. :stars: They were constantly bringing in new horses to try, and half the time the horse they unloaded would be a stallion. Yeah. This is great for beginner eight year olds.

I have gone down whitewater rapids sans raft, fallen out of trees/off swingsets as a kid, used to walk four miles to work in the ice and snow and don't know how many times I slipped and knocked the wind out of me, but nope... nothing confirmed. :rolleyes:

Never had a broken bone. Got all my parts including my wisdom teeth :-)

When I was in elementary school, my basketball coach threw the ball at me so hard it broke my ring finger. I was wearing a ring that wouldn't come off because my finger was swelling so much. The principal and the coach had to take me down to the local mechanics shop and have the ring cut off before I could go to the doctor to have my finger seen to.

That's the extent of my broken bones.

When I was born I was a little too big to come out of my own. The doc had to yank me out with forceps and he broke my collarbone while he was at it. So I had an early start *LOL* When I was in 1st grade, my school bus was in an accident, it rolled several times down a steep hill. I broke a finger and was lucky to get off so easily. Then when I was around 20 (can't remember for sure) I was in a car wreck, my face slammed into the steering wheel sideways and I broke my jaw in two places and also broke a big chunk off of one of my molars. I had been on my way to take a cat to the vet to get neutered and he got out of his box and caused the accident. Needless to say he didn't get neutered that day *LOL* Luckily there have been no broken bones since then.

Two separate incidents of breaking bones running for the phone, a pinky toe while jumping three stairs. I was young and waiting for a call from a boy. Ran smack into a grandfather clock in the dark and broke my nose running for the phone. A broken collarbone when my brother pushed me off an embankment on my tricycle (I wasn't yet two). A broken wrist, and a broken elbow and broken pinky all from tripping.

(grins at StrangeBear)
Smartie-britches! :)

Oh my... here goes...
32 bones NOT counting fingers & toes.

Nose... broken three times. (falling/pushed down three flights of concrete stairs, car accident, combative patient in at an accident scene.)

Jaw stairs

Collar Bone one broken 2 times. one broken 3 times. car accidents & stairs again.

Ribs total of 16 accidents/stairs/football/coughing fit while pregnant.

thats 25 so far.......

right wrist fell down into a horse stall from a hay loft when I was 8 (2 days before my mothers wedding! oops!

Pelvis in two places (stair fall).

Right arm Tib & Fib break, car accident

Right Thumb scooping Baskin Robbins French Vanilla Ice cream when I was at work @ 16 yrs old (that's some hard stuff!! lol I looked like I was hitch-hiking for 8 weeks in that cast!)

Right foot smashed by a falling #10 can of re-fried beans from a top shelf! (who REALLY needs THAT many re-fried beans?!?!?)

Left foot chasing pigs back to their pen, stepped in a hole.

keep in mind the stair breaks were all at the same time.. I'm NOT that bad with stairs normally ! lol

I may have broken a pinkie toe. Never had it x-rayed. I would like to see a full body x-ray some time to see if I've broken anything I don't know about.

Football:4 Knee surgeries right knee, 1 left, 6 documented concussions, Surgery on Left shoulder, broken thumb twice, two fingers.

Boxing: Broken nose
Baseball: Broken nose
Bottle of Wild Turkey and small flight of stairs: Broken nose and severe lacerations.
Basketball: Broken right ankle

Motorcycle crash: broke arm in two places by elbow, thumb, wrist all on left arm. Left lower leg, two ribs.

Complete Clumsiness: Big toe (right foot) on coffee table

Just my big toe. And that was never "official" but what can you do anyway? I was in a car crash and apparently tried very hard to press the brake. :) I limped around for a while and still have a hard time wearing heels for very long. Oh well.

1. Broke my big toe in 5th grade when I kicked a boy who was aggravating me.

2. Broke my jaw and drove four jaw teeth through my cheek in a car accident when I was 20.

3. As for klutzy...ruptured a disk in my neck a couple years ago when I sat down on the bottom bunk and leaned back...forgetting that there was a twin buck above and behind me (you know...one of those full/twin bunks). That required major surgery.

Currently have two ruptured disks in my lower back from who knows what...I fall or hit my head on a daily basis it seems.

I broke my nose running into a pipe fence.

Broke my finger real bad, loading a horse.

Broke my hand playing football.

Broke my leg playing on a trailer.

And last and but not least, broke my big toe, acting stupid.