Off Topic: Broken Bones

55 responses to “Off Topic: Broken Bones”

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   welbot

   February 26, 2013 at 11:02 am

   I fell 20 feet head first on to concrete when I was 5, and all I got was this lousy little scar on my temple.

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   1. 

      beardshamans

      February 26, 2013 at 11:49 am

      What?

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         welbot

         February 26, 2013 at 12:13 pm

         I slipped of a diving board hanging over a cliff/pool at my grandmothers neighbours house on xmas eve.

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   bob

   February 26, 2013 at 11:04 am

   While I’ve broken both bones in my right arm and dislocated my wrist all in one go, collapsing a lung 3 times is far worse.

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3. 

   35

   February 26, 2013 at 11:05 am

   I may have broken a toe once. (totally hardcore, I know.) thats the only break…

   had to quit playing football (the proper kind) coz I busted up the ligaments in my left knee during a match.
   got a scar from falling into the corner of a table when I was learning to walk.
   got a scar on my forehead from getting whacked in the head with a thrown rock.

   thats about it. nothing too exciting.

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4. 

   misterb

   February 26, 2013 at 11:06 am

   How about 46 broken bones all in One shot. Now that Huuurt!
   Still walking, still look normal and barely a scar to be seen.
   And still no drugs (medications) to be found here.

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      bob

      February 26, 2013 at 11:08 am

      go on… how?

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      benj

      February 26, 2013 at 11:32 am

      It’s just not right to post that without a story!

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      weresmurf

      February 26, 2013 at 12:27 pm

      More indepth story or it didn’t happen!!!! (Was gonna say pics or that’d be too much lol!)

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   4. 

      misterb

      February 27, 2013 at 9:48 am

      Well it was a car crash with a stobie pole at 100km very late at night when something BIG hit my car that was not a car, but it was BIG said the enquiry and they never did find out what it was.
      It killed me but i made it back.
      My car was completely crushed.
      Broke my Arm, many places, Toes where crushed, Most ribs and Sternum, Skull various times, Cheek, Back in various places and a few less serious places,
      Docs said, “I think we found them all” lol
      3 minor operations and 3 years of Physio and now I am back and looking pretty normal, nature did the rest.
      I wanna be Dues EX though. Gimme my Robotic parts dammit. lol

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5. 

   hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian

   February 26, 2013 at 11:06 am

   Only had a couple of broken bones, but I have more scars then I care to count.

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6. 

   spaghett

   February 26, 2013 at 11:07 am

   I broke my wrist at primary school running up some steps delivering the school newsletter

   My arm looked like a Z

   They gave me an icepack and sent me back to class

   My dad is much like your brother @markserrels

   He has a fractured spine, is actually missing the point from one of his elbows *fell out of a tree and smashed it*

   That man has broken everything

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7. 

   dnr

   February 26, 2013 at 11:11 am

   Never broken a bone myself.
   Crashed a couple cars when i was a kid (wrote them off) walked away both times unhurt
   Many scars on my head from, marbles/scissors/concrete/metal grates in school.
   Small scar on my eyebrow (mate punched me when we was messing around)
   Small round scar on my thigh from a .22 round when i was 6
   Scar about 4 inch’s long on my other thigh fell out of a tree and got snagged on a sharpe peice of wire on the way down.
   Scar on my chest from a kitchen knife wielding ex
   Small scar from a dropped knife in my upper thigh
   no feeling in the big toe of my right foot, sliced the tendons/nerves when i was a kid on somthing sharp in a swimming hole.
   Dislocated my left pinky finger playing indoor soccer
   Dislocated jaw during a altercation with a family member
   Compressed vertibrae in my back from Skating accident

   just a few off the top of my head, i lived a very exciting childhood 😀

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   1. 

      tigerion

      February 26, 2013 at 12:42 pm

      Scar on my chest from a kitchen knife wielding ex

      Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 0.0

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8. 

   badger

   February 26, 2013 at 11:11 am

   I’ve had a tonne of near misses, mostly caused by rampant stupidity and disregard for safety, but I’ve somehow miraculously avoided serious injury pretty much every time. The only time I’ve actually broken a bone was when the wind blew a door shut on my finger, and that’s just lame.

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9. 

   freezespreston

   February 26, 2013 at 11:12 am

   Broken collar bone from a Rammstein mosh.

   Slipped and fell playing baseball in high school and had spiral fractures in 2 of the bones in my palm. That was fun.

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10. 

    f4ction

    February 26, 2013 at 11:15 am

    Broken toes frequently.
    Cracked the back of my skull open when I was young.
    Broke some bones in my wrist thanks to a car accident.

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11. 

    ftwstewieg

    February 26, 2013 at 11:16 am

    Here goes. Broken every single finger on both hands at least once, had a dislocated thumb for over 2 years (no one thought it was injured and i just had a funky thumb) fractured my skull at 18 months of age ending in major brain surgery, broken every toe at least once, had multiple instances of fractured ribs, had a fractured arm and hand. Thats all i can remember as far as broken/fractured things and it is all thanks to osteoporosis which i was diagnosed with at a very young age was told i had the bone density of a 94 year old at the age of 8.

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    1. 

       fatshadylive

       February 26, 2013 at 11:21 am

       Was just about to make a joke about maybe drinking more milk and now I feel bad.. that sucks. take care of yourself.

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          ftwstewieg

          February 26, 2013 at 11:43 am

          All good have heard it a number of times before and TBH i probably should drink more milk.

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             badger

             February 26, 2013 at 12:30 pm

             So you’re kind of like Mr Glass from Unbreakable? That sucks.

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       dnr

       February 26, 2013 at 11:49 am

       too busy being a cool 80’s guy to cure your boneitis…

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12. 

    ash

    February 26, 2013 at 11:17 am

    Fractured my skull when I was a kid….

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13. 

    fatshadylive

    February 26, 2013 at 11:20 am

    Fractured wrist skateboarding (used my hand as a brake), dislocated my left little finger twice (both different joints) and now I can’t straighten my finger and there is still a small chip of bone in there loose. Apart from that nothing major so that is cool.

    I’ve got no cartilage in my knee but that doesn’t impress the ladies so I don’t make a big deal about that one 😉

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14. 

    dire_wolf

    February 26, 2013 at 11:21 am

    I don’t know if this counts as a broken bone, but a couple years ago I dislocated my left knee which caused me to fall over, and the fall caused it to pop back into place, but then the knee swelled up heaps and when I went to see a doctor about it and got some x-rays they told me some bone had chipped off and was floating around in my knee. Had to have some surgery to fix it, and now I’ve got a pretty cool scar on my left knee.

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    stevorooni

    February 26, 2013 at 11:22 am

    I haven’t broken anything but I’ve got a few scars from injuries and operations.

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16. 

    dragick

    February 26, 2013 at 11:23 am

    Fell off my motorbike at 15kph on the way home from passing my P’s test. Broke my thumb 🙁

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17. 

    shane

    February 26, 2013 at 11:27 am

    Broke my right wrist two months before the ACT version of the HSC. That was a fun healing process.

    Oh, and I fractured a bone deep in my elbow once. Still can’t straighten my arm fully, eight years later.

    And I’ve done something to my foot now. Don’t think it’s broken or anything, but there’s some weird swelling and a lot of pain.

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18. 

    tofu

    February 26, 2013 at 11:29 am

    If it’s just bones, my stories are pretty mediocre. I broke my arm when I was two from using my high chair as a rocking horse and I tipped backwards and my arm snapped on the corner of a cupboard. I’ve also got a mishealed rib from when I was in year 12 drama and was taking part in a stage fighting workshop and I got distracted and pushed off a wall too hard and landed on the edge of the stage before falling off … that fractured 3 ribs. The next year when I was at uni, I was in a play and all the actors were doing bonding exercises and junk and I dived for a ball we were playing with knowing I’d fall safely on a gym mat in the corner … some one yanked the mat away just as I jumped and I landed on concrete instead. fractured the same 3 ribs and I couldn’t afford to go to a hospital for a while … when I went they told me one of the ribs was pushed in a bit.

    Now if we’re going general wounds. I’ve got a scar on my thumb from when a fish hook went through it. I’ve got double jointed ring fingers from when both my hands got flattened by my brother slamming a heavy wooden door on them (and I do mean flattened) I’ve got a burn mark on my wrist from a drop of molten solder that somehow jumped a meter from the soldering iron. I’ve got a scar on my inner elbow from when I had to have about half of the muscle and nerves in my arm removed because of an iv that came out of my vein and no one noticed for a few days. I’ve got a random hunk of muscle missing from my shoulder. I’ve got a lovely little scar on my leg from when I was bitten by a blue heeler, I’ve got a scar on my foot from when I accidentally kicked a pen and it got jammed in between my toes. I’ve stabbed myself with a pocket knife and had the blade go all the way in and last but not least, one of my front teeth has a little chip in it from when my brother punched me because he was playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 in my room at 3 in the damned morning.

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19. 

    ponton

    February 26, 2013 at 11:31 am

    I’ve been pretty lucky, have only had green stick fractures on both wrists (at different times).
    Recently had a minor stress fracture from running with crappy shoes.

    i came pretty close to removing myself from the gene pool tho.
    Whipper Snipping with the blade on and cut through a high tensile fence. The fence wire cut straight through my jeans and into my upper leg… was very lucky,

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    toasty_fresh

    February 26, 2013 at 11:37 am

    I was a really dumb kid. And basically this one time, when I was perhaps 7 or 8 I was playing on some playground climbing thing, tumbled over and landed on my wrist. I fell less than a meter and broke my wrist, because my full body weight fell on it. It literally was shaped like an S. Funny thing is I don’t remember it hurting until I looked at it.

    The worst thing is, this playground was like a maze. The guy who got me out of there had to climb through all these tunnels and climbing bars designed for children, and then somehow get me back through all that crap.

    Yep, I broke my wrist because I fell about 2 feet or so.

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21. 

    kermitron

    February 26, 2013 at 11:44 am

    I broke my arm when I was 9. I had been doing Tae Kwon Do on Friday nights for a couple of months and there was this one bully in the class, an older kid (12 or 13) who would always mess with the younger kids during breaks and whenever the instructors weren’t watching. One Friday night, it was my turn. He kept shoving me (completely without any consideration for the actual martial skills we were supposed to be learning) and eventually I decided I wasn’t going to put up with him or rise to it and turned to walk away.

    He leaped on me and grabbed me in a kind of bearhug from behind, trying to pin my arms to my sides. I reacted instantly, spinning counter-clockwise before he could tighten his grip around my much smaller frame, throwing up my left arm completely without thinking about it.

    CRACK. My left arm just above the wrist collided with the left side of his jaw just below his ear and both of us tumbled to the ground in opposite directions, clutching parts of our body. We may have blacked out a little. Neither of us could get up. but I think he was making more noise than I was. I lay on the floor for maybe an hour until my dad arrived to pick me up (my parents are divorced – I lived with my mother but it was his weekend with me). I don’t remember where the bully went, I think he was able to get up and walk away after half an hour.

    It never occurred to me I was seriously injured, but I was very subdued and sore all weekend. When I was returned to the care of my mother on Sunday night, they agreed I was acting like a bit of a “lame duck”, though they didn’t seem particularly concerned. For the record, they were both trained nurses.

    On Monday morning I went to school as usual, and to be honest the pain had mostly subsided. We had a gardening project going on where each class had to try and do something with a patch of dirt, and Monday morning from 10 til lunchtime was our alotted gardening time.

    I grabbed a mattock and started churning some of the dirt so it could be mixed with fertilizer and we might be able to plant something in it. After about a minute I hit a chunk of concrete buried under the dirt, sending shockwaves up my arms and reactivating the pain in my left arm. I dropped the mattock and went to the teacher to complain my arm hurt. she gave it a glance and said “yes, it looks a bit swollen” and sent me to the nurse’s office.

    My arm didn’t hurt as mad as it had over the weekend so I don’t know why my mother thought it was now appropriate to take me to the hospital, but one x-ray later it was confirmed I had a clean fracture of the ulna. At the time no one connected it to the Tae Kwon Do incident 3 days earlier, so for the rest of the school year I was known as the kid who broke his arm while gardening.

    The next day, my mother and I dropped by the school to explain my absence for the next few days. I will never forget the “bricks shat” face my teacher made when she saw my arm in plaster. I’m sure she thought we were going to sue the crap out of the school and get her fired or something.

    Anyway, I got to wear t-shirts and tracksuits to school for 8 weeks because I couldn’t get my regular uniform shirt and jumper on over my cast, so that was pretty cool. Writing was a bitch though.

    Side note: my mother had a habit of sarcastically asking “are your arms broken?” whenever you asked her do do something for you, e.g.: “can you pass me that thing”, etc. About 3 weeks after the cast went on we were at my cousin’s birthday party and I asked her to pour me a drink. Naturally she asked “what, are your arms broken?” to which I replied “well… yes?”.

    Side-side note: I had signed up for a local baseball team (I’d played tee-ball the previous year but was now too old for it) and broke my arm before the season actually started. I showed up for my first practice with my arm still in plaster and earned the nickname “Wingy”, which as nicknames go, isn’t too bad.

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22. 

    wilkshake

    February 26, 2013 at 11:45 am

    So hardcore that I broke my ankle playing netball.

    Have the plate and six screws to show for it to show for it.

    http://pic.twitter.com/rXJM5d4dV2

    Yep, netball.

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       aliasalpha

       February 26, 2013 at 12:02 pm

       Thats pretty damned epic. I never knew netball was a full contact sport

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          wilkshake

          February 26, 2013 at 12:34 pm

          Contact… err….. That’s right!

          It’s not like it did it with nobody within 3 metres of me at the time…

          /shiftyeyes

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       smurfydog

       February 26, 2013 at 9:49 pm

       There’s a lot of younger people where I work and many of them play sport. The most sick leave due to injuries is from Netball players. Generally ankles and knees.
       Yours definitely takes the cake though 😛

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23. 

    soulblade64

    February 26, 2013 at 11:57 am

    Fractured my pinky after some kid stood on it

    Broke my thumb in a car door (Classic Volvo as well, so I slammed it good!)

    Broken my little toe playing Warcraft 3… Yes, I broke a bone playing video games… my mum wanted a cup of tea, I was playing online, so I ran up and down the house to make… On one trip my foot swung wide and collided with the wall. Didn’t actually realise until the next morning that my toe wasn’t right because it was still hurting.

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24. 

    thistler

    February 26, 2013 at 11:58 am

    When I was 7 I was convinced my mum must’ve bought transformers when she went shopping. I heard the car pull up and I bolted out the front door… Foot through the verandah and I slammed forwards face-first into the cement steps. Broke my nose. No transformers. My parents instead prayed that I would heal up.

    I also fractured my elbow because I was skateboarding while eating a donut. Not sure what happened but I woke up on the ground next to the donut. I re-fractured it trying to drop in on a quarter-pipe while my arm was in a sling. Then busted it again trying to play tennis too early.

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25. 

    pablopepper

    February 26, 2013 at 11:59 am

    I broke my right tibia on a skateboard, and when I say broke, I mean shattered. My foot twisted around 180 degrees. Slightly painful. I was in a cast for seven months. I had to have my leg re-broken two months in because it was set wrong. On crutches for about 9 months. Three months physio after the cast came off, basically had to learn to walk again. My orthopedic surgeon said it was the worst leg break he’d seen in 35 years. Funnily enough never skateboarded again

    Also, I broke my big toe in a mosh at a Primus gig in the late 90’s. Hardcore.

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26. 

    nightflarer

    February 26, 2013 at 11:59 am

    Worst injury I had was when I trod on a plank with a nail sticking out of it when I was 6 or so. Straight through my foot.

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27. 

    tiberath

    February 26, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    No broken bones and one barely visible scar under-left if my left eye.

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28. 

    aliasalpha

    February 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    I’ve broken my arms, most of my fingers and my toe. The latter was the weirdest, did it getting off the loo, the floor had just been washed and my foot slipped into the wall.

    Still, not as weird as my teeth, I used to have 7 wisdom teeth…

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29. 

    hayden

    February 26, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    Never broken a bone. Guess I’m just too co-ordinated.

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30. 

    weresmurf

    February 26, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    I once went to run down the 2nd story stairs of a house when I was 14…

    Except they’d removed them to do some work on the house…

    I fell and smashed my head open. A fair bit of blood, one fractured skull and some leaking brain fluid later?

    I’ve got Epilepsy with grand mal seizures for the rest of my life. AWESOME!

    I’m 35 now though, since losing weight, doing karate and becoming more active, they’ve cut down to one every few years thankfully 🙂

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31. 

    germinalconsequence

    February 26, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Despite having thrown myself around a few times, somehow I’ve never had broken bones, though my left elbow has soft tissue damage which still hurts every now and then. I had a suspected hairline fracture at one point but it was just a stray mark on the X-Ray. Have a few scars though, and no nails on my big toes (removed ingrowns). The sad thing is, all except one of my most serious scars are from the most trivial and unlikely activities; one’s from a cat food tin lid, another’s from slipping on a wet, tiled ramp. One’s from stacking a pushie, but ironically, the one time I learned to ride a Peewee motor bike, I stacked it and only got a grazed elbow, despite having basically uprooted a sapling as I fell onto it at speed.

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32. 

    murphlad

    February 26, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    I work as a radiographer; the glorified photographer who takes all these wicked photos. I’ve seen femurs snapped in half from tripping on a garden hose so that the toes are touching the stomach, I’ve seen wrists snapped in 4 places so the picture looks like a jigsaw puzzle, I’ve had gym junkies drop weights on their thumbs and smash it so the X-ray looks like ground glass ( bone so smashed up that instead of being radio-opaque white, it’s a grey mix) and my personal Favourite a patient snapping his humerus in half due to over contraction of his bicep when throwing a dodge ball. True story.

    From my standpoint, it’s not the broken bones that are the most interesting but the foreign objects up and in people. Like wine bottles, carrots and jam jars. .

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       freya

       February 26, 2013 at 6:16 pm

       The best bit of my job is extracting them.

       I mean worst.

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33. 

    screamface

    February 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    A few years ago when I was in my mid 20s I was out on the town having drinks with friends.

    It’d been chatting to some chicks that were friends of my friends. Trying to hook up with one. We had moved to another bar and the night was getting quite late and drunk. The girl I was making a move on whispered in my ear, ‘i want to F*** you tonight.’ I was quite pleased by this, gave her a kiss, finished my beer and went to the bathroom before we’d get out of there.

    Now I was smashed. I was keen to get back, but there were some stairs on the way to the toilet. So I was walking fast and fell. I don’t really remember much else until I was back at my place with the girl. I just remember a moment of thought of being mid air.

    Back at my place my hand was swollen. I wrapped a large compression bandage around it and then enjoyed the girls company. The next day I called a mate to take me to the emergency room. I had broken one of the metacarpals in my hand. Fractured some other ones.

    So of course had to then get surgery later that week and it was all quite horrible. Now I have a scar down the middle of the back of my hand. Movements is still a bit restricted and stiff. It sometimes gets sore and just feels annoying.

    I ended up dating the girl for a little bit, even after all of that. Apparently she saw me getting man handled and kicked out by the bouncers. She thought they had beaten me up or something.

    I must say, really crap of the place to treat someone like that who seriously hurt themselves. I was told I would have had no grounds to sue the place as I was really quite drunk. I should have complained, but really the whole thing makes me cringe and feel bad. Even now i’ll sometimes be out, having drinks, look at the scar and get depressed and ashamed of myself. Kind of a reminder of my problems then and now.

    I got laid though.

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34. 

    beejep

    February 26, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    No broken bones, but I have a pretty cool burn-scar on my arm from when I was pouring hot honeycomb out onto a slab (age 14-15 I think?). It was at work and there was a crowd watching me, my boss said she was impressed that I managed not to swear when it happened!

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35. 

    dainbramage

    February 26, 2013 at 3:40 pm

    I’ve done: forearm, collarbone, thumb. Forearm when I was a baby, climbing out of my cot. Collarbone skiing. Thumb playing soccer. Bonus is a nearly-invisible scar on my palm from coming off my bike and basically scraping all of the skin off my hand, leaving a flap of skin about 2×1 inches (and a couple of mm thick) hanging by a thread. Fortunately the flap re-took so I didn’t need a graft. I wear gloves when mountain biking now. What’s amazing is that my palm has healed to the point where you wouldn’t notice it, but the tiny grazes I got on my elbows and my stomach all left scars.

    My brother on the other hand has about 10 major injuries.

    In roughly chronological order, he’s broken his elbow (monkey bars), finger (caught in an oar lock), toe (crushed under a log), finger #2 (basketball), wrist (not sure/can’t remember), finger #3 (fight), torn some ligament in his thumb (fell, playing some form of sport), torn ACL and MCL in his knee (skiing), dislocated+broken ankle (soccer), broken knee (skiing).

    Between both knee injuries and the ankle he’s spent somewhere around 9 months on crutches.

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36. 

    hypnotica

    February 26, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    I did a small jump in the air out of celebration, and i twisted my foot and broke my 5th metatarsil. I know, the story is lame but it did happen. Also when i was in primary school, a kid shoved me down a slide, then when i was getting up he jumped on my arm, shattering the elbow, and the lower arm. I had to have wires in there for 6 weeks, and then when they were being pulled out, they didn’t give me anything to numb the pain (and i was 6 years old!), and since they were touching a LOT of nerves, it is the worst pain i ever have, and hopefully ever will feel

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37. 

    finalizer

    February 26, 2013 at 4:05 pm

    Haha… I hadn’t broken a single thing untill about a week after New Years. My friend got a small cut working on his gaming PC, and he asked for me to get tissue for him. I obliged, but as I turned around, I accidentally clipped my pinky toe on a wall, breaking it.

    I got some small scars on my ring pinky and ring finger from a pair of scissors. seven years on, I still sometimes touch them, and I worry about the skin bumps over the cuts might break, and leak blood everywhere. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened yet.

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38. 

    red_t_rex

    February 26, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    I broke my left collar bone coaching U/10’s T-Ball. It was pretty embarrassing. During practice we would spend the last half of practice playing a scratch match and seeing we didn’t have enough players to field all positions and have at least 3 batters I played Coach, Catcher and Umpire. Let’s just say my competitive side got the better of me when one of the kids tried to take home plate. A stumble, a shoulder roll, and an almighty crunch. Then a trip to the hospital!

    I was due to go for a job interview the next day so I had to put it off for a week. Everything worked out though as I got the job in the end.

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39. 

    russell

    February 26, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    I’m a radiographer, I have the funniest time finding broken bones. The kind of things I see are freaking AWESOME
    I know it sounds bad but when you find gnarly fractures or healing fractures it’s quite a thrill!

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40. 

    ruffleberg

    February 27, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    I fell off a slide when i was about 10. I was running up while a kid was sliding down, even though i specifically asked that little fuck not to. So i tried to jump out of the way at the last second and his feet collided with mine, i went head first into the ground. It was only maybe 1 meter off the ground but it was enough to turn my left arm into what looked like the letter z.

    For the next 2 years my arm just constantly clicked when i moved it. I have no idea how they did it, but i managed to get away from the surgery with no scar. Lucky considering both the bones were broken.

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