Poll: Broken Bones

[smithy_2045]

At the age of 20, I got my first ever broken bone (big toe) playing indoor soccer.

Since I can't do anything fun for the next month or so, I figured I'd make a thread about it.

How many escapists have broken their bones, and if yes, how'd you break them?

Spoiler: Incidentally, also the name of an awesome song by Birds of Tokyo

 

[Sacman]

I've broken my foot, and my ring finger and pinky finger on my right hand... and that's about it...<.<

 

[Cogwheel]

First of all: Good luck getting that healed properly. Hope it doesn't hurt too much. Either way, get well soon.

As for your question, more times than I can count. Falling down stairs or getting hit by a car, typically. Yes it happens often to me. Mostly the car bit, often enough.

Oh, and I fell off the roof once while clearing ice off it. Parents said I didn't need to fasten myself to anything and I was pathetic for even asking. So much for that. Lucky I survived, what with it being a 15 foot fall and so on.

Couple times from general violence, typically from someone in the family. That doesn't happen often, though.

So yes, broken bones and so forth. Typically limbs and ribs, got better since. I'm accident-prone, but apparently indestructible.

Sorry if that comes across as whiny.

 

[DocGrimm]

When i was 14 i broke my radius, ulna, wrist, and my thumb in one fell swoop.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Nope. Never more than sprained anything.
I should fix that. Sprains are boring.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Oh, and I fell off the roof once while clearing ice off it. Parents said I didn't need to fasten myself to anything and I was pathetic for even asking. So much for that. Lucky I survived, what with it being a 15 foot fall and so on.

Surviving 15 foot falls is fun! I'm definitely not kept awake by mine, constantly wondering 'what if?'...
Although there was a challenge in MW2 for surviving a 15 foot fall. It made me laugh.

Broke my leg when I was 2. Can't say I remember it that well. That's all though. The aforementioned fall deposited me safely into snow, and not onto any of the rocks lying in a very small radius around me, thankfully.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I don't think I have or at least I never was told anything was broken but that may be the result of not going to the doctor. I may have broken a rib or two a couple times because they really hurt and I may have broken my wrist because it got fucking swollen and hurt like a *****, But I was never officially told things were broken.

 

[Cogwheel]

Surviving 15 foot falls is fun! I'm definitely not kept awake by mine, constantly wondering 'what if?'...

If you don't mind my asking, what happened?

As for me, injuries don't faze me any more. Much, anyway. I mean, sure, it's painful and I'll act extra whiny at the time, but there comes a point where (past the initial panic, anyway), stuff like this just turns into "oh, that again". I've essentially been run over, dashed against the ground, stabbed and (on occasion, mind you - I am NOT a good cook) charred into severe apathy when it comes to injury.

Doesn't stop it from being inconvenient, though. That, and I find having about a decade left to go makes me worry rather less about getting hurt.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Never broken a thing.

I'm so fuckin' robust.

 

[Christopher Roberts]

Broke my wrist playing soccer. I am now forever a soccer Nazi.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Four years old, bouncy castle, right arm, it was a fracture and it might have been a fracture in two places. I?ve also hurt my toes a couple times but they were never breakages, might have been a dislocation once though.

 

[Aidinthel]

Oh, and I fell off the roof once while clearing ice off it. Parents said I didn't need to fasten myself to anything and I was pathetic for even asking. So much for that. Lucky I survived, what with it being a 15 foot fall and so on.

On the bright side, that must have been the ultimate "I told you so."

OT: Never. The worst that's happened to me is a couple sprains.

 

[superbatranger]

Just my nose. Apparently it runs in the family. My mom, 2 of my uncles, 4 of my cousins, 3 of my aunts, and my grandma's sister have all broken their nose.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Surviving 15 foot falls is fun! I'm definitely not kept awake by mine, constantly wondering 'what if?'...

If you don't mind my asking, what happened?

Doesn't stop it from being inconvenient, though. That, and I find having about a decade left to go makes me worry rather less about getting hurt.

Don't mind at all, although I think I've posted the story here a few times before...
Basically, I was skiing off-piste with a group when I managed to get a little lost. A fair bit of stumbling around later, and I found my group standing at the bottom of a ridiculous series of rocks and sheer drops, whilst I was at the top. They had found a sensible path around, I had not. Getting to them would have been impossible on skis, so I took them off and attempted to climb down. Snow's not the most solid thing in the world, and it gave out underneath me about halfway through my trek, dropping me a mere 4 feet or so onto a little plateau. The snow then kept moving, taking me with it. The next drop was not so short. Thankfully I ended up in a small patch of snow, but there were a lot of rocks I could have landed on within about a foot's radius of where I ended up. At the time, that didn't seem important, since my skis had decided not to make the second drop, and I could see several hundred pounds of my equipment, out of reach of anyone with any vestige of sanity.

Yeah, I've had some practice telling that one.

You may well mind me asking, so feel free not to answer but why/how do you only have a decade or so left?

 

[Fragged_Templar]

hmm, let's see, if I go per individual bone broken that puts me at 9, but if I go by the accidents that caused the breaks that puts me at 5. I'm not particularly accident prone but I am very outdoorsy and active, and when you run around as a kid pretty much going "what happens if I climb a tree upside down" then accidents a bound to happen I guess. Needless to say I can now tell whenever something is either broken, fractured, sprained, or just plain sore from the initial pain and dexterity of the limb in question.

---just FYI climbing a tree upside down didn't lead to anything getting broken, just getting a lot of bark and pine needles in my eyes as I had to look where I was going/putting my feet.

 

[ParadiseOnceLost]

I broke my radius and ulna when I was young. It is a really boring story basically I tripped on some ice and landed on my right arm causing it to break. The painfully part was getting that thing set because my bones were knocked out of alignment.

 

[AvsJoe]

All I can lay claim to is a sprain. Zero breaks and I intend to keep it that way.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

had an operation to fix my lower jaw, which essentialy involved breaking it (technically its cutting and filing but in essence its the same thing)

being stuck on a liquid food diet for 4 1/2 months is not fun

 

[Angerwing]

Nope. Never. Not through being overly cautious, but with being overly lucky.