Poll: Sticks and stones have broken my bone(s).

[Roggen Bread]

So I fell on my knee cap and broke the thing. It was on the way to my car to go shopping for food.
Which I did. And it did hurt a lot.
And running around with it for 2 days (was on saturday) before going to a doctor wasn't fun either.
But now I'm okay. Pain is very managable, leg is very immobilized (which sucks) and I won't be able to work for at least 2 weeks while needing some cash.

This is my first broken bone at the tender age of 22.

Share your stories!

 

[Instant K4rma]

I've yet to break a bone, age 20.

Though, to be fair, it's damn hard to break a bone when I spend most of my time at a keyboard. I did go snowboarding for the first time about a year ago with my dad, and he broke his wrist. That was super fun. Swelled up like a balloon on the car ride home.

 

[Strazdas]

I am 24 and i am very happy that i broke no bone. Altrough i should have, i got brain concussion 3 times, one of thme bieng hit by a car and going INSIDE a car though the windshield, head-on. Yes im Headstrong [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZ00CL8pdI].

 

[Vault101]

I thourght this was going to be about how bullying had some terrible psychological effects on you....

I have never broken a bone

 

[Roggen Bread]

I am 24 and i am very happy that i broke no bone. Altrough i should have, i got brain concussion 3 times, one of thme bieng hit by a car and going INSIDE a car though the windshield, head-on. Yes im Headstrong [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZ00CL8pdI].

Damn. You make helmets redundant.
I definitely would have loved to see the paramedics' faces.
Or the doctors.
Or the one I just make.

Captcha: "wax poetic" - Nope, this has NOTHING to do with wax.

 

[Strazdas]

I am 24 and i am very happy that i broke no bone. Altrough i should have, i got brain concussion 3 times, one of thme bieng hit by a car and going INSIDE a car though the windshield, head-on. Yes im Headstrong [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZ00CL8pdI].

Damn. You make helmets redundant.
I definitely would have loved to see the paramedics' faces.
Or the doctors.
Or the one I just make.

Captcha: "wax poetic" - Nope, this has NOTHING to do with wax.

FUnnily this was the injury i felt the least. let me give you the short history:
my first head injury - i fell from the basketball stand, possibly on my back and thien hit the back of the head. i was out cold for 6 hours, then some person (all i can remember of him is he had a crown in his car) took me to a hospital. by the time he picked me up i got hinged back into reality, guess movign me wake me up. spend a week in a hospital with "brian concussion". they let me go after that.
second time: i fell off the second storey in an abandoned construction site. friends who were with me called the medics and i spent 2 weeks in hospital. i dont know whether i was out because i dont remember.
now we go to the car accident. the car stopping threw me out again already actually. i felt myself blacking out, and then waking up again. for me it felt like few second, and im not sure how long it really was but it wasn't long because the driver of the car hadn't come out of the car yet. i actually stood up and started walking (in the street no less) confused of what has happened. The guy got out of the car chased me down and explained me what happened, as i hadnt realized (didnt saw the car coming, felt blacking out waking up and dint realize what happened at first). i lived nearby, and me and the driver actually walked down to my house. he was more angry about his windshield than worried about my health. Only after the guy got paid to not call police about windshield (i was in the wrong this time, kinda jumped in front of a car, didnt see it) my parents drove me to the hospital themselves, where they determined brain concussion and kept me for 3 days.

it wasnt like it is in movies where 5 ambulances come and carry you away, this is ex-soviet country, half the time ambulace response is "we wont come, no free cars".

 

[Bat Vader]

When I was 12 I was standing on my bed and my little sister proceeded to get on the bed and push me off it which caused me to land on my right hand breaking my ring finger. Of course I am right handed so doing any type of homework was a pain.

Since I have arthritis when my finger healed it also got arthritis in it.

 

[smithy_2045]

Broke my big toe playing indoor soccer when I was 20. Only time I've ever broken anything.

 

[Roggen Bread]

i lived nearby, and me and the driver actually walked down to my house. he was more angry about his windshield than worried about my health. Only after the guy got paid to not call police about windshield (i was in the wrong this time, kinda jumped in front of a car, didnt see it) my parents drove me to the hospital themselves, where they determined brain concussion and kept me for 3 days.

it wasnt like it is in movies where 5 ambulances come and carry you away, this is ex-soviet country, half the time ambulace response is "we wont come, no free cars".

Damn. That guy was a dick! Seriously - those people piss me off.

In Germany, if you hit a pedestrian with your car you are ALWAYS fucked. Except it's suicide or something like that. If you are too fast to react on someone who enters the street, well, you have obviously been driving too fast.

I think this is not a perfect ruling, but a better one than bribing the guy who just almost killed you into not calling the police.

And if you're having a heart attack? Do they have free cars for this?

 

[Strazdas]

i lived nearby, and me and the driver actually walked down to my house. he was more angry about his windshield than worried about my health. Only after the guy got paid to not call police about windshield (i was in the wrong this time, kinda jumped in front of a car, didnt see it) my parents drove me to the hospital themselves, where they determined brain concussion and kept me for 3 days.

it wasnt like it is in movies where 5 ambulances come and carry you away, this is ex-soviet country, half the time ambulace response is "we wont come, no free cars".

Damn. That guy was a dick! Seriously - those people piss me off.

In Germany, if you hit a pedestrian with your car you are ALWAYS fucked. Except it's suicide or something like that. If you are too fast to react on someone who enters the street, well, you have obviously been driving too fast.

I think this is not a perfect ruling, but a better one than bribing the guy who just almost killed you into not calling the police.

And if you're having a heart attack? Do they have free cars for this?

well i did CLEARLY was at fault, i jumped in front of him without looking. he could not have stopepd if he wanted to. but police was not called.
By the time someone actually dispatches a car your heart attack is over and your either dead or alive.

 

[Stasisesque]

I have yet to break a bone, I'm 27 and spent a great deal of my childhood falling, jumping, leaping off of stationary objects, quad bikes, horses. I've shut extremities in car doors, I've had horses roll over me, I've capsized a kayak and gotten stuck underneath it. Once I managed to get myself tangled up while rock climbing so I just kept ricocheting off the wall until I was lowered to the ground, landing on my ass. The oddest thing is that I have always been very thin, I haven't exactly got anything cushioning me from harm.

One of my friends takes the biscuit though, she's never broken a bone, had the same childhood as me, but added things like slamming her foot through a window pane, being run over, jumping from a second story window.

We're probably just superheroes.

 

[Keoul]

Fractures count right?
I was goalkeeper for a soccer game and man do they kick hard, either that or I really should've taken off my watch. Either way I fractured my arm defending the goal.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well so far I have never broken any of my bones (sure I have some accident that inform body harm but not braking a bone) so I guess I am fortunate for the time being.

 

[Zhukov]

According to my doctor I have crazy dense bones. They are yet to break on me.

Although I did momentarily dislocate a kneecap doing Judo. That's about as close as I've come.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

During Karate training, a blackbelt broke my right forearm.

Didn't stop me from finishing the last hour of practice and kicking his ass though.

Although, in retrospect doing so was a mistake, I have never felt pain like that ever again.

But being able to tell people that I not only blocked a kick with a broken arm, but also used the very arm the blackbelt broke to hit said blackbelt in the face is almost worth the pain I had to go through.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I was pushed down the stairs and kicked in the face when I landed which broke my nose. I got off very lightly on reflection, maybe with a sprained wrist or ankle at most as I remember having a few sprains throughout childhood. Think I was about 8? I'm not sure, I'll have to look at my old pictures and see when I used to have a cute button nose rather than the big stupid beaky one with a bump I have now haha.

Haven't broken anything since. Cuts and burns and grazes are another thing though D:

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I broke my collar bone as a baby. My parents didn't find out until I could crawl.

 

[Scythe]

During Karate training, a blackbelt broke my right forearm ...

You must have been tying it up wrong.

Thankfully I have never broken a bone. Although that probably means I'll cry like a baby if it ever happens.

 

[recurve6]

I broke my leg when I was in....fifth(?) grade, which would put me in the 10-14 range, I think. I really don't want to do the math right now ugh.

Also broke my pinky when I was 16.

 

[Zantos]

I've fallen badly, caught under things, caught in things, yet in almost 23 years I have never broken a bone. Lucky, lucky, luck.