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

[sethisjimmy]

Surprised at the amount who've never broken anything.

I've only ever broken my nose, on the playground one day at elementary school. I was running around playing basketball and somehow smacked face first into the concrete. Blood just started pouring out of my nose like a faucet. It settled down after a while but I still wanted to go to the hospital to confirm I had broken it so I could tell people. Luckily it didn't have to be adjusted or anything, it was just fine to heal on its own.

 

[GameChanger]

Once during a judo competition. A guy dropped me the wrong way and I tried to fall the wrong way. My arm caught the fall and bent the way it wasn't supposed to, and that's basically how it happened.

So that's me, I'm a freaking badass. And I know it.


(slight form of irony intended)

 

[White_Lama]

23 in less than a month and not broken anything yet.

Which is surprising seeing all the escapades I was in when I was a kid.

 

[Keoul]

Bu...but fractured means broken. Are you sure you are not mixing up words?

Probably am, not very knowledgeable on my part in regards to broken limbs.
I just assumed fracture meant a small break while broken meant jutting out agony.

 

[chadachada123]

Age 18, a loading dock behind a closed-down building.

Me and my friends were just walking around, and, being fans of parkour/free-running, decided we wanted to climb up the wall on the edge of the loading bay, this wall presumably providing privacy from on-lookers or something. It looked a bit like this:

Spoiler

Unfortunately, the top layer of concrete wasn't even attached to the wall, and when I went to jump to grab the top, it fell down. I barely jumped out of the way in time, because it SHOULD have landed on my head or body. Instead, it broke over my foot. It also broke several bones IN my foot.

Later estimation put it at between 300 and 400 pounds directly onto my right foot. Had to get a plate put in and several screws. The scars look pretty rad, though.

Here's an image of the offending hunk of concrete with my sister as a reference, the brick falling from a good 12 feet up:

 

[Sampsa]

Shattered elbow at the age of 16.

 

[Alssadar]

At first, I thought this was going to be a poll whether one believed that "words can never hurt me."

Nonetheless, I've never broken a bone, as I've always played it safe, ever since watching TV shows/movies where that happened and knew I would not like it.

 

[Eddy-16]

Who the hell said 25+? Poor bastard...
I'm one of the lucky majority who hasn't broken a bone. Had ligament damage in my finger once or twice but, I don't count that

 

[Kae]

I am unbreakable!

Not a single bone in my body has been broken. Ever. Even though I'm one of the clumsiest muppets around.

Me too, I'm clumsy as hell and surprisingly never broken a bone, kinda odd since they used to know me by name at the hospital when I was a kid, I have cracked my head a couple of times but I only got stitches, no staples or anything so I don't think anything happened to the bone.

 

[teqrevisited]

I've only ever had the cartilage in my nose broken when I tried to take on someone 2 feet taller than I was. Other than that I'm all in one piece.

 

[Chunga the Great]

The doctor had to break my collar bone to get me out of the womb. Haven't broken a bone since then.

 

[klown]

First thing I ever broke was when I was eleven. I was playing football as an attacking midfielder type, and got my ankle stepped on, and it shattered. Took ages to heal, and hurt like hell. Ever sense than though, I learned not to place my foot under someone else while on the pitch.

 

[Dimitriov]

The only break I have ever had was my right thumb. A small piece of the bone broke off and reformed with a slight bump.

It's kind of strange, considering my childhood... and my adult life, that that is the only break I have ever had.

Also, rather strangely, I don't know how or when I broke it. I just noticed that it was kind of tender over the course of a couple weeks... and then finally got it x-rayed.

My assumption is that I must have somehow done it during Tae Kwon Do, which I took while I was a teenager. Possibly while doing board breaks or something.

 

[Starik20X6]

22 and none broken yet. I consume way too much dairy to be able to break any. I crashed a motorbike on tarmac and walked away with all my bones intact.

 

[Quaxar]

Bu...but fractured means broken. Are you sure you are not mixing up words?

Probably am, not very knowledgeable on my part in regards to broken limbs.
I just assumed fracture meant a small break while broken meant jutting out agony.

Uh, to make it short a broken anything is what is medically referred to as a fracture. It's basically latin (fractura) and a big part of our profession is veeeery keen on their latin names.
There's things you can add to specify the kind of fracture (splintered fracture, dislocated fracture, etc.) but the base word stays. And any bigger fracture is agony really, breaking a major bone like the femur is more or less one of the worst kinds of pain.

 

[zerragonoss]

I broke my leg very early in life cant remember exactly when but under 3 years old. I was resting against my mothers shoulder while she was holding me up with a firm grip on my leg. Than I decide to jump at a nearby nurse, did not go well. never broken any other bones but not surprising with the life I lead.

 

[lacktheknack]

No broken bones, but I did get a hairline fracture in my foot when I was five.

My five-year-old-pansy self could still walk on it, so that tells you how serious it was.

 

[CaptQuakers]

I broke a bone trying to get a bike out of a big double swing door garage.

I was 3 and had just had a new bike placed inside said garage,which was on top of a sloped drive. I was using my old trike to stand on to reach the door handle. Little did I know at a tender age of 3 that things with wheels role down hills. Trike starts rolling down the hill whilst I am holding onto the door handle I let go I hit ground I break wrist in 2 places.

I also put a penny up my cast for some reason and when I had the cast removed I had a big green stain on my wrist....

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Broke my right big toe, front point impact, split the tip bone down the middle into the joint, it doesn't bend right anymore, thing is, looking at my life in the past, I SHOULD have broken a LOT of things by now, but apparently I'm highly impact resistant...
Falling, getting into accidents, breaking locker doors with my head while falling awkwardly at a straight sprint... Quite a few brawls...

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Broke my nose when I was 13. This bigger guy smashed my face into his knee.

It was a few weeks before I could get it fixed. The doctor had to stick a rod up my nose and break it again to set it. Ouch.

Also, I'm in the army now. Injuries are surprisingly common in this line of work.