Have you broken any bones in your body? What bone(s) did you break and how?

Question

I broke my 5th toe when I was about 16. The phone rang and as I ran to get it, I caught my foot against the leg of the family room chair. Ouch.

Answer 1

I've broken a leg, an upper arm, fingers and toes but the most memorable was three ribs. I was lifting an 8" diameter by 12' long stilling well for a tide gage off of a piling, one foot on the deck of the boat and one on the top of the piling. A wave turned the boat as I lifted, and the stress on my body caused three ribs to break.

What makes it memorable is that a few nights later at the dinner table, I got the hiccups. Each time I'd hick I'd get stabbing pain in the side, and groan. That got my wife to laughing. She got me laughing which hurt as much as the hiccups. There I sat hiccuping, groaning, laughing, groaning etc. with the tears streaming.

I broke a finger (first on right hand) and popped it out of joint at the same time kedging a boat with a dead motor into the dock. The break healed but the finger was stuck straight out for a year and a half. A fellow at work I hadn't seen for a while, gripped my hand to shake, and popped the finger back into place. I let out a yell (an obscene one) and he jumped, but then I realized he'd fixed my finger and told him I'd build a little shrine right there.

Answer 2

All in the same accident, 6 broken ribs, two broken fingers, a fractured cheek bone, dislocated shoulder, cracked collar bone and fractured nose, plus numerous bruises and cuts. I have broken every finger at least once working security. And broke my heel at the age of five jumping off the roof

Answer 3

yes i broke 3 bones on my righr foot ; that happens about 10 years ago the weather was horrible and the lights had went off and i got up to get a flash light and i could not see i ran into the coffe ta ble i felt like my toes had came of f it hurt so bad i had to go to the hospital and all they did for me was put 3 small sticks on them and gave me some pain killer and a hospital shoe.

Answer 4

Broke my ankle when I slipped off a step and twisted it. And just broke my finger a couple months ago. We have those old windows with the ropes inside and the rope snapped and the window slammed down on my fingertip. It blew up so quick and turned so many colors.... my language got pretty colorful too!

Answer 5

confident Debby, I broke my tail bone in toddler delivery with my first son years in the past. Then I broke my ankle basically slightly above the place you may routinely think of of the ankle on an attitude and it grew to become into in a strolling solid for it form of sounds like perpetually, i grew to become into depressing and that i broke my toe and did no longer bypass in early adequate and that they had to re-wreck it to repair it, I inform you female i'm a klutz!

Answer 6

me & my cousin were chasing eachother & i broke the same toe by hitting it against a door.........i cried like crazy. my parents said there was nothing that the doctors could do about it so they didn't bother taking me to the hospital.i had to live with the pain for a long time

Answer 7

I broke my foot, I had a little too much 2 drink and was coming down a flight of stairs and thought there was no more stairs and fell!!!!

Answer 8

Ouch. No I've never broken any bones.

Answer 9

i broke my wrist when i was eight.

a couple of years back, i was in a car accident and got a fractured sternum which sucked (although i'm not sure it's technically a bone)

Answer 10

Broke a few toes and fractured my skull, tree fell on me and hit me in the head.

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