In your lifetime, have you ever broken a hand, arm or leg?

Question

I never did.

I did have a tendon cut in my hand and needed stitches. Then a soft cast. It was cool because I didn't have to wash dishes. ha ha

Oh my goodness! Wow what stories about your bodies. I am indeed fortunate. So sorry for all of your bone-chilling experiences. I am wincing as I read them

Answer 1

Broke my left foot one year when two kittens came running at me. I had been writing Christmas cards at the dining room table, had one leg crossed under me, so when I stood up there was no feeling. I couldn't get out of the way of the cats.

Same weekend one year later I slipped on wet leaves coming down stairs. Torn my right foot up so badly the doctor said I would have been better off had it broken.

Both times it was Thanksiving weekend, and after the holiday I showed up at work on crutches. The third year I drove to work, only to find half a dozen co-workers waiting in the parking lot with my chair, in case they had to wheel me in again.

Answer 2

I had a torque injury to my right foot resulting in walking boot and crutches. Stupid, unnecessary accident. I had one hand holding a cup of bird seed. My granddaughter at the top of the steps, was holding a phone and saying, "Here, Nana." I answered the phone and they were gone. I turned myself around again to go back down stairs and fell with my ankle and wrist twisted. OOOOOHHH, that hurt. I called for my granddaughter, but she just left me there. After about 20 minutes, I was able to hobble back up the stairs, and called my daughter. When she got home, she wrapped with ace bandage. A friend of hers came over the next day and told her she thought my foot was broken. It was. Three days later, I finally saw a physician who took x-rays. I think my daughter was very ashamed of herself for not believing me.

Oh, well. It has healed, but my wrist still hurts on occasion. That was almost two years ago.

Nothing really serious, I was very lucky.

I have broken a toe or two but that is not a problem and nothing much to do with that except just wait. I am 65 and feel very fortunate I never broken any bones before.

Answer 3

Broke the tip off of my left elbow at 2 1/2.

Broke my arm and dislocated the same shoulder at 9. Was in traction for 10 days. When the Dr. was going to try to do the closed reduction for the second time, he told my folks to prepare themselves because if they couldn't get it to hold, they would have to amputate. He was great and it held after the seventh attempt to set it in the surgical suite.

I will say this much though, I've heard many, many people talk about how they have aches and pains and arthritis later in life after a break, but I have absolutely no pain in this arm whatsoever, during any kind of weather. That is a miracle in itself.

Answer 4

Broke an arm in 4th grade

Broke a foot about 14 years ago

Answer 5

No, but I suffered for years with tennis elbow and it was hard to deal with. I could hardly do anything with my arm. Also I pulled a tendon in my leg on the plane on our way to Disneyland and suffered, mostly in silence, while seeing the sights there for 3 days and then for months on getting home.
Long answer to a short question!

Answer 6

Never in my 61 years. My father died at 99. Never broke a bone. My mother never broke a bone in her 85 years. I have a sister 80 years old and another 75. Neither one has ever broke a bone. In fact, I can only think of one member of the family who has, my niece once had a fractured leg.

Answer 7

Yes, I broke my toe in karate class! The Master was showing me a new kick and he twisted me around while my foot stayed stable...crack! I told him that I thought my toe just broke...he said, "no, it just popped!" Yeah! It popped alright, the bone split down one side of the toe and I finished another hour and one-half with a throbbing toe! I did get that kick down though! lol

I also fell out of a ceiling. LOL! It was when I opened my business and i could smell smoke! So, I got on my ladder, lifted the ceiling panel to see and I couldn't see anything as it was too dark! So, I went higher and leaned...splat! On the floor I went and landed on both feet! My feet were fine but, I broke my pelvic bone! NO FIRE, and we never did find where the smoke smell was coming from!

When I gave my daughter, Cindy, my left kidney, they sawed out my floating rib to get to the kidney, ureter and the artery which runs from the kidney. THAT HURT more than any of the other breaks! Plus, I found out later, they had cracked two other ribs using the rib spreader on me!

So, yeah, I think I have had plenty of broken bones!

Answer 8

I sure have plus ribs, fingers and toes many times...err...come to think of it, I guess I am not graceful. I have stepped on broken bottles, my feet are glass magnets, can pick up shards of glass in the best of homes, split my head open jumping on the bed, broke my arm and leg riding a horse, fell down a flight of stairs twice, broke my spine in two places from being burgerized in my home, got memingitis from rocking a sick baby...the list goes on and on and on LOL Oh, I spray painted my eye ball working on a science project....I always have to have health insurance, lol!
Oh, I got a concusion assembling the armoire for the computer and screwed a screw into my kneecap when assembling another peice of furniture. My son's cat bit me and I got gangrene and had to have part of my thumb amputated, cut off part of another finger trying to slice a cucumber with a dull knife and caught my hair on fire from a birthday cake, glued my fingers to the keyboard applying superglue to false fingernails, got bit in the butt from a donkey....ah, life, what an adventure!!!!

Answer 9

I've broken my arms a total of 9 times (between the both of them), my finger once, and twisted my ankles a couple of times. No joke! So I guess you can kind of say that I've injured all 3!

Answer 10

Twisted my knee and chipped 2 bones. Had to have surgery to get them out. Broke my little toe by kicking the leg of my grandma's couch. (by walking by it, the leg stuck out a little) Other than that I haven't broken anything... knock on wood... and that was 35 years ago.