What bones have you broken?

[wedgewood]

Dodging the ice here lately and it sure as hell doesn't bring back good memories. About three years ago, my dumb ass decided one morning that the icy Michigan sidewalks were an ideal place to go jogging. Yes, I know, beyond stupid. But in my defense, I was going slooooow. And it was more of a fast walk than a jog. Slip, fall, and before I know it, my ankle is doing this whole 2 o'clock thing. Not sure how much metal is still embedded in my lower right leg. Anyway, please be careful on that ice. Also chipped a bone in my elbow diving for a pass (incomplete) in a flag football game way back freshman year of college. So what have you guys broken?

 

[YGBFKM]

I've only broken my elbow, in a motrocycle accident of which I have no memory. But I have cracked my head open four times (commence with the jokes ).

 

[Starman]

The humerus bone in my elbow, in Feb. 1973, skiiing when I was 14 years old.

And I did not find it the least bit humorous.

 

[RickStain]

Fifth metacarpal in my right hand.

 

[YGBFKM]

Fingers don't count.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Hairline fracture of the elbow, two broken ribs. And numerous chicken bones.

 

[RickStain]

Fingers don't count.

Guess which one I'm responding with.

 

[Madhavok]

I have broken my left wrist three times, both big toes, some fingers, and one, maybe two ribs ?

 

[zimbabwe]

Both collarbones.

Once playing football (sans pads)

Once playing rugby.

Never a pleasure.

 

[imjustagirl]

None that I'm positive about. But I think I probably broke my fourth toe a year or so ago.

 

[albert77]

Fifth tarsal bone in my right foot. Broke it stepping off a curb wrong after crawling through the cave at Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga (a very cool tour, btw, if you're into spelunking). At first I thought it was just a bruise or a strain, but it kept hurting, and finally went to get it x-rayed two weeks later and there it was.

 

[Dyno]

Hairline fracture in a rib. That's it for me.

 

[joeggernaut]

Broke my orbital (eye socket) in high school playing baseball. That suuuuuucked.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Pain don't hurt.

 

[bigpern23]

Broke my right shoulder, or I guess my arm, playing football. Snapped the shaft of the bone from the knob at the end that fits in the shoulder socket. When I got tackled, my elbow caught a rock in the ground and it jerked my arm down, snapping the bone. As we came to a stop, my tackler's weight pushed my arm back up and the jagged edge of the bone popped behind my shoulder blade and broke the skin. I literally saw my own bone.

To this day, when I lift my right arm, sometime it hits a perfect angle and it will just roll right out of the socket.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Both hands.

Nothing else.

Well, except when the doctor in 1993 asked me if I knew I had broken my back. Finally nailed it down to sometime around 1981 when I had a major bicycle wreck. It grew back weird, and I eventually had to have a pair of rods screwed in to hold the L5 and S1 vertebra together.

The left hand during high school baseball tryouts, diving for a ball in center field. Would have caught the damn thing, too, except the three loud "pops" caused me to lose grip.

The right hand playing softball. Told the wife I broke it diving for a play at second base. Truth is, I overshot the grounder and punched the ground in frustration.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Tailbone when I was a kid, sledding. Well, more like demolition derby sledding.

 

[Smash Williams]

A bunch of toes, most painfully the fourth toe on my right foot by accidentally kicking a barbell that served as our dorm room's doorstop. Had to take an English final with that sucker throbbing.

My right thumb when I was about nine after I accidentally swam into the edge of a pool (my eyes were closed because chlorinated hotel pools suck). I didn't fess up to my mom that it hurt for like two weeks, and we went into get it looked at and there was a night fracture right through it.

I also jammed fingers in all sorts of gruesome ways in grade school during recess playing a game where we stood on either sides of a tennis net and flung basketballs at each other as hard as we could. It was kind of like dodgeball, just with more injuries and third-grade rage. I suspect some of those fingers were actually fractured but we never got them x-rayed.

 

[Beef03]

As far as broken bones go, just a green stick fracture of my right wrist when I was 10. However, my injury list is far longer. Six concussions. Torn rotator cuff. Several ankle sprains. Chipped bone in my elbow. Also battled back problems since I was in Grade 5. Doc also wants hack into both my knees, but that I'm probably not going to go for.

 

[Brad Guire]

I'm 29 and have never broken a bone. That said, I have torn the cartilage in my knee to the point I will one day have it replaced, and I have ruptured a disc in my back.