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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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So............my ankle is healing, it is turning radiant colors lol
and I got to thinking
broken bones?
I broke my neck C4 left side in 1987, in the shallow end of a pool. I got a great doc, who used helped me with weights, and exercises to strengthen the muscles around my neck. I wore a collar and full brace for almost a year. No surgery! Thank God!
My kids? uhm One daughter, broke her arm once, then both of them together once
another daughter compound nasty fracture on arm once
ONe son, the morning we picked him up (before we got there) broke one arm.
whew...
So what about YOUs?
 
I broke my arm when I was about 9 and I tried out my skisters old skates in the very quite street we lived on. A car came, I moved to the side and fell in the gutter. My sister was home alone with me and didn't know what to do as my parents were helping my grandparents move. We went for photos the next day and got it set right away. I remember getting a full size Mars bar from the vending machine while we were waiting in between photos and the setting. Funny how you remember the tiniest things huh. My mom clearly remembered the doctor or nurse saying something about it being so sad for me to have walked around like this for a day. I guess that is why I got the candy bar. She still feels bad about waiting a day...
 
Only broken bone was a result of a fall in 2008 . . . I severely sprained my left ankle. The ligaments tore and caused a chip fracture. They didn't tell me at the ER that I had a fracture, so I was walking around without the boot when the swelling went down. The pain never went away. So then I was back in the boot and had to do PT. Be careful with that sprain ~ don't ignore the pain if it continues.

Daniel has broken both of his arms ~ the first one was when I was in my boot (he was jumping between couches) and the second one was in 4th grade when he fell on a field trip. Thank goodness Jay was with him because he almost passed out.

Jay fell as a child and broke his arm.

Olivia hasn't had any broken bones, thank goodness.
 
@berniek I love the little things you remember...full size Mars bar! tee hee
my youngest daughter fell out of the bunk bed (first time on the top) and didn't want to tell me, cause I didn't want her on top at all. goober girl
it was almost a full day before she came to me crying...
 
I've fractured one toe, but that's my only break. Now, torn ligaments and tendons? Those I have done in larger quantity. :)
 
Fell off my brother's bike when the tire flipped on our dirt drive when I was 8 and broke my left arm. That was the year my Grandma made me a tutu for a school Halloween party. The cast came off the day of the Halloween party. I will never forget the shock I felt when I saw my atrophied stick of an arm. But I won the prize for best costume. I won a mechanical pencil. And I also remember being told my baby brother was born that night of the party. Yes, you do remember minor details. And, in August 2015, I left the library with my arms filled with books and didn't see the curb. I fell and broke my right wrist this time. This time I got a pretty pink cast! Yes, it was painful but thanks to the therapy with our chiro I have full use back this year.
 
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Fell rollerblading in 2007, the day after my new "non-military-post-divorce" insurance started (I was grateful)! I don't remember the type of fracture, but I did that to my dominant writing wrist (right side). Had a cast and a terrible time doing data entry at my job... & horrific handwriting. Hahah
But now I can write with both....
 
I'm a toe stubber. Have had a broken toe several times now. The worst one though was when I was expecting our 5th baby. Every time that toe began to feel better I'd somehow manage to stub it again! It took me MONTHS for it to heal up.

Had a broken right wrist when I was expecting our third baby. Someones brakes failed them and I happened to come along at just the right moment to stop them. Must have hit my wrist on the steering wheel or the shifter. Hit my head, too, and had to have a few stitches. I can relate to the horrific handwriting, Kristina! Same here during that time. I did get some left handed writing skills going. LOL And I had a baby in diapers and couldn't even squeeze the diaper pins to change him or open the peanut butter jar to make a sandwich for my kids. Had to have help for the first couple weeks until I could use the fingers on my right hand again. My husbands little sisters would come over after school to help me out for a bit each day. So grateful for that. :) He worked swing shift at the time so was home til mid afternoon and could help me. I only had an little bit there before the girls came. And they would stay until the little ones went to bed. So we got thru it.
 
I've made it my entire life without any broken bones. Amazingly enough, I just realized my 3 siblings have also escaped broken bones. Lots of scrapes, stitches or knocked out teeth but no broken bones!
 
Jan said:
I'm a toe stubber.
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lol I am so sorry, but I spent many months in AA, and I could hear you in monotone saying,
"Hi, my name is Jan and I'm a toe stubber."
but wow to the pain and inconvenience of baby in diapers back in the cloth diaper and pins days...eeeek
 
3 toes on my right foot. I was 12, barefoot, and it was summertime at the beach. Getting into a car, I closed the door too fast before I had my whole foot in the car. 3 toes smooshed.

Super painful.... but I was 12.... a few days after, my cousin was annoying me, and was kind of playing tag. After he got me once, I jumped up and started running after him, to tag him good since I was so annoyed. I got like 50 feet and then promptly remembered my toes were broken. Ouch!
 
jk703 said:
3 toes on my right foot. I was 12, barefoot, and it was summertime at the beach. Getting into a car, I closed the door too fast before I had my whole foot in the car. 3 toes smooshed.

Super painful.... but I was 12.... a few days after, my cousin was annoying me, and was kind of playing tag. After he got me once, I jumped up and started running after him, to tag him good since I was so annoyed. I got like 50 feet and then promptly remembered my toes were broken. Ouch!
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I seriously almost peed my pants just thinking of that pain twice! yikes oh oh oh ouch ouchie, I don't think I can follow this thread anymore!
 
I have broken one bone... C2 completely in half. I was 14 and was riding with a friend to school when he flipped the car trying to dodge a squirrel. I was completely paralyzed though and had to have surgery to stabilize the bones. I was eventually able to walk again (after 32 days in the hospital) and now just have left side weakness and limited sensation on my right (no hot, cold or pain).

My daughter broke a toe jumping into a pool that was shallower than she thought, and popped the break back open a couple months later standing still :-/ She also broke her finger doing her aerial (cartwheel, no hands) at the dance studio.

Two days after my daughter went to the ER when her toe "rebroke", my son went to the same ER after breaking his wrist downhill mountain biking. It was his 10th run of the day, so he had a good run up until then.
 
I broke a bone in a pillow fight. True story. During college finals week, taking a break (ha ha) from studying. I guess my little finger on my left was sticking out (like when you drink tea) and that pillow bent it way back. Cracked the bone in the joint and had to wear a little splint.
 
The only broken bone I've ever had is my nose, and it's crooked to this day. I used to beg my parents for a nose job but it grew less important as I got older, and DH says it's one of the things he loves most about me :). It's really amazing that's the only one I've had considering I am the biggest klutz on the planet. My dad used to jokingly call me Grace when I was younger because I was always tripping, falling, running into things...:giggle

My oldest broke both bones in his forearm when he was 7...at church of all places. I had taken him to a youth group meeting and dropped him off. I got back home and got ready to jump online when the phone rang. This was back in the days of dial-up and no cell phone, so it was a good thing they called when they did. He had been showing off for some girls and slid across a table, off the end, and tried to put his hand down to break his fall. I will never forget being in the hospital waiting on x-rays and the nurse telling me they had to confirm it was broken as she lifted his wrist and it bent like an elbow, not in the elbow spot *shudder*. I was like "seriously, you can't tell it's broken?"

The other two have been break-free *knocks wood*, which is also kind of amazing since they both inherited my "grace". :giggle
 
I am pretty lucky so far I have only had a hairline fracture to my right ankle after a motorcycle accident in 1987. I was a passenger on my (now) hubby's bike when I got my foot caught under the rear bumper bar of the car that we slid sideways into, breaking it as it ripped out from it as we accelerated away to avoid going into a ditch. Initial x-rays didn't detect the break until over a month later when I was still on crutches because of swelling every time I tried to walk on it :D ... it took 3 months of hobbling before it got better. I also ended up with nerve damage in my shin (that hit the car first) but its not a problem unless I am shaving my legs :giggle

Hope your ankle is feel better Anne, and great to see you getting lots of pages scrapped while recuperating!
 
Toes, that about it. Amazing because I am such a klutz. But I love my milk, cheese, etc, so maybe that's why!
 
AnneofAlamo said:
strong bones!! but a toe break...is moooocho painful! eek, and oh such pretty colors! lol
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You just reminded me that my husband broke his toe, as well, and I was partially responsible for it! We were dating in college. I was in Taekwondo and he had done a bit of Aikido, so we decided to spar at the campus rec center (it was our idea of date night) one evening. I was actually not involved in the breakage- I was getting a drink of water between rounds and he decided to practice a shoulder roll. When he came up out of it, his pinky toe caught on the mat and broke bent at a 90 degree angle- it was sticking straight out of the side of his foot!

He had been a wilderness first responder for a few years and actually had to set a break or two at summer camps, so the first thing he did was try to set it himself. Then he had me try to do it. Then we went to the ER, because it wouldn't budge. Several hours later when he finally saw the doctor (and had a shot or five of pain medication), the doctor had to anchor himself in a chair and pull until his knuckles turned white to set it!

That was the last time we ever sparred, obviously. :)
 
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