How many bones have you broken?

Are you two accident prone, by any chance? Or do you partake in dangerous activities? Bravo75, you certain sound like you do.

Heels - I think I came close to seriously injuring mine a few times by using them as hammers. {duh} Fortunately, it caused only short term pain.

I broke my 2 wrist bones by being stupid, trying to walk on sheer ice over concrete in my slippers. There's obviously a reason they call them slippers. Stupid product. Why would anyone want footwear that slips unless you're a fancy dancer?

Other than that, the toes are a result of not wearing footwear around the house, because they've all been from stubbing them on things like bed supports and various corners around the house.

You're right, garyv, doctors can't help broken toes. You just have to wait them out. Ice would reduce the swelling, but that's about it.

I thought I broke my butt once when I slid off the edge of the top step to the basement, landed on my left cheek, hitting the edge of the step. It still hurts occasionally, and that was a few years back - again because of those damned slippers.

When I was a kid I often slid off the edge of the step and slid downstairs on my butt when I wore slippers, yet my mother always scolded me for NOT wearing them. Hey, mom. There was a reason.

Sylvia

If the damage is a problem, I'm sure they could do something, but generally they don't bother with broken toes.

I knew a woman once who had all of her toenails removed. It sounded so painful and was really weird to see her toes without them. Can't remember why she had it done.

I never used to have hammer toes, but after banging up the 4 end ones (2 on each foot) more than once, I now do - some worse than others.

Actually, high heels were not uncomfortable for me, even when I wore the 2-1/2" ones. But I know my toes were really close together when I wore them. Now I have gaping spaces between my toes because I'm usually in bare feet - consequently, lots of broken or otherwise injured toes.

I remember as a teen preparing to kneel down behind my boyfriend on our front verandah. A humongous splinter shunted its way under the toenail of my big toe. Wow. Was THAT ever painful. I've had a gap there between my toe and the skin ever since.

You'd think I'd learn.

Sylvia

Oh, that reminds me. I "might" have caused a small fracture in my lower right leg back in the 70s. I was making my way home across the fields (taking the road would have been about 1/2 mile compared to a few hundred yards). I reached a corner of a cow fence, just before reaching the road. I figured, I'd have to climb over, so I did. My mistake was to jump down the other side. My foot hit a hole or uneven ground and I felt an excruciating pain on the right side of my leg.

I stood there in agony for quite a few minutes before I could even straighten my leg. When I finally did, I limped through someone's yard to the street and proceeded to walk the rest of the way home - about a mile or more.

Today, I still feel a slight twinge in that spot every now and then. Never did have it checked out.

Sorry to hear about your friend. It sounds horrific.

Sylvia

Oh, that sounds a lot like what happened to my left hand when I broke the two bones (wrist, actually). When I slipped, I was in the process of throwing the toy for my dog which threw me off balance on the ice. As I came down, my arm was coming from up over my head. I slammed the pinky side of my hand and the heel of my hand onto concrete. My pinky finger is now pulled down into the palm of my hand.

The doc says it's caused by 2 things: 1) thyroid and 2) drinking alcohol. Since I have/had both, he blames it on that, despite my insistence that it's right where I hit the concrete and that the pain ran down that side of my hand for quite a few months afterwards. I'm sure I must have done something to the pinky bone where it connects inside the hand, but what can you do when your doc tends to disagree? Regardless, he says surgery is all that will fix it, and I'm not looking forward to that. It does make typing a bit of an issue, though. I make far more typos and grammatical errors since it got so bad.

Sylvia

hahaha that's true. I didn't realize how many I'd broken either until I started this thread. Last night, I discovered a severely bent toe on my right foot and recalled how much it hurt when I broke that one. It's so much bigger now than it used to be.

Sylvia

Yes, I've done that too. Funny though, how it developed. I practically forgot how it happened until much later.

I'd been walking across the lawn and my ankle went over on some uneven ground. At the time, I felt a jolt of pain in my ankle, but it soon went away. That was around 5 p.m. The next morning as I lay in bed, I felt sharp pain in my right ankle. I thought it was just kinked from sleeping. I stepped onto the floor and although it hurt, I made it to the bathroom relatively easily.

When I came out 3 minutes later, I couldn't make it back to the bedroom. Immediately, my foot swelled like a balloon and the pain was incredible. I was on crutches for a week or so.

They say that if you sprain an ankle once, you can do it again easily. Later when I went over on the same ankle and felt that pain, I thought, Oh no. Here we go again. But it didn't develop into anything.

What I also didn't know is that if you don't take care of a sprain, you can end up with a broken ankle. That's what my doc told me at the time. I wonder how that works.

Sylvia

I am so sorry you were injured but thank goodness you are ok!! Don't worry my 9 year old daughter already understands the dangers of it so by the time she is old enough to drive, and to drink (SEPERATELY) she will definitely know better than to do that and to not allow someone else do it! Hopefully more parents are educating their kids about it too.

I'm sorry to hear that. Accidents can be so devastating. Kids (and some grownups) are oblivious to what can happen. As a reporter, I've covered many accidents on the highway. Seeing the mangled bodies soon made me wake up. Do you think trotting these idiots through a morgue would do any good?

As far as my injuries go, I've been fortunate not to develop arthritis because of them - thank goodness.

Sylvia

Hang in there. I didn't have my first break until I was around 30, and I'm not sure it was a break. That's when I did my right leg (discussed above) crossing fields as a shortcut home. The break I DO know about was around 32 - one of my toes.

But since toes are such vulnerable things, you could have a broken toe if you've ever stubbed one, and not even know it. I didn't know my toe was broken until I showed this odd-shaped toe to the doc. He said, "Yes, you probably broke it at some point."

Sylvia

Fortunately none! I've been very lucky so far!