Have you ever broken a bone? How did it happen?

I've broken limbs once or twice in my lifetime. I broke my arm falling out of a tree, I broke a leg after coming off a motorbike I shouldn't have been riding, I broke the same leg a few years later after slipping and falling down a flight of steps.

The vehicle I was travelling by collided with a heavy truck leaving me injured with 7 broken ribs and 2 fractured vetebrae. I was advised rest for almost 4 months and had to go through physiotherapy to get my movements back. I am fine in a way that I can move about freely but with caution while bending and lifting heavy objects. Praise the Lord!

My left leg was broken in three places when I fell on the ice at school in England. This was back in 1945, just after the war, and things were not as they are today. I was taken home and sat in the front room of the house, with no one home. I stayed there all day until my older sister came home from high school, and then waited until my mother came home from work. They half carried, half dragged me several blocks to the doctor. My sister and I laugh about it now, and wonder if my leg was broken in three places before or after I was dragged screaming all the way to the doctor.

Luckily I never had any experience of breaking any bone. I hope that I will also not encounter such later on. I do consider my work before as risky considering that I worked in a rescue unit for about 13 years. But I think I have been safe in most of what I do despite the fact that my job is quite dangerous considering that I never suffered any accident.

I actually broke one of the tiny, still unfused bones in my elbow area when I was pregnant. I was walking on a damp, busy street in thin, summer shoes. Apparently they didn't have any traction. I started to fall forward onto my stomach, and instinctively my arm went out.... I came straight down on it, and SNAP!!! People were getting angry because I couldn't get up (of course, because my arm was now broken and being pregnant I couldn't raise myself up with just one arm) but of course, no one came to help me.

i had a simple fracture of my ankle in the 1990's. i was running in the field and my right foot entered into a hole in the grass and the pain was terrible. my friends prepared an ice pack from the canteen and put it to relieved the pain.but my ankle swell and next day, went to hospital and the xray showed a simple fracture. was in cast and hopping around for i think 6 weeks. my fracture healed well and i do not have any pain.

When I was in high school we had two dogs an adult german shepherd and a younger german shepherd. When used to keep them in the house in large crates and when I got home I would take them both for a walk and let them roam around the house. Well since the adult dog was very calm I took him out first and he sat and waited for me to get our other dog. The younger one was very excited so when I opened the crate he bolted out, I grabbed ahold of his metal choke chain collar, and as soon as I got my finger in he started to turn around to play he kept going around in circles, twisting my finger in the chain tighter and tighter and took off running down the hall full speed. I heard and pop and a burning pain, I swore he ahd ripped my finger. Turns out he ripped my acrylic nail off and broke my finger in three places, Still to this day my finger is crooked and hurts from time to time. I think he knew he hurt me cause no everytime he sees me from that day on he just sits next to me calmly!

i broke a bone in my foot just after i started dating my (now) hubby. it was the summer and i was running down the stairs to help him open the door as he was carrying a plateful of food in from the back yard and i missed the bottom three stairs. my mom took me to the hospital the next day and i was lucky, they dont cast those kind of brakes, just give you crutches.

veromar oh yes and I had to wait til I was 80 to do it, darn. I tripped and fell very hard, landing on my left shoulder on the conrete sidewalk beside my favorite restaurant. I knew I had really injured something because of the pain in my shoulder, but I just thought if was dislocated. I tried to get to my feet by putting my hands down on the concrete and pushing myself up ,but my left arm just dangled. some bystanders called the paramedics and they insisted I had to go to the hospital and be xrayed, I had said my doctor is right across the street, but they told me they did not want to leave me like that as i might have other injuries. Spires Restaurant: one of the waitresses came out but I told her the paramedics were already here. so i landed in the hospital, the xray showed I had r eally smashed my left shoulder. so I had to have the whole shoulder joint replaced with an artificial one.this whole thing cost a whopping 86000 dollars which Thank God my insurance paid. Istill have not got all the usage back of my left arm. so Idid the broken bones thing up in a big way.

Believe it or not I have not. Actually I suspect that I might have broken my pinky toe, but since there is nothing they can do about that anyways I didn't go and have it looked at but it swelled up 3 times its size and was completely purple, and it hurt like you would not believe. I dropped a 64 oz can of nacho cheese on it. I did chip my elbow a little bit too, I was roller skating and doing tricks when I was about 15 years old, I had a partner and he swung me around and I didn't land on my feet, and landed on my elbow. That really hurt too. But no actual confirmed broken bones.

I have broken my wrist once when I was young. It happened at friend's birthday party. We all were roller skating & I fell on my wrist. Then there was one time when I broke my shoulder bone. Well, it was calvicle bone. I fell foward & hit it on a rock.

I've broken my arm once. I was playing football. The grass was wet, because there it was raining hard recently. I was running on a high speed towards the ball when a guy from my own team ran into me. I had a long flight which ended landing on my arm. First I thought I had just twisted it severely, but then it started to hurt real hard, so I realized it's a bone fracture.

I "broke" my elbow in grade 4. It was actually dislocated but I ended up in a cast for the summer so I think it counts! We used to play a game we called chicken on the monkey bars at recess. It was really simple...hang by your hands from the bars, swing to the next bar, moving toward your opponent. As you came into range the goal was to wrap your legs around the other person and try to get them to lose their grip. I let go but my cousin did too and landed on top of me. When I came to my head was in my teacher's lap and my arm was off at a strange angle. It was my right arm so I couldn't write whatever year end tests they had planned. Cool. I also got to sit on the beach while everyone else went swimming. Not so cool.

I broke the bone that links the toes to the foot. it's the very same bone that David Beckham made famous when he broke his a few years ago. I broke mine for the first time 13 years ago, when I was 18 years old. I don't know how it happened but when I went to the hospital they told me it was a 'marching fracture' and that the bones in my feet were deformed (too long) so they were prone to breaking. The second time it happened on the opposite foot, I was 21 then and in a plaster cast for 12 weeks. Thanfully I have managed to last another 10 years without a break...and I am crossing my finger that it will never happen again.

I'm lucky, because I've never broken any bones. I have actually twisted my foot, which then hurt the muscles in foot. But that was it. Nothing was broken. At first, I didn't think anything of it. My foot hurt only a little, and I thought it would be fine. I just kept on walking on it, but it began hurting more and more, until I couldn't really walk it. By that time, it was a little swollen. It wasn't really pleasant, but it was terrible.

friend breaking my wrist sounds so painful, well i have broken my tiny toe, i slipped on a wet floor and hit the corner of the wall, my tiny toe took all the beating of my body weight and it was crushed lol, it was so painful, i could feel something inside just gave way, i had to take out an x-ray scan and i was right about it, it haven't felt that before, i mean it hurt quite much and i could know i have fractured myself.. it was then cast for months and it was uncomfortable to move around in the first few days but then i got used to it, well that the only incident i had broken my bone, don't wanna experience it again.

Hi veromar, I have had a few little mishaps over the years. The first time was when I was about ten years and broke my collarbone on a school playground playing leapfrog. My foot got caught in the girls coat pocket and I went down HARD. The second time a motorcyle I was on stopped and I didn't - fractured my foot in that one. Another time I was visiting a friend in the hospital, slipped on some ice and broke my wrist. Very convenient though, seeing as I was only steps away from the emergency department -

Hi there friend.. I encountered an accident when I was just 3 year old. My joints in my right leg has been dislocated causing my right leg to be 2 inch shorter than my left leg. After 13 years I encountered another accident that caused my left leag to be broken. I was so depressed during that time but I don't have any choice but to stay strong and face my life's journey.

Oh yes! I can't forget that. I had a vehicular accident. I was riding in a public vehicle, and the driver was being reckless that he overtake the other car and then he didn't know there is a truck next to it so he tried to stir it to the right and then to the left and then he lose control. The inclined to the left and then bumps to a truck parking the side of the railway. And then I broke my pelvic bone due to that accident. I had complete and comminuted closed fracture that time. I was in the hospital for 16 days and I was like 12 days bed ridden. I wasn't able to walk normally for almost 3months, I used crutches and I had therapies that time. ANd then I had 4 motnhs of not doing things like jumping, playing sports or anything extremes. And now, it's almost a year that that accident happened. How can I forget that, many things happened after that and it was a first time experience. O_o

I have not ,maybe I am lucky!