Never broken anything myself, but I'll never forget the first time I saw a double femur fracture. I'm a paramedic in training and on an ambulance ride we pulled up on the scene of a head on car vs. car collision. Well, the lady in car #1 wasn't wearing her seat belt and submarined (instead of flying out the windshield she was low enough in the car that she went down instead of up) her knees struck the dash below the steering wheel, giving her a compound fracture in both femurs (the upper bone in your legs) and a nice pelvic fracture to go with. I've talked to guys with 35 years experience in EMS who have never seen that, and I've never seen someone in so much pain.
The moral of the story: DMBand doesn't pay attention to the topics of threads, and...WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!
Daaaaaaamn. Doesn't it take something obscene like 1700psi to break a femur end-on??
Buddy of mine in high school went down a cliff in a car, and ended up with a cracked shin - his knee got wedged under the dash mid-air, and the car hit nose-first, compressing the footwell, breaking his leg.
Considering it was a 250' cliff, he was pretty frickin' lucky.
Daaaaaaamn. Doesn't it take something obscene like 1700psi to break a femur end-on??
Buddy of mine in high school went down a cliff in a car, and ended up with a cracked shin - his knee got wedged under the dash mid-air, and the car hit nose-first, compressing the footwell, breaking his leg.
Considering it was a 250' cliff, he was pretty frickin' lucky.
Okay, kiddies, gather round, and Grampa Kickaha will tell you a story...
Two guys from high school were driving to an early morning job (stockboys at a grocery store), and the passenger was sleeping. The driver dozed off on the highway.
I'm from Wenatchee, WA, originally, and if anyone knows the area, then US 2 going into town goes along the top of a plateau over the Wenatchee River. Couple hundred feet more or less straight down, some places quite a bit higher. This is, of course, where they went off at 60mph.
Funny thing was, they managed to shoot right between the guardrail and where the plateau extended out further.
If they'd gone off a half second later, they likely would have flipped over the guardrail and gone careening off into space much further from the cliff than they did.
If they'd gone off a half second sooner, they probably would have shot perpendicular off of the cliff edge where the plateau tongue extended out.
As it was they flew off at a slight tangent to the cliff face, such that they hit more or less wheels first on the face, not once, not twice, but *three* times, never flipped over, just bouncing off of it. This slowed them down quite a bit until finally on the third hit they flipped and rolled down the last 50' or so, and landed on top of a house, nose first.
The best part? This house was built sort of into the cliff, and had a flat roof with a lawn on it, and they finally came to rest wheels down.
Looked *really* amusing.
Derek's shin was broken, the driver's left hand was smashed because when he woke up in mid-air, he grabbed the roofline through the open window in terror, and it rolled over his fingers.
They were *amazingly* lucky.
"Good morning, could you call an ambulance? We seem to have landed on your roof in our car..."
I've only broken one bone but it was enough. My junior year of high school I was at a church sleepover thing and after Bible study, we decided to go to Arby's for dinner. It was about a mile away at most and when I crawled into our 15-passanger church van (behind the driver's seat) I decided for the first time not to wear my seatbelt. Stupid me. We went through an intersection as the light turned yellow and another car made a left-turn into us. Now, it was a drizzly October night, but still, how do you not see a big white van? Anyway, we swerved, car hit us anyway, and we went over the curb into the big yellow pole that holds the stoplight at about 35-40 mph. I flew forward,and broke my jaw right underneath my lower front teeth. The main front four immediately flew up through my lower lip and reached about the roof of my mouth. Thank God for braces and good oral surgeons. Four root canals later, my teeth are fine and the bone has nicely healed.
Moral of the story: Even being in a church vehicle coming from Bible study does not save you from the laws of physics.
I was born using a caesarian section. The doctor did obviously cut too deep / at the wrong place, so he cut my femoral. AFAIK I got a femoral neck fracture. There exists a picture of me lying in the incubator (one month too early) with an extension bandage. Luckily, no permanent damage. Only a 4 inch scar on my right thigh is left. I'm (and my wife is also ) lucky he didn't cut a bit more to the left...
Apart from that, I never had a fraction. Only some ligamental strains.
(I hope my description makes some sense. I had to look up all these medical terms)
But, I've torn the ACL in my right knee 4 times. That makes up for my "luck" otherwise. I'm on my fourth reconstruction now and it's held up for 3 years (knock on wood...).
My right radius was broken two times at the age of 4 and 6. I broke my elbow and one rib three years ago when the stool suddenly collapse under my feet.
Since that i use only professional stools, not the cheap brand at 50 $
i fell down when i was maybe 9, from 10-12 feet .. broke my ankle. still hurts when its cold, if i have high heel shoes, if i walk or run too much, and it doesnt turn on the way it should when i swim. but i guess not worth the hassle trying to fix it. at least i walk normal.
later, broke my left wrist, falling on ice.
later, because of ice, i fell down in motorcycle .. had a hair fracture on my right leg (above knee). that was blueish till the year aftter, now it hurts only if its real cold, or if i do too much sports (if i have any muscles .. after too much walking, the muscles make it feel).
only those i guess. oh, luckily anotehr time falling on motorcycle i had a really heavy coat. so i broke the back of the coat, not my back.
Broke the toe next to my pinky toe while hopping up and down with one leg wrapped around my neck...at about 4 AM PT on 9/11/01 just before going to bed and waking up to crappy news. I've never gone to see a doctor about broken bones though. I think that toe might have previously been broken at some point because it didn't bend at the knuckle even prior to the last break. That's probably why it broke again in the first place.
Never Broken through a bone, but I was in plaster when I chipped a bone in my right foot. I was about 10 and we was jumping of the school fire escape. I have broken the "capsules" in both my big toes right one i did twice, that took ages to heal. I have broken my nose at least twice. and I busted my knuckle, 2 minutes into my brown belt grading, it hurt like a muthatrucker and it was painful to gip after that but I still passed.
this may be my longest post ever....in 40 years I have:
had hernia sugery at 3 yrs old, parents think it was from fighting with my brother.
broke my left fore-arm at 4 yrs old falling from a bed my siblings and I were jumping on.
I broke my heel at 10 yrs old jumping out of the neighbors tree from about 15-20 ft.
I broke my tailbone at 13 playing football.
I broke Mike Pica's leg playing football the next year.
I have severely sprained my ankles, hip, shoulders, and wrist(not what you think)
I broke my right hand on some guys head in a fight when I was 25 and wore out three casts in 6 weeks because I coudn't stand not lifting weights for 2 months. I was, and am still gnarly (and sometimes conceited)
I had left shoulder surgery in December to repair torn ligaments, cartilage, remove bone spurs, cut away some bone for impingement, and remove a hefty portion of bursa, I am still a long way from recovery BTW, and I dont think i'll let them fix my right shoulder.
also note that I have had stitches 15 times that I can remember
3 on my head/face, 2 on my arms, 1 on my foot, 1 from hernia operation, and 8 on my hands/fingers.
thats quite a histiry now that I think of it .....Randy
i let my baseball bat swing me around and hit the ground, and in the process that bat bounced off the ground and knocked one of my front teeth in half.
i was playing basketball and went up for a rebound, and the ball came down on my pinky, jamming it. apparently i jammed it hard enough that it actually cracked the bone by smashing into it at the joint.
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Originally posted by bunge
Here's to swimmin' with bow legged women.
i play to an audience of one.
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Never broken anything myself, but I'll never forget the first time I saw a double femur fracture. I'm a paramedic in training and on an ambulance ride we pulled up on the scene of a head on car vs. car collision. Well, the lady in car #1 wasn't wearing her seat belt and submarined (instead of flying out the windshield she was low enough in the car that she went down instead of up) her knees struck the dash below the steering wheel, giving her a compound fracture in both femurs (the upper bone in your legs) and a nice pelvic fracture to go with. I've talked to guys with 35 years experience in EMS who have never seen that, and I've never seen someone in so much pain.
The moral of the story: DMBand doesn't pay attention to the topics of threads, and...WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!
Daaaaaaamn. Doesn't it take something obscene like 1700psi to break a femur end-on??
Buddy of mine in high school went down a cliff in a car, and ended up with a cracked shin - his knee got wedged under the dash mid-air, and the car hit nose-first, compressing the footwell, breaking his leg.
Considering it was a 250' cliff, he was pretty frickin' lucky.
Originally posted by Anders
Kickaha: Looks like you could make a living by suing your coaches.
*laugh* Possibly.
Muahahahahaha.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Daaaaaaamn. Doesn't it take something obscene like 1700psi to break a femur end-on??
Buddy of mine in high school went down a cliff in a car, and ended up with a cracked shin - his knee got wedged under the dash mid-air, and the car hit nose-first, compressing the footwell, breaking his leg.
Considering it was a 250' cliff, he was pretty frickin' lucky.
I'd like to hear that story!
Okay, kiddies, gather round, and Grampa Kickaha will tell you a story...
Two guys from high school were driving to an early morning job (stockboys at a grocery store), and the passenger was sleeping. The driver dozed off on the highway.
I'm from Wenatchee, WA, originally, and if anyone knows the area, then US 2 going into town goes along the top of a plateau over the Wenatchee River. Couple hundred feet more or less straight down, some places quite a bit higher. This is, of course, where they went off at 60mph.
Funny thing was, they managed to shoot right between the guardrail and where the plateau extended out further.
If they'd gone off a half second later, they likely would have flipped over the guardrail and gone careening off into space much further from the cliff than they did.
If they'd gone off a half second sooner, they probably would have shot perpendicular off of the cliff edge where the plateau tongue extended out.
As it was they flew off at a slight tangent to the cliff face, such that they hit more or less wheels first on the face, not once, not twice, but *three* times, never flipped over, just bouncing off of it. This slowed them down quite a bit until finally on the third hit they flipped and rolled down the last 50' or so, and landed on top of a house, nose first.
The best part? This house was built sort of into the cliff, and had a flat roof with a lawn on it, and they finally came to rest wheels down.
Looked *really* amusing.
Derek's shin was broken, the driver's left hand was smashed because when he woke up in mid-air, he grabbed the roofline through the open window in terror, and it rolled over his fingers.
They were *amazingly* lucky.
"Good morning, could you call an ambulance? We seem to have landed on your roof in our car..."
Moral of the story: Even being in a church vehicle coming from Bible study does not save you from the laws of physics.
"I don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as I've got my plastic Jesus..."
Originally posted by Kickaha
Naw, that's what the plastic Jesus statue on your dash is for. Duh.
"I don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as I've got my plastic Jesus..."
"what we have here is failure to communicate"
Apart from that, I never had a fraction. Only some ligamental strains.
(I hope my description makes some sense. I had to look up all these medical terms)
But, I've torn the ACL in my right knee 4 times. That makes up for my "luck" otherwise.
Since that i use only professional stools, not the cheap brand at 50 $
later, broke my left wrist, falling on ice.
later, because of ice, i fell down in motorcycle .. had a hair fracture on my right leg (above knee). that was blueish till the year aftter, now it hurts only if its real cold, or if i do too much sports (if i have any muscles .. after too much walking, the muscles make it feel).
only those i guess. oh, luckily anotehr time falling on motorcycle i had a really heavy coat. so i broke the back of the coat, not my back.
i guess not very girly fractures i have..
had hernia sugery at 3 yrs old, parents think it was from fighting with my brother.
broke my left fore-arm at 4 yrs old falling from a bed my siblings and I were jumping on.
I broke my heel at 10 yrs old jumping out of the neighbors tree from about 15-20 ft.
I broke my tailbone at 13 playing football.
I broke Mike Pica's leg playing football the next year.
I have severely sprained my ankles, hip, shoulders, and wrist(not what you think)
I broke my right hand on some guys head in a fight when I was 25 and wore out three casts in 6 weeks because I coudn't stand not lifting weights for 2 months. I was, and am still gnarly (and sometimes conceited)
I had left shoulder surgery in December to repair torn ligaments, cartilage, remove bone spurs, cut away some bone for impingement, and remove a hefty portion of bursa, I am still a long way from recovery BTW, and I dont think i'll let them fix my right shoulder.
also note that I have had stitches 15 times that I can remember
3 on my head/face, 2 on my arms, 1 on my foot, 1 from hernia operation, and 8 on my hands/fingers.
thats quite a histiry now that I think of it
i let my baseball bat swing me around and hit the ground, and in the process that bat bounced off the ground and knocked one of my front teeth in half.
i was playing basketball and went up for a rebound, and the ball came down on my pinky, jamming it. apparently i jammed it hard enough that it actually cracked the bone by smashing into it at the joint.
Originally posted by MagicFingers
this may be my longest post ever...
thats quite a histiry now that I think of it
Have you ever seen "Unbreakable?"
To this day if my sister and I are arguing about something I'll bring up our biking accident-she knows I'm kidding but always gives in.
I love my sister!
Jeff