This morning I experienced something I have never had before: the conscious, and full, awareness of a bone breaking. I will never forget the sound of that SNAP it made as my metatarsal popped. Me being the "I can wiggle my toes, it can't be broken" girl that I am, ignored the obvious and endured a few hours of icing it before giving in and going to the emergency room. But part of me knew the whole time.

So...anyone else ever break anything and hear it going? Or break anything and understand that it was even though you didn't have proof?

PS

OUCHIE!

Actually no. My brothers and I have done some really stupid things that deserved worse without breaking any bones.

You have my sympathies, how long are you laid up for and how big is your cast?

4-6 weeks at least, and I've got one of those big moon-boot things. I'm thankful they didn't shackle me with a plaster one. This one I'm allowed to take off if I want to wash my leg/foot, so I'm not going to have to deal with the stinky/scaly stuff that I remember my friends dealing with in school.

O.o

Oh damage.

You have my sympathies. (I have had a Broke L Pinkie [6 weeks], Major Hairline Right hand [4 weeks])

I know of casts. Best thing that saved me was having these long handled spoons I usually used for malts and floats. The hantle got between the arm and the cast and the scratching was heavenly. ^.^

Urgh. That sounds sucktacular. Never broken anything myself, so my ability to sympathize is limited.

You take care.

*comfies Ashnod*

I have managed to break both elbows in exactly the same place (radial head for the curious). I didn't have to wear a cast either time, but they were in a sling for six weeks each time I did it.

Hurts like hell.

*comfies again*

Painful feet are a nightmare. Bloody awkward and hindering as hell. I've suffered from extremely infected ingrown toenails and a number of soft tissue injuries in my feet. Not being able to walk right, hobbling about. Damn that's frustrating.

You take care.

Anyone wanting to see x-rays of this little event, check out

http://www.dark-kingdom.org/brokenfoot.JPG

Sorry to hear about your foot. How did it happen? Concrete monster attack ya again?

I played a lot of ball, so I've had way too many breaks, dislocation, hyper-extensions, (and mainly) sprains. I used to go back out before the injury was fully healed, so for several years I continually had to wear a brace of some sort. I still keep air casts for most of my body in the trunk of my car, just in case something happens.

I never heard anything happen, so luckily I haven't heard the same snap you heard. My worst break was while playing basketball. I was jumping in the air to get a rebound, and someone else smacked the ball down while I was still in the air. Somehow the ball came down below me and I stepped on it, and my ankle turned and my full weight landed on it. I remember the pain and everyone running over to me. I was trying to roll off of the court and someone grabbed me and held me down. I looked down to see what had happened, and when I saw my foot I saw the bottom of my shoe and not the top. The site of it made me sick and I started throwing up and couldn't stop. That was over 10 years ago, but I am still getting nauseous as I type this. There were a lot of other injuries, gone through physical therapy for different body parts, but that is the one that really affects me mentally.

So I guess I can say I understand your pain, and you have my sympathies. Good luck on your recovery.

It hurts to look at it.

Broke my arm right above the wrist when I was a teenager. Spent a long summer in a cast. Suckage, and it smelled horrible. On the plus side, it made me nearly ambidexterous.

*winces*

That's roughly what my left pinky looked like when I busted it. Broke clean through...

Well,I could tell you all about mine, but I do wish to make Ashnods pain seem some how lesser.I am sorry,you evil,fanitcal ...Oh Wait that your character..In any case,get better soon.

Oh, don't worry about making my pain seem lesser. I was just curious how many of us have gone through broken bones. Tell us the agonizing details!!!!

Shattered my left ankle with spiderweb fractures all along most of my foot in the Army during airborne training. Pulled some ligaments and such as well. Not fun.

Details,seven broken ribs,causing damage to the lungs.I had ~30% of my right lung removed,my left arm broken in no fewer than 10 places,wrist and hand well,they were a mess...Four years ago.

I like to call it drunk drivers in SUVs are evil.There was no part of my body that wasn't damaged,including spine and head.The only plus side,is that I did not pay a dime,for any of the medical crap,and I got a free nose job,oh,and aside from minor side effects I amd full recovered from it.(Ie,back pain,loss of dextarity in my left hand,and shortness of breath-compared to what I used to have.-)

Eeeek. Good thing you made it through alive at all. From the sounds of it, must have been a pretty close call.

Were you in an vechile when this happened?

Side walk,and about two blocks from a fire station.

Lucky to have few lasting effects,and lucky to be near to a five star private hosspital.It's a scary place from medical ethics,but boy do they have a well trained staff.

Was the driver DUI/DWI? Also, why was the hospital scary from a medical ethics viewpoint?

Yes he was.Well,some people went in ,were treated and had no records of their vistsif you had enough money they would do "things"....

Wow, and that is so illegal it stuns me they would be that stupid. Scary.

Not,so.Unethnical, not illegal.Legally speaking hospitals only have to keep records if the staff would have good a faith basies to think there was foul play,and or a health risk to other.Gun shot wounds,beatings,and the kind.In cases of dieses that aren't comutical no laws are there,but ethically records are still kept.

That's a very sad and scary story Agnelli/Signy. I'm just glad you have recovered and are ok.

wow. Take care.

Something I didn't know. Eeeekkk ....