Trivial Tuesday - Oct 10, 2023

tjscraps

tjscraps

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I've loved all the threads started this weekend and learning so much about everyone, from what you love and are scared of to what your scrap space looks like!

I'll keep this one short and sweet - have you ever broken any bones?
 
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This question I thought of as I broke *yet another* toe today while trying to fix my washing machine (stubbed it pretty hard against it).

Me - I've broken all my toes, most of them multiple times. Once you've broken them once it's very easy to break them again. Yay me?

I've also had 2 fractures - both on my left arm. No full breaks though (other than the toes).
 
Maybe. My right middle finger got jammed pretty hard in middle school gym class when I was trying to catch a football. It swelled up, I couldn't bend it for awhile and it really hurt. My dad said it was fine so I never had it officially checked. It still feels ever so slightly tight when I bend it still. Other than that, just a few painful twists/bruises.
 
A few years ago I broke my ankle doing something so dumb. I was trying to get the snow off the roof of my car and our snow scraper wasn't long enough and I'm short so I stood inside sort of inside on the ledge to try and get the snow and I slipped and fell.
 
Aaaw! Trina, I hope your toe heals quickly!

When I was a kid, I fractured my right wrist several times. I fractured my left elbow & right wrist at the same time.
I broke the bone under my knee cap as a teen.
I broke my right elbow when our middle son was about 2 (chasing him... that's its own story. lol).
The most recent break was my right wrist (again) in 2019.

I am a total klutz as this layout says... it's a skill :D
 
KristinCB said:
A few years ago I broke my ankle doing something so dumb. I was trying to get the snow off the roof of my car and our snow scraper wasn't long enough and I'm short so I stood inside sort of inside on the ledge to try and get the snow and I slipped and fell.
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I have done this exact move dozens of times ... but I've never broken anything doing it. Ouch!!!
 
tjscraps said:
This question I thought of as I broke *yet another* toe today while trying to fix my washing machine (stubbed it pretty hard against it).

Me - I've broken all my toes, most of them multiple times. Once you've broken them once it's very easy to break them again. Yay me?

I've also had 2 fractures - both on my left arm. No full breaks though (other than the toes).
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Yipes! That sounds painful!! I didn't realize it would be easier to break them after the first break!! Wow!!
 
craftytam said:
Aaaw! Trina, I hope your toe heals quickly!

When I was a kid, I fractured my right wrist several times. I fractured my left elbow & right wrist at the same time.
I broke the bone under my knee cap as a teen.
I broke my right elbow when our middle son was about 2 (chasing him... that's its own story. lol).
The most recent break was my right wrist (again) in 2019.

I am a total klutz as this layout says... it's a skill :D
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That's a lot Tarrmy!!
 
I broke a finger years ago and never did anything about it, today it's sort of crooked.

I fell from a chair and shattered my wrist in 2000. Ended up having emergency surgery (the day after Christmas) - I had an external fixator for 4 months and had another surgery to remove it. I then had a hard cast for another couple of months. I did not do well with the external fixator - hubby had to clean my arm everyday for me, because I could barely look at it.

Here's an illustration, because the "real" photos are just plain gross
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I went through a lot of physical therapy and today do not have full motion of it (cannot turn my hand to "palms up"). I also have 2 dandy scars. :)
 
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tjscraps said:
I have done this exact move dozens of times ... but I've never broken anything doing it. Ouch!!!
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We've since bought this and it does the job (we don't have a truck though so i don't know if it would reach that high.. ) I'm seriously scared of doing that ever again lol. I'm still not quite sure how i got back down the driveway and into our house after it happened - i guess just adrenaline or something? because once I was inside on the steps i wasn't able to move my foot

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Jill - OUCH!!!
 
I've broken mine left underleg (Do you call it that?). But not in een normal, horizontal, but vertical and into a spiral so I needed to have bed rest voor eight weeks. Wasn't even aloud to go the toilet or just stand up for a bit. I was 10yo and it was just torter to not even be aloud to go to school ad play with my friends.

(if there where spelling mistakes or wrong sentences please tell me, trying to learn this)
 
I have probably broken a bone in my hand and a toe or two. I never got them x-rayed, but when they swell up and go blue almost immediately, I think that's a good indication.
 
I've broken both ankles (at least I think it was both, and not the same one twice lol). First time was falling down slippery stairs in the winter. I was home alone at the time... that was before cell phones. Crawled up the stairs into the house and called my sister the ER nurse to come save me. She didn't think it was broken.... she was wrong.

Two years ago I was out on an early morning walk in the neighborhood, which includes a local cemetery. Stepped into a hole with one foot and the other one did a weird twist.... broke it. This was just after 6 am. Thankfully I had my phone with me. Had to call my oldest son and wake him up to come get me and take me to the ER.

Broke my toes numerous times too. I'm a klutz.
 
No broken bones but a lot of bruises and bumps, I bruise really easily. I am so accident prone my family wants me in bubble wrap.
 
Yes, I broke my left elbow when I was in the first grade. I tripped while walking and looking at a bridal magazine in the salon, while waiting for my mom having her hair cut. She ended up not having the cut and rushed me to the ER with her hair dripping wet from the wash. I had 2 surgeries for it and many physical therapy sessions. I still have the stitches scar until today, though they fade quite a lot.
 
I've never broken anything- plenty of sprains & bruises but no bones... finger crossed, knocks on wood, etc etc! ;)
 
KristinCB said:
We've since bought this and it does the job (we don't have a truck though so i don't know if it would reach that high.. ) I'm seriously scared of doing that ever again lol. I'm still not quite sure how i got back down the driveway and into our house after it happened - i guess just adrenaline or something? because once I was inside on the steps i wasn't able to move my foot

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Jill - OUCH!!!
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I need to look into one of those! I drive a Ford Edge in the winter, Mark drives a truck. I park in the garage now, but thats only since we moved (we didn't have a garage before). His truck doesn't fit, so he has to do clean it off all the time.
 
I've never broken a bone, but when i was a kid, my dad caught me with my leg in the couch trying to break it so I could get crutches.
 
I've broken the baby toe falling on wet floor sliding foot first into a wall. I broke my big toe at a wedding (ouch).

My worst break was tripped over a pool noodle and because I hit a non-moving garden clog I managed to break four of the metatarsals with a couple of them shooting over to the wrong side of the foot. I still remember not being sure how to even breathe from that pain! This was a week before Thanksgiving and we had family coming. I talked my husband through meal prep. Healing that foot was very hard - over 3 years there were 3 surgeries. But for the next two years it still hurt so much that I couldn't walk for exercise. During the first healing of it the bones did not want to heal and even a stress fracture happened right in that foot! So the docs had me wear a bone stimulator to try and get the bone to heal. Nope. Not gonna do it. Finally they had to graft bone from the heal on my other foot. Eventually I became a walking person again - but as is common in especially bad breaks, the foot has some sort of arthritis issue and occasionally I can't even walk on it. I dont need to break anything else. (Let's not discuss sprains or bad backs, okay? LOL)
 
I broke my ankle, severely spraining it, spraining my foot, and pulling my calf muscle. It was a long recovery and I missed a deployment I had wanted to go on because of it to Bulgaria
 
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