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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Next month I will be 66 and as yet I have never had a broken bone. How about you ? Having said that I will probably fall on my a@@@ tomorrow and break a bone. Laughing

I have broken a chicken wishbone at Christmas but that doesnt count. Laughing

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colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

Elbow, falling from step-ladder. Steel pin, painful. Now I know my a@@@ from the same. Rather have landed on it. Crying or Very sad

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4279 Location: South Cheshire

Broke my wrist a couple of years ago, came off a bike Sad

No not a motor bike....not even a push bike...it was a stationery exercise bike Embarassed

I was part of a charity spinathon team, came of the bike in the first couple of mins, got back on and then completed both the longest time and fasted average speed Very Happy

then drove 200 miles home, it was only the next day when my hand was swollen I thought to go to A&E, clean break had a cast for 6 weeks!

Dave

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Broke my wrist when a child, fell from second floor stairs

Broke my elbow falling off the back of a lorry, took two days to realise it was broken when I woke up and couldn't move my arm, if the Kerb had been a bit further away I would have been OK.

Judo training came in handy.

Had my finger broken by someone using a lorry as a weapon, tried to mow me down after an argument.
Only went to get an X-ray because it was 90 degree in the wrong direction.

That is a problem a have, a high pain barrier, split my head open once, was a hot day and had been loading and unloading trailers in the yard, so I had been sweating a lot, walked into the office and the governors wife fainted as I was covered in blood, had to have a couple of stitches

pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

Fell out of a tree when I was 13 while trying to photograph a pigeons nest. Thought I could pull myself up on the ivy around the trunk. It was a ruddy long way to the ground and I hit a branch on the way down that probably saved my life, but shattered my arm.
When I came round I had to get up and walk a mile back through deserted fields (one with a bull in it) through several gates and across a stile to my grandparents farm.
Then there was a 5 mile drive to the doc and another 20 to the hospital... I didn't enjoy any of it. I spent a week on hospital while they set it (badly) then re-broke it and set it again.
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Cracked my ribs many years ago and several times since, one of the most painful things I have encountered
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Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Left arm at the elbow joint never set right at the hospital and is permanently bent but i can still use it and it has never caused me a lot of problem, i was kept in hospital for a week most of that in bed but it was in 1946.

47Jag · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:15 am Post subject:

I've got a real tear jerker to tell.

At the age of 2 1/2 I sustained a cracked patella (kneecap) which then developed an abscess. Do I hear an AWWWW? It gets worse Sad

Tuberculosis then set in and I was in hospital in a plaster cast from the waist down for another 2 1/2 years getting out on VJ Day (15th August 1945). My mother told me the flags and bunting were flying for me.

Art

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

You must have had about 47Jags then. Laughing

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47Jag · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:42 am Post subject:

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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

So far so good, no broken bones for me - but it's very icy outside this morning....

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Broken rib. Got stabbed in the chest by windsurfer mast on a rough day.

Peter
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RUSTON · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 144 Location: Matlock.

Broken foot and toes courtesy of a motorcycle accident in 1968. Now have a left foot 2 inches shorter that the right one.

Pete.
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