Hairline Fractures

[Cory]

I had a very small fracture of my left middle finger once, while playing basketball.

I didn't know it was fractured until they took multiple X-rays.

It hurt like heck when it wasn't all taped up, that's for sure.

[team222badbrad]

In my younger years, while swinging on a swing; I was being stupid...

I was trying to jump off the swing and I had released my hands from the chains, in preparation for the jump.

Once the swing was at the peak of its back swing, I immediately fell face first into the ground.

While skydiving to the ground probably 6+ feet to the ground, I immediately put my hands at full extension to prevent my face from becoming injured and in return I got injured wrists.

Lucky or not so luckily, my chin barely hit the ground and I got up in the worst pain I have ever felt.

I knew something was broken or severely sprained.

After wards I went in the house barely able to open the door knob, plopped on the couch, and hardly moved an inch because of the pain.

One single movement of both of my hands added a sharp pain to the corresponding hand and of course this pain added onto the pain without the movement.

So, I sat around the house for a while in severe pain, when my mom saw me she could tell something was not right.

So I told her what I had done and she eventually took me to the ER.
(I am not a person that complains much, and it took my days to go the the hospital after one previous foot injury)

To end the story short after waiting in the Emergency Room for many many painful hours, I finally got in the X-Ray room and ended up getting a cast on one arm and a wrist brace on the other.

They were both broken (ouch).

Moral of the story:

(1) Don't jump off swings.

(2) The worst pain you probably ever have in a limb/limb's or other extremity's probably means it is broken...

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My Other Broken Bone

This broken bone is more like your injuries.

Once while playing four-square, with boots on, don't ask why because I do not know; I landed toes first on my right foot.

It hurt, but not all that bad.

Eventually after four days in pain, I finally said to my mom that I need to get my foot checked out.

I found out after those four days that two of my toes were fractured.

The hospital ended up giving me a toe/foot boot to wear around for several weeks or so.

How did I know something was broken?

Waiting four days in pain to realize that it was not a sprain or something that was not going to heal on its own.

[Amanda Morrison]

Seriously, I instantly thought of this once I read 'hairline' fractures.

I have been lucky enough to never break anything, but my brother had one in his wrist when he was tackled by a huge kid while playing little league baseball. Sigh.

[sanddrag]

One day I got the brilliant idea to ride a scooter down a wet driveway. Well, it slipped and the handlebars went into my ribs. I was only a little bruised, or so I thought. A few days the small bruise type pain was still there, but the bruising was gone. Also, now every time I took a deep breath, it hurt a lot. So I went to the doctor. They took an X ray but said everthing was fine and the pain should go away in a few days. Well, a few days came and went. Then it really started hurting to take any sort of deep breath whatsoever. So then like two weeks after I went to the doctor I get a letter in the mail saying they reviewed the X-rays again and I have a cracked rib (hariline fracture). No wonder I couldn't take deep breaths without hurting myself. There was nothing to do to fix it except relax and wait. So, I couldn't participate in PE for like 3 weeks and I got an F on my report card, the only one ever. But I brought it back up to an A by writing five 2 page reports on different sports.

[Andy Baker]

Fractures:

Left wrist: roller-skating in jr. high
Right hand: football in 9th grade
Left hand: football in 11th grade
Right thumb: wrestling in 11th grade, same day that the cast from "left hand" came off - doc hit me over the head with clipboard for this one

Muscle tear:
Right pectoral: 80% tear, lifting weights, about 10 years ago. It sounded like a burlap bag ripping. Ouch. This was the final move that made me switch from jockdom to geekdom.

AB