Hardware Where Bone is Supposed to be Club
Maggie McGee IV wrote: Welcome to the "Hardware Where Bone Is Supposed To Be" club!
I would love to hear more about the injuries other people have and how you got through them. Some of you have shared bits and pieces but I think it would be fun -- and inspirational -- to have a thread of war stories. You all know about my broken leg. What have you broken? |
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| Ok...here's my best war story, or at least the one connected to my most enduring injury...
Several years ago, I was doing a booth at our local State Fair. Now, it's considered prudent to build a raised floor into your fair booth, since the grounds often flood when it rains. I hadn't done so, and after hearing several horror stories from other vendors, I decided to hire a guy to build a floor for me, who had done so for some of my neighbors. Unfortunately, when day one of the show rolled around, all he had done was lay down some old wooden pallets inside my structure, with no plywood (as promised) nailed down onto them. Well, I couldn't leave them like that, since someone was sure to trip and be injured...so my only recourse was to pick up the pallets and stash them behind my booth. The space allowed between booth spaces is only about a foot.  Somewhere in the course of holding a heavy pallet against my front while squeezing between boothes, I felt a sickening sort of crunching in my left shoulder...
It wasn't until months later, that I learned that what I had done was tore the cartilage. (rotator cuff). During the twelve-day-long State Fair, I just grimaced, and wimpered a lot, and did my best not to snarl viciously at perfectly nice people who wanted to buy my artwork!  |
| Ouch!!!
My brother had a rotator cuff injury and I think he was never really the same after. How is your shoulder now? |
Well, lets just say,...If I ever get held at gunpoint, and the bad guy says, "Stick 'em up!"...I'm in BIG trouble!  |
| Some of you already know this, but Bear bit me in the face this week. We were playing and I stupidly invited him to jump up on me. He jumped up, put his paws on my shoulders and went to give me a kiss. However, a kiss from a 130 pound puppy that's excited is anything but gentle. He came at me way too fast and gored me with his canine and it pierced right through beneath my lower lip. It bled like crazy, inside and out. The first two days I was a walking dribble cup. Every time I drank, it leaked out the hole. I finally scabbed up enough now to stop up the drip. |
| Several years ago, I was combing my hair before catching a plane to Denver for a soccer tournament. While combing, I felt a strange sensation (think someone breaking an egg on your shoulder). It didn't hurt just felt weird. Fast forward to the takeoff - the pressure exerted that pushes you back into your seat made my shoulder hurt so bad that I thought I was going to throw up. Cruising was fine - until the descent. and just think about the return trip!
Yep, rotator cuff! I conned the surgeon into trying PT for awhile instead of surgery as there wasn't a tear, just compression. Six months of PT meant my surgery was just to rip open the adhesions. My first experience with the ice machine. I've already mentioned the broken foot. I don't think I mentioned that the two weeks of not being able to to touch my foot to the ground meant that I couldn't go to camp with our 5th graders. (Ignore the huge smile) I hate camp as I am responsible for 300+ kids for a week. Best broken bone I've ever had (out of two). |
My second year of college and I was moving back into the dorm I lived in during my freshman year. I was carrying my first load in the front door and I pushed my right foot back to keep the door open for my sister behind me. My foot went too low and the gross/rusted/scraggly bottom of the door sliced into my heel. Needless to say I went to the hospital to get stitches. The doctor told me I was lucky. Just a smidge more and I would have cut into my achilles tendon. The only positive was that I didn't have to move anything else in for the rest of that 90 degree, humid August day  |
I have broken my nose and thumb when I was 8 (Im not very athletic and am horrible at softball) 
I have broken my big toe by wearing clogs and trying to "catch" one as it slipped off my foot (dont wear socks with clogs) And lastly my right elbow...carrying nicely ironed and folded sheets on a endusted wood floor wearing socks...saved the sheets but broke my elbow...(moral of the story on this is A. dont endust wood floors B. let the sheets go C. and most importantly if you ever break your prominent arm, dont let your husband put your makeup on.....) |
| Forgot to mention the actually broke thing that didn't have a good story.
broke my left arm - gymnastics |
| I broke my tail bone in Junior High after getting pushed down the school steps in a fire drill. Then I had to get up, cross the street and stand there until they gave the all clear. I remember just standing there with tears running down my face.
Then a year ago I dislocated my right shoulder when I parted company from my horse. Pete shied, I stayed with him (sortof), then he stopped and I didn't. I hoped nothing was wrong, but after I couldn't use it and it turned blue, I knew I needed to go to the ER - of the hospital where I work! It had anteriorly dislocated - the head of my humerus went in front of my collar bone. Thankfully they knocked me out and pulled it back in place. Daughter LeAnne was there, and they let her help too. She said it was real cool! After a long rehab and time in a sling, it is almost normal. And yes, I still ride my horse! |
| Darcy, you need to maybe not wear socks...
I broke my own nose. I was opening the passenger side door of my mom's Ford Explorer--you know, the newer, heavier kind...and it was parked in the gutter, so it was slightly leaning toward the sidewalk. I had a jeep cherokee so I was used to a lighter door...Anyways, I pulled open the door and it just flung open, literally swung me around in a circle and I heard a crack and I just stood there for half a second stunned and then I could feel the blood on its way...luckily there was Kleenex in the center console... I was in LA and I had to drive myself home...NOT a fun 2 hours |
| Oh wait. I thought you just wanted dog-related injuries! I don't even have time to list everything with the reasons but here's the short list:
Bones broken: Left wrist 5 times (first one was a very bad break and weakened it immensely) Right wrist 3 times (trying not to break the left one) Right elbow once (fell off a BMX bike trying to make a jump as a kid) Left Elbow once (snowboarding) Left ankle once (jumped out of a tree from too high) Clavicle fracture (volleyball, dove and landed on my chest) Every finger except my right pinky and both thumbs (pretty much breathing *sigh* Actualy, I think they all happened playing some sport-- too hard) Right big toe and right first toe tripped down the stairs) With all those broken bones, I've only had one incident of stitches-- 4 of them in between the webbing of my thumb and first finger on my left hand. I sliced that in half. You know how you're always told not to use a knife towards yourself? It's very good advice.  |
| Jan 28, 2000
Snowy winter day, BRAND NEW (3 wks old) car, less than 200 miles on it. An SUV (my first) BOY WAS I PROUD. Cardiac Cath Lab shut early because of the weather. I decided I would show off by driving everyone home in my new SUV 
Dropped the last person off, headed home, rounded a corner on the highway to find a car stopped in the middle of my lane (making a left hand turn). I wasn't going to to toooo fast but applied my brakes and nothing happened. Slammed into the rear of the stopped car. Other car and driver fine, it was a compact car and my SUV scooped under the back end and it landed on the hood of my car. Damage to the car but not the driver. Damage to me: shattered sternum broken collar bone torn rotator cuff three broken ribs Damage to MY car $12,000 AND I got a ticket for failure to yield the right of way!!!!!! (which the officer personally delivered to me in ICU at the hospital) All that and I HAD A SEAT BELT ON!!!! |
| Ouch Ouch Ouch!!!
You guys are amazing! What resilience! See, I knew this would be fun! |
| I had a broken heart a few times... |
I am so sorry Ron... 
I got pushed in the back ice skating and did a good job on my knee. It will eventually have to be replaced, but I am putting it off. All these stories scare me. Vic was in two accidents, one auto and one motorcross, and ended up having lots of new knee parts replaced. That was many years ago and he was due for a new one about 15 years ago. No problems yet (knock wood) but we are expecting it. I broke my arm moving a bed into the house. The hospital was convinced that it was domestic abuse. Probably because it looked a lot like a defensive break. I had to fill out paperwork to tell them I was not pressing charges. When the doctor asked me the first time I actually laughed at him. I also got pushed off a retaining wall once too. It was only about 6 feet high, but sure enough I heard the snap when I hit the ground. That was a pretty bad break. I was really lucky and it healed well just casted and my decision not to go the operation route turned out fine. Of course I was casted for 3 months. We average about a trip to the ER about once a year, and we are overdue. Hope my luck holds!! Shellie |
| We won't mention the 8 stitches that Suzi gave me. There's a reason that they call female dogs what they do!
When I was around 13 or so, I was playing raquetball with my dad. Well, I went up for an overhand smash when suddenly my hand went numb, the raquet shot away from me and clipped me in the mouth. Turns out that I dislocated my shoulder but since my hand was in the air, gravity was nice enough to reduce it for me. Over the next few years, I just dealt with it. If I reached into the backseat of the car and tried to pick something up it would pop out, if I stretched too far out it came. The only good thing about all that was that I was very muscular which helped to get it back in when it did come out. (Thank God no Mel Gibson style work there!) Fast forward again, I'm deejaying one night when my whole hand goes numb. Thankfully I was working for a pro soccer team and the owner was an orthopedic surgeon. Ended up with a Bankert Lesion repair. I had torn my capsule (the part that lays over your shoulder and holds the ball into the socket) and detached/stretched my labrum (the ring or gasket between the ball and socket). I'm told that it's actually a very impressive injury. Almost everyone just tears their labrum so, I ended up being a teaching case and those were some of the HOTTEST interns I have ever seen!!! I did get some rivets into my shoulder to hold the labrum in place so I can join the 'metal" club. WooHoo!! Oh and when the doctor tells you there won't be much of a scar, they always LIE!!!!! My one and a half in scar turned into six inches and 50 staples! |
| 50 staples! Wow! I have had a total of 79 staples, but
that was for more than one surgery. Fortunately, I have almost no scarring. You have to really look to find scars on me anywhere. Even my csections are all but invisible. I tell everbody I don't have scars because I take my stitches and staples out myself.
Shellie |
| YIKES!! OUCH!! |
Maxmm wrote: Oh and when the doctor tells you there won't be much of a scar, they always LIE!!!!! My one and a half in scar turned into six inches and 50 staples!
You'll never be America's Next Top Model now... |
| Damn! There goes that!
Can't it just be like Danielle's gap? Everybody will grow to love it? |
Maxmm wrote: Damn! There goes that!
Can't it just be like Danielle's gap? Everybody will grow to love it? It seems they're more accepting of tattoos now. There's an option. Maybe a rose? Or a dolphin? Or a butterfly? All very sensible choices.  |
| Jill, remind me not to hang around you!!!
My dog related injury was when Frank ran really hard into my shin one day while I had an inflammation in my varicose veins. The trauma caused me to have a Deep Vein Thrombosis (Blood Clot) behind my right knee and I ended up in the ER for that and was on clotting drugs & blood thinners for 3 months. (Still having current problems with my veins - they are being removed early summer.) My non-dog injury happened when I was 19 and I got broad-sided in my car. Ended up having a splenectomy, bruised kidney, broken ribs, lung collapsed and hairline spine fracture. Was in hospital for 9 days and with exception to a 12" scar running vertical on my belly, and that I seem to catch infections a little easier than normal people, I'm fine. |
| I'm late getting in on this - but just had to add my war wound,
Three years ago- my nieces thought it would be a blast to see me in roller blades. ( I am a bit older than a teenager )
So.. we all went down to my Mom's basement - and I put the darn things on- how much harder could they be than skates???
UMMM... lots harder. I took a spin around the basement- slipped and went shoulder first into the pool table. Broken shoulder was nothing compared to the pain of ALL of the family seeing it ... Did I mention it was Easter - and all of my siblings and nieces and nephews and Mom and Dad... and .. and .. and -saw my athletic ability. My husband's comment was "Dinner AND a show.
Lori |
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