Ouch

[Lazarus]

Was out cycling with the youngest tonight (8 yo).

heading home and he fell off his bike.

No tears, no crying/screaming etc. Just said his finger was sore.

checked it and it looked "odd". Phone wife up to collect him - she took him to A&E

Turned out he broke his small finger and dislocated the one beside it.

goes back in tomorrow to get it sorted "properly"

i feel bad

 

[Raven]

You aren't a proper boy until you have broken at least one finger

 

[WiZe^]

hope it wasn't the middle finger :/

 

[Mey]

Pretty hardcore for him not to cry, are you in the dog house yet?

 

[Lazarus]

nope - wifes been "ok" so far......but there is still time to hit me with the guilt trip - specially as I am away this weekend

 

[DaGaffer]

i feel bad

Why do you feel bad? It's not like you knocked him off his bike...or did you?!!

Bit of pain is character building; I'm sure that the reason all these kids are going around stabbing each other is that they live such cotton wool lives they don't have that natural understanding of the consequences of pain that we all have from a million outdoor scrapes and smacked backsides. I've just counted up and I reckon I had at least 8 stitches before I was 8; it was up to about 25 by the time I was 11; the price of an idyllic childhood...

 

[Ch3tan]

Turned out he broke his small finger and dislocated the one beside it.

hope it wasn't the middle finger :/

Nice to see you are paying attention wize.

 

[Chilly]

Character building! tis a minor injury anyway, he got an easy lesson to not fall of

 

[Trem]

Boys always break things but I hope hes alright Laz.

I have broke my nose 3 times, my arm once, my ankles 3 times, my thumb twice, burst all the ends of my fingers open and likewise my toes all before I was 16.

Now I just injure myself whenever Ch3t suggests I do something around the house

 

[Chilly]

"burst your fingers open" ?? what's that all about then?

 

[Trem]

Was hoping no one would ask

I worked in a factory when I was a lad and I used to make the pastry for the sausage rolls. You got big lumps of pastry and put it on a rolling machine to make it flat. I thought it would be a good idea one day to hold the belt as it moved, it sort of gripped my hand and dragged it round the rollers. It burst all my fingers open, split my nails in half length ways. It still makes me shudder when I think about it, it was bloody cold as well to make the pain worse.

A forklift ran over my foot to burst my toes open.

 

[Cyradix]

burst open your fingers and toes? Ouch.... that's got to hurt
Makes me shudder just to think about it.

I guess I've been lucky (so far).
I've fallen out of trees, got hit by cars while cycling, fell while doing 90km/h on my bike, even fell from the 3th floor of a building and haven't broken a single bone.
Stiches on the other hand.... stopped counting

 

[DaGaffer]

I was literally an accident waiting to happen when I was a kid, my little brother as well. I;

*choked on a frozen fishfinger when I was a toddler (my Grandmother was babysitting and didn't realise I could climb as well as crawl apparently).
*had a shave when I was 3 (balanced on top of a washing basket, several towels and an upside down bin apparently - using an old style razor, nearly cut my head off)
*Got a swing in the face when I was five (5 stiches)
*smashed my head open on a boat slipway after slipping on seaweed (2 stitches)
*did exactly the same thing again about a month later (another stitch)
*fell out of tree onto a load of broken glass (15 stitches. In my arse)
*got a brick in the forehead for no apparent reason in Rhyl (1 stitch)
*fell over on the slipway again (1 stitch)
*mate sat on my right arm when I was pissed at a party aged 15 ("greenstick" wrist fracture)
*broke a load of bones in my left hand playing rugby (put my hand down in a scrum)
*broke my left arm when I fell off my moped a year later (compound fracture left wrist).

My brother's injuries were nearly as alarming

 

[Will]

I didn't have any breaks/stitches until I was 25. Since then, I've managed 8 broken ribs (in groups of 1s, 2s and 3s), broken clavicle, dislocated finger, dislocated vertabrae, compressed neck, and a large amout of gravel rash and scarring.

Best he gets used to it young, Laz. Plus, breaks in the your fingers/hand are really easy to do, and are more about luck, or lack thereof, than anything else.

 

[ECA]

DaGaffer - proof that evolution is a lie!

 

[DaGaffer]

DaGaffer - proof that evolution is a lie!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[mycenae]

I've had numerous operations on my knee....but all planned. Only one break, and that was a greenstick fracture of the wrist falling down the stairs....get Vae to tell you how he ended up in A&E at 3am with a nasty gash on his wrist, slightly pissed and in the company of a new girlfriend

 

[Edmond]

2 of you have now mentioned 'greenstick fractures', i got knocked of my bike by a car on the way home from school when i was 12, and i had a 'greenstick fracture' to the bottom of my left leg where the car bumper hit me, that was the last time, until now i have ever heard it reffered to, thought the doctors were just making it up....

i also put my bare foot into the spokes of the front wheel of my bike when i was 7, and had to be taken to A&E with my toe just hanging on by the skin, my mum wrapped it in a white towel, it was all red by the time we got there

Happy days....

 

[DaGaffer]

2 of you have now mentioned 'greenstick fractures', i got knocked of my bike by a car on the way home from school when i was 12, and i had a 'greenstick fracture' to the bottom of my left leg where the car bumper hit me, that was the last time' until now i have ever heard it reffered to,thought the doctors were just making it up....

i also put my bare foot into the spokes of the front wheel of my bike when i was 7, and had to be taken to A&E with my toe just hanging on by the skin, my mum wrapped it in a white towel, it was all red by the time we got there

Happy days....

When you're young your bones don't necessarily break, they can bend. That's a Greenstick. No word of a lie, my forearm was s-shaped. My friend Glyn, the guy who sat on my arm, passed right out when he saw it.

 

[rynnor]

I broke and dislocated my little finger as a kid at school (hitting another kid and accidentally caught him on the hip bone - ouch!) and they ignored my mention of injury and made me write with a broken dislocated finger which was rapidly going black n blue all afternoon - ouchie!

Most painfull bit was the local anaesthetic they injected directly into my hand before they could re-set the finger - that really hurt!