Comments on: Lessons From My Broken Toe

By: CeleBrat

CeleBrat — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:00:26 +0000

Oh my gosh! I am laughing SO HARD while reading this….!

I too am accident-prone, and just broke my right 4th toe two nights ago by walking into the bed and “kicking” the bed leg with my right foot. It caused my toe to be bent over at a 45 degree angle, and was very creepy looking. It was the 5th time I had broken a toe, so I was used to it. But, I did need to go to the ER to get it set and straightened. (YUCK!)

My mom is also very accident prone, and has suffered any broken bones in her time. The most spectacular accident occurred after one of the hurricanes had just passed through Central Florida in 2004. It was the day after, and she went outside to check the mail. Her lawn is edged by maple (?) trees, that bear a lot of acorns, and the winds of the storm had caused all of the acorns on all of the nearby trees to be blown off. She inadvertently stepped on an acorn, did a cartoon “whoa-I’m-falling” thing, and fell, breaking her shoulder, elbow, and ankle.

On an acorn!!!

By: Alaska Lady

Alaska Lady — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:51:50 +0000

It was a dark hallway. Half asleep I walked toward my daughter’s room to say goodnight … SHAZAM! My right foot hits a vacuum cleaner HARD! “I think I broke my toe! I think I broke my toe!” The light was switched on and there was my right pinky toe at a 90 degree angle to the right. It looked really bad, but didn’t hurt as much as you think it would have by the way it looked. It was not an open fracture, but it has been about 5 weeks now and I too cannot move it or even feel it like I did before. It is also positioned differently now from its other four siblings. But I did survive.

By: Kraila

Kraila — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:52:00 +0000

Looks like those stairs are steep and each one is higher than it should be..

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:57:36 +0000

I already posted a comment to this about 6 months ago when I slammed my pinkie toe into my dining room chair… well I just freaking broke my big toe! i was walking up the stairs and got my toe caught in the hem of my pants… foot went one way… toe went the other. I went and had xrays this time…. definitely broken. so that’s… 6 broken toes now for me.

I called my best friend and told her I broke my toe and she LAUGHED! lol She says I need to wear steel toed boots… I say I just need steel toes.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:46 +0000

True story… as it’s 20 minutes fresh…

So I was *just* thinking…
My old man moved into the new house a few years before I was born…
That’s funny because my wife is having a baby in September…
He moved because he didn’t like stairs…
I don’t know what his problem is…
They’ve never been a problem for me…
That would have made him 40? No, no 30…
But not quite…
More like 28 or 29…
I’m 28…
That’s funny.
Here’s the last step, I’ll do a little hop around the corner.
*crunch, right-side big toe folds*
Ahh crap, that was the second to last step!

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:54:17 +0000

I am known as “accident prone” at work. (and everywhere else I have lived- many, many places) Let’s see… While in college, I stepped off a median and broke my ankle. It was literally 6 inches. My left ankle just decided not to come with the rest of my body and I crumpled on top of it. Eventually got to the campus clinic (a man came up to me and said, “Are you in need of medical assistance young lady!” I thought I was hallucinating.) The doctors there said it was just sprained. I argued with them that I’d heard it snap. They didn’t listen. The next day, it was tilting to one side, black and blue on one side, and it just didn’t look right. Went to another doctor who looked at it and said, “That’s broken.” I then had to move the next week, that wasn’t fun.
A few years later, I moved to Korea. My THIRD day in Korea I slipped in the bathroom at work (I was living at the school where I was working for a few weeks) and landed on my ribs on the toilet- bathrooms in Korea are slippery, there’s no shower curtains, you just get the bathroom all wet. I went to admin in excruciating pain, and they arranged to have an ambulance take me to the hospital. (talk about a great first impression) Turns out I cracked a rib.
Then, last year, my first year in China (I move a lot), I managed to slip going up the stairs and messed my knee up, was on crutches for 6 weeks (really not fun at high elevation-6000 ft, it’s like trying to run on crutches, you’re out of breath in like 5 steps). Then, 2 weeks after I was off crutches, I fell off my bike and landed on my face- right on the school playground. I needed stitches on my lip. That was school picture week. Then, this year, about a month ago, a bike hit my moped head-on, and I landed on my tailbone, and apparently dislocated it. Which I can tell you, is quite painful.
That’s just in the past few years too, I seem to have an ability to turn a simple slip into an injury requiring medical attention. It’s a talent. :)

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:41:44 +0000

(What to choose? what to choose?) O.k how about this:

I tripped over the line on the map.

As teenagers, my buddy and I were running down the street. literally “down the street” because it was on a hill. I tried to stop. My bottom half was stopping more than my top half so I stumbled and went “splat” face forward onto the pavement. I broke the cartilage in my right knee, scraped huge patches of skin off my forearms, and my right hip. I went for x-rays, no broken bones. Then I realized that where I had stumbled and fell was exactly on the borderline between two townships, as if I had tripped over the line that you see on a map. :p

By: Average Jane

Average Jane — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:35:38 +0000

The only time I ever fractured a bone, it was the knuckle of my little finger. It was a cold winter day and I was home on our small farm by myself. I went out to feed the horses and check on their water and noticed that the horse tank was frozen over. As I was breaking the ice with a sledgehammer, my little finger got between the handle of the hammer and the edge of the tank. It hurt a lot, but all the doctor did was prescribe a split for a couple of weeks.

By: Janel

Janel — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:54:09 +0000

I haven’t ever broken anything, but I do have a kind of strange injury/scar.

When I was 3 I was jumping on my bed, as most 3-year-olds do. I fell and my cheek landed right on my bedpost. Well, that hurt pretty bad, but my mom didn’t think anything of it until a few days later when I had a dimple that I didn’t have before. That dimple has never gone away. I was permanently scarred by a bedpost, but it looks like dimple, so no one’s the wiser.

Interestingly enough, my friend who lived next door at the same time got a dimple in her cheek in a similar way. She ran into a doorknob.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:58:46 +0000

Last New Years, I didn’t break anything but broke a glass on the floor. Being the great house guest that I am, I attempted to pick it up. Charlie the dog was interested in what I was up to and knocked me over landing my right hand on the glass. I cut my middle finger to the bone exposing muscles and all the other innereds. It bled so bad that the blood was actually shooting out like in the movies. Luckily the alcohol in the blood (New Years) probably cleaned the wound and deadend the pain. No hospital visit, but the tip of the finger didn’t have feeling for a while.

Sorry about your toe, but I take x-rays for a living and rely on people falling down stairs and such for job security. I’ve seen many an odd accident. Good luck with the healing!