Have you ever broken a bone? How did it happen?  

I have broken my wrist once when I was young. It happened at friend's birthday party. We all were roller skating & I fell on my wrist. Then there was one time when I broke my shoulder bone. Well, it was calvicle bone. I fell foward & hit it on a rock.

Hi veromar,

I have had a few little mishaps over the years. The first time was when I was about ten years and broke my collarbone on a school playground playing leapfrog. My foot got caught in the girls coat pocket and I went down HARD.

The second time a motorcyle I was on stopped and I didn't - fractured my foot in that one.

Another time I was visiting a friend in the hospital, slipped on some ice and broke my wrist. Very convenient though, seeing as I was only steps away from the emergency department -

I actually broke one of the tiny, still unfused bones in my elbow area when I was pregnant. I was walking on a damp, busy street in thin, summer shoes. Apparently they didn't have any traction. I started to fall forward onto my stomach, and instinctively my arm went out.... I came straight down on it, and SNAP!!! People were getting angry because I couldn't get up (of course, because my arm was now broken and being pregnant I couldn't raise myself up with just one arm) but of course, no one came to help me.

I broke the bone that links the toes to the foot. it's the very same bone that David Beckham made famous when he broke his a few years ago. I broke mine for the first time 13 years ago, when I was 18 years old. I don't know how it happened but when I went to the hospital they told me it was a 'marching fracture' and that the bones in my feet were deformed (too long) so they were prone to breaking. The second time it happened on the opposite foot, I was 21 then and in a plaster cast for 12 weeks. Thanfully I have managed to last another 10 years without a break...and I am crossing my finger that it will never happen again.

i broke a bone in my foot just after i started dating my (now) hubby. it was the summer and i was running down the stairs to help him open the door as he was carrying a plateful of food in from the back yard and i missed the bottom three stairs.
my mom took me to the hospital the next day and i was lucky, they dont cast those kind of brakes, just give you crutches.

I "broke" my elbow in grade 4. It was actually dislocated but I ended up in a cast for the summer so I think it counts! We used to play a game we called chicken on the monkey bars at recess. It was really simple...hang by your hands from the bars, swing to the next bar, moving toward your opponent. As you came into range the goal was to wrap your legs around the other person and try to get them to lose their grip. I let go but my cousin did too and landed on top of me. When I came to my head was in my teacher's lap and my arm was off at a strange angle. It was my right arm so I couldn't write whatever year end tests they had planned. Cool. I also got to sit on the beach while everyone else went swimming. Not so cool.

My left leg was broken in three places when I fell on the ice at school in England. This was back in 1945, just after the war, and things were not as they are today. I was taken home and sat in the front room of the house, with no one home. I stayed there all day until my older sister came home from high school, and then waited until my mother came home from work.

They half carried, half dragged me several blocks to the doctor. My sister and I laugh about it now, and wonder if my leg was broken in three places before or after I was dragged screaming all the way to the doctor.

Believe it or not I have not. Actually I suspect that I might have broken my pinky toe, but since there is nothing they can do about that anyways I didn't go and have it looked at but it swelled up 3 times its size and was completely purple, and it hurt like you would not believe. I dropped a 64 oz can of nacho cheese on it. I did chip my elbow a little bit too, I was roller skating and doing tricks when I was about 15 years old, I had a partner and he swung me around and I didn't land on my feet, and landed on my elbow. That really hurt too. But no actual confirmed broken bones.

When I was in high school we had two dogs an adult german shepherd and a younger german shepherd. When used to keep them in the house in large crates and when I got home I would take them both for a walk and let them roam around the house.

Well since the adult dog was very calm I took him out first and he sat and waited for me to get our other dog. The younger one was very excited so when I opened the crate he bolted out, I grabbed ahold of his metal choke chain collar, and as soon as I got my finger in he started to turn around to play he kept going around in circles, twisting my finger in the chain tighter and tighter and took off running down the hall full speed. I heard and pop and a burning pain, I swore he ahd ripped my finger.

Turns out he ripped my acrylic nail off and broke my finger in three places, Still to this day my finger is crooked and hurts from time to time. I think he knew he hurt me cause no everytime he sees me from that day on he just sits next to me calmly!

I've broken my arm once. I was playing football. The grass was wet, because there it was raining hard recently. I was running on a high speed towards the ball when a guy from my own team ran into me. I had a long flight which ended landing on my arm. First I thought I had just twisted it severely, but then it started to hurt real hard, so I realized it's a bone fracture.