How many broken bones have you had?

@AmbiePam (113962)
United States
January 10, 2026 9:56am CST
When I was a little kid in California, a teenage girl dropped me, and my leg went through the wall, breaking it (my leg). When I was four, my collarbone was broken in a car accident. A few years later I broke a few toes, but those were just toes, what can you really do. Then, a few weeks before my mom died I broke my right ankle. What bones have you broken?
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@DaddyEvil (169300)
• United States
10 Jan
As a little kid, somehow I broke bones in my right foot. My brother, a medic in the Army, checked it and told mom there wasn't anything to be done except let the bones heal by themselves. (I was 7 or 8 years old.) A few years later, I broke bones in my left foot and mom said I'd just have to let them heal... (I have arthritis in those areas that only flares up and makes walking difficult if I get dehydrated. When they start to hurt, I start drinking massive amounts of water. In a day or two I can walk without pain again. I try to drink at least one gallon of water every day.) I broke my right collarbone working at at dog food factory (I was cleaning out a machine when an idiot turned it on. I jerked my hand arm out but it twisted my arm/shoulder and gave me a spiral fracture.) and had to wear a sling for a couple of months while the bone healed.
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
Wouldn’t they have put you in a cast or boot for your foot?
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@DaddyEvil (169300)
• United States
10 Jan
@AmbiePam I don't know what they do now but my brother didn't put me in anything when he checked my right foot so mom didn't worry about it with my left foot.
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@JudyEv (373023)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jan
@DaddyEvil When Vince thought he'd broken his toe, the doctor said they could X-ray it and if it was they could put it in plaster. It would hurt like hell for six weeks while it healed or they could leave it and it would hurt like hell for six weeks and heal itself.
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@FourWalls (83508)
• United States
10 Jan
The biggest one was my ankle, eleven years ago this weekend. I was in Chicago and fell in the snow. And, since it was my right ankle, my brother had to come up on a Greyhound to drive me home. I had a couple of tiny breaks (one in the hand and a hairline rib fracture that was so tiny that they had to do a nuclear x-ray to find it), but thank God that’s it!
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
A nuclear X-Ray, wow!
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@FourWalls (83508)
• United States
10 Jan
@AmbiePam — explains my glowing personality, doesn’t it!
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@LadyDuck (494443)
• Italy
10 Jan
Only my elbow, but it was a very bad and complex fracture, which required surgery to realign the bones. It took almost a full year before I could use my arm again.
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
That sounds quite awful.
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@LadyDuck (494443)
• Italy
10 Jan
@AmbiePam - It was really bad, I was only 7 year old when this happened and that silly elbow still hurts when the weather changes.
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• United States
10 Jan
I've lost count of how many times I've broken my little pinky toes but as far as major bones I haven't broken any (hope I didn't jinx myself by saying that)
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
Those broken pinky toes can hurt!
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• United States
11 Jan
@AmbiePam they certainly do hurt so I can only imagine how much more a serious break would hurt.
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@JudyEv (373023)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jan
Touch wood but I haven't broken any bones. Now I'm older I'm being extra careful not to! lol
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
11 Jan
Yes, I don’t blame you. The older I get the more cognizant I am of every movement I make.
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@LindaOHio (215266)
• United States
11 Jan
I've never broken a bone. Knock on wood. Just a sprained ankle.
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
11 Jan
That’s really good!
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@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan
I don't think I've broken any bones. I may have broken a bone in my toe but never did get it checked. I had an excellent bruise. Considering how clumsy/adventurous/oblivious to danger I am, I have no idea how I've got through life without breaking a bone or two.
@snowy22315 (203760)
• United States
10 Jan
I broke my left wrist once, and my right wrist once. Something happened to my little finger that got slammed in a car door when I was little. It doesn't lay flat, and isn't as straight as the other fingers.
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@May2k8 (19709)
• Indonesia
10 Jan
I think there are only two parts that are broken, it was my left arm and my little toe.
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@rebelann (116171)
• El Paso, Texas
10 Jan
I have broken the same 2 bones just above the wrist twice.
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
Ow!
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@wolfgirl569 (130495)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jan
I have broken a couple of toes is all
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@NJChicaa (126524)
• United States
10 Jan
Broke ulna and radius (forearm bones) back when I was in 2nd grade. Compound fracture. Good times.
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@AmbiePam (113962)
• United States
10 Jan
Oh, lord.
@dgobucks226 (37447)
10 Jan
I've never been officially diagnosed with a broken bone, but I bet I've had at least a few stress fractures. My ankle. fingers and definitely a few toes lead the list... Ouch!
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