Broken Arms
Many people have never broken a limb. I've broken my left arm five times... just lucky I guess (or stupid).
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2003-06-04 |
Broken Arm: 1971[edit source]
| The first time I broke my arm, I was about 7, and I did it on an after school swim team that I was on... which begs the question, "How did you break your arm on a swim team?" The answer is stranger than you might expect... |
Going both ways?[edit | edit source]
Before I'd broke my left arm, I was ambilateral (or ambidextrous). I used to write or eat with either hand, and was pretty cross-wired. It used to bug teachers. One hand would get tired of writing, and I'd just switch. Or a teacher told me to write "I will not do xxxx in class" a few hundred times, and I'd do two lines at once; writing with both hands. And many other human pet-tricks.
The break only took a couple months to heal, but I favored it a lot longer than that. (I didn't trust it). And I had gotten out the habit of using it, so I became far more right handed. I couldn't write well with the left at all, and because I wasn't using it as much, so I became far less ambilateral as time went on (re-inforced with later breaks).
Karate Breaks: 1987 & 1988[edit source]
| My next big break (pun groan), was when I was 24 and in Martial Arts tournament, sparring (blue/green belt). I took a kick to the arm, and kept going. My wing kept hurting, and after nearly passing out a couple times, so I went to the Hospital and had it X-rayed. They got it wrong (ignored a hairline) it snapped a week later. Then I re-snapped it a couple months later. |
Loading a gun with a broken arm[edit source]
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Stairway Break: 2015[edit source]
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Conclusion[edit | edit source]
My broken arms weren't a big deal. They hurt more afterwards than during; the days of throbbing afterwards and that f'ing cast were far worse to me than the actual act itself. I got more cautious if for no other reason than the major annoyance of having to deal with being in a cast all that time. I'm still tender to that arm, decades later, just out of fear of going through that again.
Things could have gone a lot worse. I wasn't always bright about healing or risk taking. I wouldn't recommend cutting off of casts, or setting things yourself, or not just going and getting it checked out by a doctor. Any could have caused more problems than they did. But I got lucky and I have no lingering effect. It throbs occasionally, and can tell me of pending weather changes. I also have a little less range of motion in my left than in my right arm that comes with years of non-use (and the first elbow injury) - and I went from being ambidextrous to more right handed because of it. But all and all, it is fine - and sometimes we learn life's lessons the hard way. Those were some of my learning experiences.
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