I've never broken anything, needed stitches, or been to the emergency room. I'm especially lucky because I used to be on a gymnastics team. One time, one of the girl on my team was goofing off and doing gymnastics, and she broke her arm in 4 places! No one in my family has ever broken anything either.

Gee. Let me count the ways... I have broken my tailbone twice [both times on ice] my left foot has been broken twice and I was run over by a tractor at four. Growing up on a cattle ranch and being a tomboy on top of that is risky business, folks!

Since this thread is back up, I suppose I will add my other one. April of last year, I broke my finger at work. It took 5 visits to the orthopaedic surgeon, a surgery to put a screw in it, and one to take the screw out. From the day I broke it until the doctor released me was almost 3 months. With all of the doctor visits and 2 surgeries, I am very happy I didn't have to pay for it.

When I was a teenager, I broke two toes as a result of losing my temper. I was furious with my brother over something and in my attempt to kick him, he dodged out of the way and I kicked the piano instead. OUCH. I limped around for weeks. Hard way to learn a lesson.

The amazing thing for me is that I've not broken a bone in my whole life. Now, it's especially startling. I fall down things (notably stairs) so often and nothing has gotten busted yet. Must be true about drinking milk and herding up the calcium over the years. My bones won't break, given every chance to. So no broken bones to ever report at this time. Are teeth considered bones? If so, maybe I'm wrong .

I'm pretty resilient to falls and such as well. I'm about the clumsiest person I know and have also been prone to fall, not only down the stairs, but also up the stairs ... Oddly enough, I don't drink a lot of milk, I never liked the stuff and only now use it in my coffee so I don't think it's a calcium hoarding thing with me, I'm guessing my body just built up extra strong bones when it realized I was going to be spending most of my time stumbling around and falling on my butt. Did fracture a bone in my foot once when a hockey puck hit it straight on... teach me to try and play hockey with boys... Healed up quite quickly though, as the doctor commented it was the fastest healed fracture he'd ever seen. Unfortunately, it also managed to leave my left foot ever so slightly bigger than my right foot, so sometimes it's a pain to fit into shoes.

I'm highly breakable, which as Gemini said, is kinda weird, since I actually drink a lot of milk. I've broken my ankle (playing field hockey, I'm a goalkeeper and push my luck a lot), my second and third veretbrae (which meant a neckbrace for months), and then in my left arm...

All wrist bones, Ulna, Radius, Humerus, upper arm bones, scapula, and four bones in my hand. I fell out of a wheelbarrow... go figure. But I was in what was like a full body cast for a while. Had my jaw broken while they were trying to remove my wisdom teeth... yeah, I snap like a twig.

I was 32 years old before I broke my first bone. I fell while playing volleyball and broke my wrist. Strangely, when I landed I felt and heard the *snap* when it broke, but I didn't feel any pain until later in the day. And nobody told me that it was going to hurt after I got the cast taken off six weeks later. The unused muscles in my arm hurt like the dickens when I bent my wrist the first time. I didn't break anything else until this past winter when I broke my second toe.

It is odd how it doesn't hurt at the time. At least that is the way it was with my finger. I felt and heard a pop, but it didn't hurt until hours later when they put the splint on it to keep it immobilized until I was given an appointment with the surgeon. The day I broke it, we were short on help at work, and if I had left, it would have left one manager for the day. Since there was no pain, I went ahead and did what I could for the last 5 hours of my shift. It wasn't easy learning to be left handed that quickly, but I managed. In the 3 months it took before I could actually use my right hand, I became rather good at doing most things left handed.

Ballykissangel, I also broke one of my toes due to rough-housing with my sister. I was 10 or so and chasing her (after she through a ice cube down the back of my shirt). My toe hit the door frame, after her sleeve caught the door and swung it back at me...Ouch!

I also broke my ankle in college. I'd put my roommate and my bed up into bunkbeds to surprise her. I jumped out of bed like normal the next morning...from the top! I had a cast up to my hip, almost because I'd cracked it in two places and fractured it too. That was about 20 years ago. About five years ago, it started hurting when cold...ahhhh well. Aches and pains come and go!

I broke my foot when I was really little. I don't remember much. I haven't broken anything since, but I've been close. I cracked three ribs in January when I got smashed into a tree.