Title: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Clive on November 28, 2007, 11:56:17 AM Holy crap, some of you guys posting in the Broken Bones thread sound like you grew up in Beirut. In five intensive years of karate, I broke one toe and got a bloody nose once. That's it.
What, if any, lingering effects do your past (childhood) injuries currently visit upon you? From birth to 18th birthday, I never broke a bone and received a grand total of five stitches (accidentally put my left hand through the glass pane of a storm door, took a piece of glass into my wrist). No after-effects from it. OTOH, I injured my neck in a car accident when I was about 5, and it's become a daily issue. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Spanky on November 28, 2007, 12:01:24 PM Mine is I had to get a bigger wedding ring to fit over my knukle, on the bright side I now have a simple nervous habbit of spinning my ring on my finger.
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: spacey on November 28, 2007, 12:10:46 PM Broken elbow: I don't have full range of motion in my left elbow and wrist, some lingering nerve issues that extend down into my hands and fingers.
Broken ankle: A slight limp that comes and goes as the temperature rises and falls, also seems to accompany sprains. Surgery to repair cleft lip: left a portion of the left side of my upper lip and cheek partially paralyzed. Most obvious when I say anything that starts with or contains the letter "s." Other than that, just the usual psychological issues that come with being a middle child and having been born in the early 70s. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Aske on November 28, 2007, 12:13:24 PM no real lingering effects from my sports injuries.
some lingering physical effects and psychological issues from the other ones though Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Walfredo on November 28, 2007, 12:18:45 PM The only nagging injury I have is my right elbow. I injured it pitching every year in High School finally tearing the ulnar tendon with a dislocated ulnar nerve. It moves over my funny bone every time I move my arm. I needed Tommy John surgery to continue with baseball so I choose to quit and never had the surgery. It healed for the most part but still I aggrevate it at times usually golfing. The weather changes also really effect it. Sometimes my right hand goes numb for no reason. Sometimes it goes numb and/or hurts after I take a massive chunk divot.
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Aske on November 28, 2007, 12:27:34 PM Sometimes my right hand goes numb for no reason. Sometimes it goes numb and I get a visit from the Stranger [sm_shock] Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Clive on November 28, 2007, 12:32:03 PM Surgery to repair cleft lip: left a portion of the left side of my upper lip and cheek partially paralyzed. Most obvious when I say anything that starts with or contains the letter "s." Ernst Stavros Blofeld surrenders.Other than that, just the usual psychological issues that come with being a middle child and having been born in the early 70s. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: spacey on November 28, 2007, 12:37:48 PM Surgery to repair cleft lip: left a portion of the left side of my upper lip and cheek partially paralyzed. Most obvious when I say anything that starts with or contains the letter "s." Ernst Stavros Blofeld surrenders.Other than that, just the usual psychological issues that come with being a middle child and having been born in the early 70s. [edit]Holy *feces*, that was a big picture. Never mind. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Walfredo on November 28, 2007, 01:01:24 PM Sometimes my right hand goes numb for no reason. Sometimes it goes numb and I get a visit from the Stranger [sm_shock] Did you see Family Guy this week? Peter asks Meg's would-be suiter, "Do you ever lay on your arm until it goes numb, then play with yourself and pretend it is someone else?" Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: spacey on November 28, 2007, 01:03:44 PM Sometimes my right hand goes numb for no reason. Sometimes it goes numb and I get a visit from the Stranger [sm_shock] Did you see Family Guy this week? Peter asks Meg's would-be suiter, "Do you ever lay on your arm until it goes numb, then play with yourself and pretend it is someone else?" Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Uisce Beatha on November 28, 2007, 01:06:26 PM Nothing that I know of (like I said, would I?)
Knees are shot from roughly 85,000 mogul runs. My left one sometimes just turns to water without notice and I hit the deck. So far this hasn't happened on stairs or carrying furniture around. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Fuzzy on November 28, 2007, 01:09:19 PM ........ I never broke a bone and received a grand total of five stitches (accidentally put my left hand through the glass pane of a storm door, took a piece of glass into my wrist). No after-effects from it. [sm_shock] Wow. I did the same trying to open a kitchen window. 3 stitches in the wrist. My knees bother me from time to time but not from a particular accident. Just years of playing sports especially hoops. Nothing major though. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: hobbit on November 28, 2007, 02:00:18 PM After 30 years of soccer and counting, a dozen years in martial arts (kicks place a tremendous amount of stress on knee joints), and general sports activity - my knees make funny popping and grinding sounds (without hurting though). I had ACL replacement about 7 years ago (which led to my interest in golf - soccer was going to be too much one day.... soon - needed something else). I do not believe that the ACL replcement has anything to do with my knee condition though - the persistent stress over the years was doing this regardless.
I've left my head/mind out of this, much like Uisce - I just don't wanna know. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Clive on November 28, 2007, 02:33:10 PM “X Rays of Berra's Head Show Nothing.”
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: birdymaker on November 28, 2007, 03:52:49 PM my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation. [sm_dunno]
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: stroh on November 28, 2007, 05:59:47 PM Nada. So far.
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Aske on November 28, 2007, 08:18:16 PM my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation. [sm_dunno] so what caused the rest? :o ;) Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on November 29, 2007, 02:04:25 PM Other than some lasting affects from a car accident when I was 4, nothing. Unless you count scars, but they don't any after-affects. Well, except for the scar on my elbow, that is. And there's no pain involved, just people asking me, "What's on your elbow?"
Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Spanky on November 29, 2007, 08:43:01 PM I have scars. They run deep.
It all has to do with 4 Superbowl losses, in a row. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Aske on November 29, 2007, 08:44:21 PM I have scars. They run deep. :oIt all has to do with 4 Superbowl losses, in a row. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Spanky on November 29, 2007, 08:46:52 PM I have scars. They run deep. :oIt all has to do with 4 Superbowl losses, in a row. Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Aske on November 29, 2007, 08:49:26 PM I have scars. They run deep. :oIt all has to do with 4 Superbowl losses, in a row. i can imagine. have you ever visited buffalo, tx ? that place got razzed pretty hard back in the day. just a quick pop down i45. of course, there's not actually anything to DO there. lol Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Spanky on November 29, 2007, 08:52:09 PM I have scars. They run deep. :oIt all has to do with 4 Superbowl losses, in a row. i can imagine. have you ever visited buffalo, tx ? that place got razzed pretty hard back in the day. just a quick pop down i45. of course, there's not actually anything to DO there. lol Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: birdymaker on November 30, 2007, 03:44:07 AM my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation. [sm_dunno] so what caused the rest? :o ;) child of the 60's and 70's, no one came through unscathed. ;) Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: Uisce Beatha on November 30, 2007, 08:44:52 AM my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation. [sm_dunno] so what caused the rest? :o ;) child of the 60's and 70's, no one came through unscathed. ;) You're telling me... I own Jimmy Osmond records. [sm_anon] Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: spacey on November 30, 2007, 08:47:27 AM my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation. [sm_dunno] so what caused the rest? :o ;) child of the 60's and 70's, no one came through unscathed. ;) You're telling me... I own Jimmy Osmond records. [sm_anon] Title: Re: Effects of Those Sticks And Stones? Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on November 30, 2007, 03:23:06 PM I've passed by it. When the Stars were playing the Sabers in the Sanley cup a few years ago they changed he name of the town to Stars tx for the time. :'( |