Effects of Those Sticks And Stones?

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.

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.

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. 

Ernst Stavros Blofeld surrenders.

LOL

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?"

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.

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.

my wife says the knock in the head left me with a mild case of retardation.