Bones bones---and bone breaks --\--

Well I should know a lot about bones. I think my family holds the record of the most broken bones in a life time.

My father has managed to crack his skull, break his ankles, and have a compound fracture all in 25 shorts years of his early life. Just those years! I have managed to disable every single bone in my body, break my fingers and half of my toes. My mom has busted her own ankle. My brother has also broken his nose. Now tell me that is not a record?!

Most of our fractures were hairline.

such as this. It was barley noticeable in the X-rays and not much could be done. It was excruciating pain.
Now the next fracture is what I had with my big and pinky toe on my left foot.

yet I have also had a stress fracture on my foot as well. I had jumped at the same time as a soccer player and my toes collided with his cleats. It was enough stress to bend my toe back and create and compound fracture.

Now with my pinky...it was a complete fracture. When I mean complete, I mean like the bone snapped and now my poor pinky is crooked. The thinner bone snapped , and was moved to the side. I never went to the doctors to fix it. I was after all in the middle of a great freshman season of basketball and I was sure I can finish the season with some tape and gauze protecting my hand. It made it worse really.

just like this. The bone continued to repair itself and the calcium build up has left my pinky crooked and a slight calcium deposit giving my joint a rough rounded appearance.
Now my dad's injuries were more...extensive and slightly funny at his own expense. (sorry dad!)

This is probably the most common injury both me and my father have sustained.

you guessed it. Skull fracture. See both me and my father have sustained blunt force trauma to the head multiple times. IE basketball accident, football accident, just falling on cememnt. Everything to manage a head injury, we have probably done it.

Examples of reciving said skull fractures through blunt force trauma....
case number one: This shall be my story. It was during a basketball season my freshman year. Simple request from my coach ("Get me the *bleep* ball Wolf! <---- that was my given name in the season)  and I was chasing down a 200 lbs. girl from Karval. Long story short: I caught her, my own teammate used me and her as a stop wall i crack my head on the only patch of cement in the gym with ove 300lbs on me.

case 2: now imagine that with my dad. Full football gear without helment messing around with friends. Yea not so pretty.

Now on to the fun part.

Compound fractures. Thank goodness but unforunatley my father has. It was at his elbow joint. His elbow broke falling out of a cherry tree. Originally he and his sister thought it was a stick that was sticking out of his arm but it actually turned out to be a long bone. He would not have survived if his grandmother had not inserted her finger into the gaping wound and cut off the blood flow from his artery.

just at the elbow.

Now on to actual bones. It might explain more about fractures if I do this right.

THere is several different shapes of bones.

long, short, flat, and irregular.

Indside the bone is where a lot of the body magic happens.

We have compact bone which has no poruous lok about it at all. It is solid bone. Spongey bone is not yet mature bone that has tiny holes in it making it look like sponge. This is a classic example of the long bone in our bodies.