Busted elbow/clip-out incident

[Julia9054]

Ouch! I once cracked the bone at the point of my elbow falling out of a hammock onto concrete. Took about 8 months to stop hurting.
Husband has now insisted I use carabenas to hang the thing as my knot tying skills are clearly not up to scratch.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well Troops, it had to happen sooner or later, me and wee George planned to have a nice ride out to St Andrews last Thursday, lovely east coast weather, a perfect day. Now, I had recently fitted pedal adaptors so I could use the bike to get to work and not wreck my pedals with my army boots.
As we set off, I really had to press quite hard to clip my left shoe in. The alarm bells should've started then but no, first junction we came to I couldn't unclip, piled into the road with my left arm out to break my fall. Result, 1 broken radial head , absolute agony, no riding, driving anything. Does this make me a real cyclist now lol 8-}

Sorry to hear that & GWS.

A good example of why I am mystified with the often casual humour on here associated with a clip-less moment.

 

[jefmcg]

GWS. I broke my elbow when I was about 8, despite not riding a bicycle. It hurt much more than the two other broken bones I have had.

piled into the road with my left arm out to break my fall.

I hadn't read this post closely, now I see that's exactly the sort of fall that I had aged 8. When I broke my left wrist 40 years later, I had an amazing sense-memory flashback. Despite all the changes to to the technology, the business end of an x-ray room hasn't changed much. When I sat in front of the x-ray machine and put my arm on it, I was suddenly 8 years old again. The pain memory was so bright, I could nearly feel it. Through all those years, a little part of my brain had been storing how much that hurt. It was then I "knew" my wrist wasn't broken (it was), because it didn't hurt any where near as much as my elbow had.

Coda: I now know exactly how much a broken bone hurts. I didn't need an x-ray to tell me I broke my clavicle. Nor, oddly, that it hadn't healed despite 2 different doctors palpating it and telling me it was knitting nicely. The second x-ray showed me what I already knew. I hope you don't get to test your knowledge of broken bones again.

 

[mjr]

Coda: I now know exactly how much a broken bone hurts. I didn't need an x-ray to tell me I broke my clavicle.

Yeah. I'm another double-breaker, both done while running - although to be fair, the second one was because some lunk trod on it after I fell. I'd call it a very particular kind of extreme sickeningly hollow pain. There's nothing quite like it in my experience and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.