Broken Arm
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Watch VideosSo I have broken a few bones in my body. Those have been both my arms. It kind of hurts when you break them. I was kind of being dumb. Personal experiences, just for fun, kind of. I was a kid and I was swinging on a swing set, swinging on a swing set, and I was bored so I decided I was going to be shooting some zombies. So I pull out my fake pistol and I'm on the swings going really fast, shooting some zombies, but then they're coming too fast. There's too many of them. So then I pull out my second pistol. I let go of both sides of the chain of the swing and I'm like swinging hard and I'm just a little kid, just this little kid pretending to shoot zombies. And then I swing back and totally fall and just land on my arm. I remember it hurt a ton and I was in pain and then I had a fracture and got it fixed. So that was fun.
Another fun experience I have with broken arms is when I was in middle school I played football. My family went on a camping trip but I couldn't go because of football practice and so I stayed with a friend. He had a pool in his backyard and of course the bored fun teenagers we were we decided to not go down the waterslide because that's pretty boring but to jump off it into the pool. So we jump off it and it's going good and then one time I go to jump off and my foot totally slips just right out from under me and I just fall and just land flat on the cement just just all my weight just right on my arm and break it and just like roll into the pool and I'm just like oh it wrecked myself so then luckily I was able to get it cast and everything but the funniest part of it was my family was camping so they came back and I just showed up with the cast and was like how was camping and they were so confused it was awesome.
When I was little, I fell off the bed and I broke my arm. I hurt really bad.
Probably the worst injury I've ever had is probably this time when I broke my arm. I don't know if you can if you can see that, but I had this massive scar and shattered my arm in half. It actually happened when I was on a date. I was doing a little bit of free climb with some friends. I just kind of fell, broke it, saw my bone pop out of my arm. That was pretty cool for the first like 30 minutes. After that I was a little bit scared because I was in a lot of blood. Yeah, it's pretty fun. I got surgery, got metal in my arm, but I can still use my arm now so it's pretty cool.
I had a very bad experience with broken arm. Like I was playing basketball in high school and I think it was during my sophomore year. I was running down the court and I actually jumped and fell accidentally and I landed with my arm but then some other player got tripped and just landed on my arm too which led to my arm to be broken and I had to go to a doctor and it was very difficult because I couldn't use my arm for at least two months and I'm lefty and I broke my left hand so I mean I had to use right arm but it was a good experience to learn how to use right but it was very painful.
All right, so I broke my arm while playing football. I was tackling the running back and just kind of the way he fell, the way I fell, kind of pinned my arm underneath while he was laying down and that kind of just snapped my radius and my ulna. But, you know, it was hard. I wasn't able to play football for the rest of the season, but I was able to recover. I was able to do some exercises, you know, get that back up and running and the very next year I was back and playing. But it was a learning experience, you know, to one, take care of my body and also know, you know, what my limits are and what I can do to progress and also get better from it.
Fun story. When I was 12, I decided to jump off a swing and I snapped my arm, so that was a lot of fun. Like, both bones were completely, the ulna and the radius, that is, and it was a bit terrible, so that day I had to get a cast and it went all the way up to my shoulder. Yeah, that was a fun way to spend my graduation of middle school. Not that important, but still kind of funny. Yeah, I would not recommend it. Be careful on the swings and make sure that you be safe and don't break your arms. That's the best recommendation I can get. It's really annoying having a cast all the time, but it does help if you want to draw, I guess.












































