re: List all bones you've broken in your lifetime and how it happened.

Right tibia at ankle, right fibula above ankle, right radial head. Car wreck
Right upper fibula. Son spun jet ski to sling me and foot got caught in the footwell

Left arm- fell out of a wagon
Big toe- dropped bowling ball
Middle finger- fell off of a swing
Leg/ankle- sneaking out of the house to go on a date
Tailbone - trying to castrate bull calf. Riding in bed of pickup. Driver drove over a large rock at an excessive rate of speed
Two ribs- car accident
Wrist- tripped over the cat

Left wrist, went over bicycle handlebars at 13; by far the worst one as the bone was protruding big time. Didn’t break the skin, but the hand flopped like a fish out of water.

Left tibia, backyard football at 14.

Same bone 2 inches higher and six months later, basketball,

Right ankle, football,

Left ankle, jumping off a roof.

It was at this point my parents had me tested for low bone density. Doc said it was just a case of dumbass behavior (don’t recall the medical term for that)

Right collarbone, playing a game my dumbass friends and I invented called dodge bicycle at 16.

3 ribs all at once on my right side. Some friends and I were walking along an unlit road a tad late at night ; there may have been some underage drinking involved. They had dug out a section of the road and didn’t mark it off. I was walking on the outside and stopped right in, clipping my side on the way down about 8 feet. Getting out was a bitch. This was the worst recovery. Every breath was fire for the first couple of weeks.

There were a couple random fingers and toes in there as well.

All those preceded graduating high school in the early 90s. My total was 13 at that point.

Long stretch where I got less stupid. Rebroke my right ankle playing basketball with my son during Covid when everyone was at home. That was lucky 14.

Left Elbow - Basketball
Left Ankle - Basketball
Left Ankle (Side bone) - WallyBall

Sternum - hit by a drunk driver.

Left arm elbow - fell off a bridge

Right hand (multiple times) - punching objects instead of people

Right ring finger - retrieved a broken diving board out of a pool and it sandwiched my hand between the cement

Right pinky toe - walked into a barbell under the bed skirt while barefoot

Orbital socket - wife (while also sleeping) punched me in my sleep

Left ankle - Mountain biking Park City Canyons and went off a four foot drop that snuck up on me. Put that foot out and Snap!

Right ankle - Snow boarding in Park City’s Black Forrest. I fell and cartwheeled down the very steep slope. The board went on one side of a tree, and the rest of me on the other. Snapped my ankle. I was all alone in those woods, and had to make my way out on my arse.

I’ve broken my ribs three times, but I never knew it until a scan I had a few years ago. I’ve had some bad rib injuries and just sucked it up for a couple of weeks until they started feeling a little better. I think the injuries came from two snow skiing falls and getting hurled against the rip rap in the Bonnabel Boat Launch while kiteboarding.

This winter I fell from a kiting jump onto the new rip rap breakwater they built about two hundred yards offshore just east of the Bonnabel Boat Launch. It was the hardest fall I’ve ever had, and I thought I seriously hurt myself, but outside of a lingering left shoulder injury, I’m fine.

Every bit of this happened in the dozen years after I turned 50.

Right arm - football

Left arm/wrist - snowboarding

Left hand - breaking up a fight

I’ve never broken any bones but I’ve had five concussions.

Right tibia and the other bone in lower leg. Weight lifting after football practice

Dislocated shoulder (painful as a break) twice / football game

Right pinkie football game