Useless Personal Trivia

[rusty_armour]

Twenty-five years ago today, I broke my leg skating. As the event was kind of traumatic, the date has remained lodged in my brain. Once my leg healed, I did go skating again, but only once because I was so afraid of falling that I didn't derive much pleasure from it. I tripped this morning on the way to work, but I didn't fall or so much as bruise my leg. I hope this positive trend continues.

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[njc2007.livejournal.com]

Skating is very dangerous. Walking is only slightly less so.

I never broke a bone skating; but I did (1) have someone walk across my toe with a skate blade, (2) stab my knee with the blade, (3) develop a bone tumour in my knee, and (4) give myself a concussion. I was in figure skating for eight years. The concussion happened during a regular pleasure skating (straight and simple) excursion on perfect ice. I don't skate any more.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I have absolutely nothing to complain about! While I thought the skate blade had cut into my leg when I broke it (because of the sharp pain), I never received that kind of injury on the ice. I've also been fortunate enough never to develop a bone tumour or sustain a concussion.

The sad thing is that I was never in figure skating. I was just skating for fun in my parents' backyard. And, like you and your concussion, I was just skating straight and simple up a slight incline. Next thing I knew, I was down and my leg was broken. On another ironic note, I had a compound spiral fracture, which is usually a skiier's injury. My entire leg was encased in a plaster cast for nine weeks. During that period of time I discovered soap operas and ate entirely too much chocolate. *g*

[njc2007.livejournal.com]

There is absolutely no such thing as eating too much chocolate.

My sister was less lucky. She stepped off a bus and broke her leg in three or four (I can't remember) places. She was in a full-leg cast with two little kids and a husband who was away on business for several months. I moved in to help. I think I was 17 or 18. On a positive note, that was enough to convince me not to have kids of my own. lol

Oh, and she fell down the stairs at my Mom's last year and had to have multiple surgeries to fix that break. She is the major klutz in the family. I'm just the minor one.

My injuries sound worse than they were. The concussion was just a nasty headache that lasted for days so it was barely different from my regular life. The two skate cuts were joined a few months later by sitting on a steak knife and having to endure all kinds of jokes about rump roasts. lol

[avictoriangirl]

Yipes! I can see why you would remember something like that. *sends more positive vibes your way*

The last time I went ice skating I fell and cracked my head - hard. Hmmm. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. XP

[crew4.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but I just have to say hahahahahahahahahaha

[avictoriangirl]

Uh huh. I see how you are. *mutters to self about smart ass people* Humph.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

OUCH! That's nasty! I hope it didn't lead to a concussion or anything. As for whether it explains what's wrong with you, I think I'll leave it to crew4 to be the smart ass... *g*

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Clearly this is all down to Edgar Allan Poe, whose 200th birthday it is.

Or Gulnar the Bald.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I didn't realize it was Edgar Allan Poe's birthday...or even his 200th birthday! Quoth the Raven, "Happy Birthday!" :-)

Is it Richard O'Brien's birthday too? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he isn't 200 years old. *g*

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Nope - Gulnar just seemed to - somehow - pop into mind together with Edgar Allan....

Wonder why?

BTW he Edgar would have been 175 on the day of your skating accident. Spooky!

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

LOL! I see. No, I can't think why Edgar Allan Poe would make you think of Gulnar either. *g*

It is kind of spooky that Edgar would have been 175 on the day of my skating accident. I wonder if there were any other auguries in play on that fateful day...

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Long may it.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

From the sounds of it, I've been very lucky injury-wise compared to other people on my flist! The last real injury I had was a sprained ankle and that was about 3 & 1/2 years ago, I think. Anyway, hopefully the good luck will last. Hope you remain free of injuries too, smirnoffmule. :-)

[crew4.livejournal.com]

Ok, so that's a long time to remember something. As someone who has never broken a bone but has a 7 year old daughter who has broken three(!) then I can kind of sympathise :-)

*raises glass* here's to positive trends :-D

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Well, as my mom has pointed out numerous times, I'm my father's daughter in the sense that I can't let anything go. *g*

I'm sorry your daughter has already managed to break three bones at the tender age of seven. I've only broken the one and I waited until I was nine. Actually, as my pediatrician explained to my semi-hysterical mom after my brother also got injured around the same time as me (when he stuck his fingers in the gears of an exercise bike), she thinks it's healthier for kids to be sustaining injuries because it means they're busy and active. She felt that was better than a child who stayed in doors all the time and didn't earn a scrape or cut.

Of course, the pediatrician may have just been saying this to make my mom feel better. *g*

[lazigyrl.livejournal.com]

May I say ouch. Never broken a major bone, just toes. Which is odd considering my rep as a complete klutz.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Well, I would think that broken toes would be very painful! I certainly wouldn't want to experience that! :-(

I'm glad you haven't broken any major bones. If it makes you feel any better, I'm a complete klutz too. I only broke my leg because I tripped and I sprained my ankle stepping off a bus. *g*

[radiogaga80.livejournal.com]

I loved to skate only it rarely freezes hard enough these days. Sure you can go to a skate ring but I hate skating in circles. A week or two ago it did freeze for a longer period so that you could also skate "in the wild" - really, the entire country went nuts: traffic jams, everyone on skates and, of course, lots of accidents.

So... I prefer skates to, say, skis.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely been cold enough here for ice to freeze all over the place. It's nice that the Netherlands is so into skating and went nuts for it when ice did form outside of skating rinks.

I've only be cross-country skiing twice, but I really enjoyed it. I actually wouldn't mind trying it again. However, I think I'd better avoid downhill skiing as I've already sustained a skiier's fracture through skating. ;-)

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you made it through the day safely!

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I happy and relieved too! *g*

[dubghall.livejournal.com]

It's weird, but I have a fear of breaking something while skating, and I hadn't been on skates from the time we left Canada (34 years ago) until last winter when I got peer pressured into trying it again. I don't think I ever hurt myself back in my figure skating days, so I don't know where it came from.

Since I managed to not hurt myself last year, I'd planned on trying it again this year, but so far we haven't managed to get there (and we have a rink in the park near us now). (Of course, since I've managed to sprain an ankle while playing miniature golf, perhaps I'm wise to be paranoid about the ice.)

Anyway! Happy to know that you're unscathed!

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

It's weird, but I have a fear of breaking something while skating, and I hadn't been on skates from the time we left Canada (34 years ago) until last winter when I got peer pressured into trying it again. I don't think I ever hurt myself back in my figure skating days, so I don't know where it came from.

Maybe you just instinctively knew how dangerous skating can be! *g* Seriously, though, it's interesting that you should be afraid of breaking something when you hadn't hurt yourself back in your figure skating days. I remember being pretty fearless when it came to skating until I ended up in a cast.

Since I managed to not hurt myself last year, I'd planned on trying it again this year, but so far we haven't managed to get there (and we have a rink in the park near us now). (Of course, since I've managed to sprain an ankle while playing miniature golf, perhaps I'm wise to be paranoid about the ice.)

It's great that you managed not to hurt yourself last year! I hope the tradition continues in 2009! :-) And as someone who managed to sprain her ankle stepping off a bus, I can totally understand how you might have managed to sustain the same injury playing miniature golf! *g*

Anyway! Happy to know that you're unscathed!

Thanks! Maybe we can both remain that way for the foreseeable future! :-)