Not quite the same but when I had an MRI scan on my spine everyone who looked at it pointed to a different vertebra about 4 away from the one that was causing the problems and said "when did you do that?". No idea.
My son had an x-ray on his ankle aged 35 after a football injury. The consultant pointed at something else and said "that's where it was broken a while ago". He was 6 weeks premature, feet first breech birth and came out with a very black and bruised foot. Those forceps can do some damage.
Starting to feel very lucky getting to 63 with only two broken bones. An arm after a fall as as a toddler and a scaphoid as a teenager. In the subsequent half century involving rock climbing, motorcycling, hillwalking, running, and loas of cycling, nothing. broken
My last trip to minor injuries was after a fall off a kitchen counter hitting a sharp table cornerwith my lower back on the way down!!!! Excruciatingly painfail but nothing broken.
I had a tumble mid lock down (yes it was irresponsible but not intentional). I hurt my shoulder after slaming tree.
After an xray I was told it was ligament damage and left with a sling and substantial pain.
Once week later I visited the specialist for a follow up. After another xray, it was found I had broken my shoulder blade, several ribs and collapsed a lung.
Ended up in hospital straight after for four nights to my lung inflated and MRIs to conclude how many ribs I had broken.
my story wasn't so bad
crashed at the weekend in a race
nade it halfway through work on Monday, and hand was aching really bad, couldn't grip properly
went to a&e, had an x-ray pretty quickly, they looked at it, said it was fine sent me back to work
half an hour later, i got a phonecall, they said someone else had reviewed it & spotted a fracture in my hand, called me back and strapped it up
Two stories, one not a bone though.
Twisted my ankle badly in Summer '23 and it wasn't improving. Finally had an MRI scan and was referred to an ankle consultant surgeon chap, who indicated to me that I had not broken it this time, but had done so many years previously. I do recall 'spraining' an ankle when I was approx 9, and having a few days off school unable to walk. Maybe it wasn't sprained...
Second one was when I unmistakably snapped my Achilles tendon in 2010 (anybody who's had this knows when it snaps as the sound is so loud) and was told by the doc in A&E that it was just a sprain and to "walk it off". As it was MK hospital, a place I had had too many bad experiences with (awful place), I hobbled out and went straight to another (SMH), where they did the Thompson Test (basics) and immediately booked me in for surgery. 'Walk it off' my @rse!
