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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / September 2005Kinda OT - Broken Femur (Not Mine)
My son, who lives at college now, called to tell me his friend and kinda dorm-mate (just drops in - ya know how college kids are) broke his femur. This is an otherwise healthy 18 year old athletic kid who jumped over a fountain and "landed funny" -- Isn't that kinda odd to fracture that large a bone without having some other problem like osteo or such? Apparently even the drs were shocked saying they usually only see femur fractures in car accidents or other severe traumas. According to the kids who took him to the hospital, nothing else was said about it. He had already had surgery to put a pin in his leg. They said he wasn't even in much pain either. No swelling, bruising etc. Anyway....just wondered what could cause something like that to happen other than osteoperosis? DianeW When I was in college most of my injuries did not happen the way I told my parents. Perhaps there was more to funny landing than the boys are letting on. Cooly > My son, who lives at college now, called to tell me his friend and > kinda dorm-mate (just drops in - ya know how college kids are) broke [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Anyway....just wondered what could cause something like that to happen > other than osteoperosis? DianeW > When I was in college most of my injuries did not happen the way I told > my parents. Perhaps there was more to funny landing than the boys are > letting on. > Cooly that's pretty much what I thought. something may well have been left out of the telling. Then again, if you land "funny" you can put way too much pressure on the bone at just the wrong angle with strange results.  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare What you bet he leaped off a tall building playing superman. There is some new craze of running full tilt up around walls down stairs over fences. Forgot what it is called but saw it portrayed on CSI something a while back. Not sure I would tell a parent either. The word stupid comes to mind. lol As if I didn't do stupid things as a child...college included. Duckie > When I was in college most of my injuries did not happen the way I told > my parents. Perhaps there was more to funny landing than the boys are > letting on. > Cooly hunh. years ago when I worked in a surgical ICU we had a fella who'd been running down the stairs, swinging himself around the landings after having a fair amount to drink. One time he kept going after swinging around and went right over the railing rather than continuing down the stairs. Took it hard in the abdomen from the railing. When they operated, they found his liver in his chest cavity. He spent 2 months in ICU, at least a month of that they really weren't positive about his prognosis but he ultimately pulled through. He was a really nice kid, too and had really nice parents. All his frat brothers were donating blood in his name because he used a lot of it. He stopped by the ICU the following year to visit and was finally healthy enough to play tennis gently again. You really gotta be careful what you do when you drink. It's amazing so many of us live to grow up! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > What you bet he leaped off a tall building playing > superman. There is some new craze of running full tilt [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> letting on. >> Cooly > My son, who lives at college now, called to tell me his friend and > kinda dorm-mate (just drops in - ya know how college kids are) broke [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Anyway....just wondered what could cause something like that to happen > other than osteoperosis? DianeW Cancer in the bones is a common cause. He should have that area PET scanned. Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ LOLOL, I am just glad it was not your son(while I laugh). Having been there for a couple of wasted years,,,,, I am afraid you have to tie them down to the facts a little.... Like,,,, over the fountain from the third floor???? I know it is hard for you to kind of step back from what is taking place but these years are going to be the best years of your sons life with memories to last him his whole life. You might do as I did with four kids and pray alot and sometimes be the bad guy and threaten to put a foot in some dark place if this happens again. Now,,, if you have never done such as that with any of your kids and they know it,,,,, you are wasting your breath and their time. It is prayer time with much pleading for help in keeping them safe. example from my past....... Being a pledge many things are expected from a person to prove a persons courage. Like going to a farm house at night and talking a farmer our of one of his prize piglets (while leaving a hundred dollar bill for security) and bring it back to the frat house with a dozen or so of the elders waiting. Each person had something different assigned to do and only the elders could laugh at what was taking place,,,,,a board was waiting with about 5 licks for one of us if we laughed.. Mind you,,,all these things were done after we put one arm behind our back and down a pint of white rose wine. I mean downed without bring it down. Some guys failed it right there. Let me assure you when that hits a person which takes a little while,,,,, a person thinks someone just pushed them from behind. And then there was the time when two groups of ten so called men,,, where completely stripped and our heads were tied into a long ladder each person on one wrung. We had to run through town several blocks back to the frat house in a certain amount of time. Late,,,, awhh you were late,,, its was another half pint of white rose and do it again. I can remember saying to one of my fellow plebes,,, fat boy if you stumble again,,, I am going to beat the living hell out of you and he knew I meant it and could do it. Never fell again and we made it the next time. Not a stitch of anything on,,,, dam those girls in their cars giving us hell.... Then there was the time we had to jump off the top of an oil derrick out in the middle of a small lake at night but that is another story. Harv > My son, who lives at college now, called to tell me his friend and > kinda dorm-mate (just drops in - ya know how college kids are) broke [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Anyway....just wondered what could cause something like that to happen > other than osteoperosis? DianeW > LOLOL, I am just glad it was not your son(while I laugh). Having been > there for a couple of wasted years,,,,, I am afraid you have to tie them [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > a small lake at night but that is another story. > Harv Ps to the pig story,,,, the farmer said to keep the piglet and he would keep the hundred.... I am sorry to say that I had to tell the farmer that he would find his other piglets gone if I did not get my money back. I am soo glad he believed me. End of that story.... :-) Considering the horror stories of hazing I read about and hear about on TV I'm oh so glad my son didn't pledge. Friend is still recovering in the hospital from the surgery and I'm sure there will be more to tell later. I'm only hoping there's more to tell about how it happened and not a bad medical consequence! DianeW Athlete, does he use steriods that could be softening his bones. SignatureLove and hugs to all Good thoughts coming your way too. Squirrely Jo > My son, who lives at college now, called to tell me his friend and > kinda dorm-mate (just drops in - ya know how college kids are) broke [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Anyway....just wondered what could cause something like that to happen > other than osteoperosis? DianeW > Athlete, does he use steriods that could be softening his bones. Anabolic steroids build bone density and are sometimes used to treat osteoporosis. Corticosteroids are not used for performance enhancement and can contribute to bone loss. Big difference. Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ I doubt it but who knows. I do know that he grew 6-7 inches in the past year. He was sooooo short that the Lacrosse team used to stuff him in a gear bag -- the kind each kid carries -- that's how small he was. They would carry the bag out to the middle of the field making a big presentation of it and set it in the middle of the field and out would jump this kid - the smallest lacrosse player on the team. Of course, the home team parents would just go crazy cheering and the visitors would wonder what all the hype was about until they saw him play. He was fast as all get out and could run circles around the bigger players, literally cutting under their outstretched arms.. On top of that he had an awesome shot. He was like the "secret weapon" Anyway, he finally grew in his senior year. I ask the kids if he was taking anything to help him grow and they said they didn't think so. I thought they only gave those kind of growth hormones when the kids were really young. Guess we'll never know. Thanks for all the input! DianeW |
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