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I think I broke a bone in my foot once in college when I jumped two and a half stories off a parking garage but I just walked it off for the next couple of months cause you can't exactly splint your intermediate cuneiform or whatever

dan, that's what i keep telling him but he says going to the dr won't do shit. but i'm pretty sure he at least needs to get taped up, or the bones might not heal right? he has promised to go in a week if the pain isn't any better. xpost

ok guys i will tell him itr says he needs dr and tape.

i'm pretty sure i broke a bone in my foot when i was a kid cuz some bitch ran over it. i was too scared to tell my mum so i never got it checked out. more than 20 yrs later i'm having some pretty serious problems with that foot. it's always given me problems since the accident but has been getting much worse.

mookieproof is always breaking his bones and getting beat up in friendly athletic contests, we should ask him

RR, you were too scared to tell your mom that someone RAN OVER YOUR FOOT?!

Oh yeah, even if he doesn't go to the doctor, it's tape time. Otherwise shit likes to move around a lot and re-break a time or two.

when i lived in england i went to the gym in a seriously unsober state. unfortunately, the power shut off when i was sprinting full-tilt and i flipped over the bars, landed on the side of my leg and broke the hell out of my ankle.

ow

yeah my mum was kinda mean/crazy. the stupid thing is that it was totally not my fault: i was walking down a busy street after school, went to cross a side-street, checked back for turning traffic and saw a car right at the corner with NO indicator on... stepped out onto road and lady ran over my foot. she stopped to ask me if i was ok but i just ran off. i figured if i told my mum she would just blame me and get mad. since she did that a lot.

RUBY U DO NOT HAVE PEANUT BUTTER PLEASE DON'T LIE ON THIS BOARD ANYMORE IT HURTS PEOPLE

power outage happening to intoxicated person on treadmill is totally hilarious mental image, sorry

Rubyredd, that just SUCKS. I'm sorry. Are you seeing a specialist about your foot now?

xpost OW remy!

My only broken bones happened when I broke my wrist and shattered my elbow when I was 30. The shattered elbow was very, very bad in terms of functionality, but breaking a bone was less painful than I expected. (BUT I have a high pain tolerance, apparently)

I'm kind of amazed that hasn't shown up in a ben stiller or a vince vaughn movie actually

as for me since the foot fracture was never confirmed or denied the only thing I have ever actually broken on record is my nose

Get writing, Tombot. No plot necessary. xpost

Also broken nose sounds like serious OW-NESS

it was actually pretty funny when it happened; it was only in trying to walk to the stupid nationalized health service place that i realized how badly i had hurt myself.

the best part about breaking your nose is the terrifying amount of blood that comes out of your face

!

I've given myself shin splints but have never broken anything.

tombot OTM on broken noses best described as GUSHING GOUT OF BLOOD

John, basically I'd like a list of injuries and diseases that you have not had.

chlamydia
leprosy

BOTH CORRECT REMY WINS

oh, wait, chlamydia?

i still think that despite the amusing sea captain disease, getting Scarlet Fever still wins my obscure extinct disease Family Feud round

anyone want to start a poll?

It's a close competition between Scarlet Fever and scurvy, but honestly I'd have to say SCURVY wins, John.

xposts to sara: no, not seeing a specialist. just doing my usual trick of ignoring it and hoping it will go away. right now i just can't handle the expense. it's not like i can't walk or anything, it's jsut that being on my feet for 40 or more hrs p/week is aggravating it (cramping and the like).

someone emailed me with this re getting married while on a visa, getting a status adjustment and staying in the US:
"The laws have changed. The beneficiary of a student visa would be sent home for a mandatory 2 years after they study. It would require special circumstances to be allowed to stay as this option is no longer on the table. Other options no longer on the table include marrying on a tourist visa and just staying and filing for AOS."

so, you know, maybe i'll get my foot sorted out here when i have to come back and spend another two fucking years here ;_; jesus fucking christ

OMG JERGINS WHATEVER OF COURSE WE HAVE PB YOU BIG PHAT LIAR

I WILL TAKE PHOTO OF MYSELF EATING PB ON TOAST AS PROOF

xpost Especially since, you know, all you need to do is eat one of the billion enriched foods out there to avoid it...

Sara, where do you rank the time i bit through my tongue on the scurvy fever continuum?

xpost I always used to eat peanut butter on toast as my late night snack.

RR, I am worried about your foot! And wtf with those laws?! FOR GOD'S SAKE

John, I'm pretty sure a lot more people bite through their tongues than get scurvy, so that goes lower.

SCURVY MAKES YOU SPECIAL

lol john had scurvy? I now know of two people who have had scurvy in america. did you perhaps acquire it by eating nothing but cheese pringles and drinking only tap water for a month?

I had shingles a few years ago

close. cap'n crunch and pepsi.

xpost i have never had shingles but hear that it SUCKS

Seriously, you guys, John is a walking encyclopedia of I Got This Weird Disease/ Had This Weird Accident

I'm not sure where to rank the incident with your chest/ribcage, however.

Tombot, I heard shingles SUCKS. It isn't very usual in someone as young as you are, either.

it is a kind of herpes, right?

no, it is a kind of chickenpox.

lolz at John and I both PHEARING TEH SHINGLES

yes, remy. It's secondary to having had chicken pox. The virus kind of goes on to live in your CNS forever. For some people, severe stress brings on shingles.

remy just accused my grandmother of having herpes ;_;

its ok shes dead now she won't mind so much

xpost To my understanding, you have to have had chicken pox first to get shingles.

One of the alleged benefits of chicken pox vaccinations is that you should not be getting shingles if you have never had chicken pox.

And yeah, chicken pox is a herpes virus. (With all apologies to John's grandma)

Wait... John has not had chicken pox.

A WINNER IS ME

shingles was a warning to me to stop working full time and going to two grad school courses a semester at night while shuttling back and forth between NYC and DC to maintain my long distance relationship. I did this for a year and a half.

i learned today that d.h. lawrence gave katherine mansfield the t.b. that killed her :(

yeah but john if you contract an infestion of varicella zoster as an adult your chances for nasty complications are higher plus it fucking suuuuuucks. happened to my aunt and to a friend of mine's now-ex-wife. Yurrrgh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Herpes ZOSTER

Tom... I'm glad that you're living more sanely now.

John, you're a medical anomaly in *so many* ways

are we still talking about breaking limbs? i've broken my arm and my leg in separate skiing accidents.