So, how is everyone's skeleton faring?

I fractured my wrist three and a half years ago.

I found that out today, after finally getting an x-ray on it. Hence why I've decided to start this thread.

I'm sure that previous sentences has created a lot more questions than it answered, so I'll elaborate. Three and a half years ago when playing 5-a-side football, as a goalkeeper, I had a rather large player deliver a beastly shot in my direction. It was straight at my chest but my goalkeeping reflexes had me raise my hands to my chest anyway.

The ball caught me on the pinky side of my right hand and twisted it quite far back, further than I think it's meant to normally be able to go.

It was only a parry, so I proceeded to save another shot and caught a third one. I then, despite my team-mates looking concernedly at me (I'm not quite sure why, maybe my face contorted, or I involuntarily yelled, I don't remember), I waved away their worries and continued playing. This was early on the first half of a 40 minute game (5-a-side, yo). We went on to win 5-3, hell yeah. It's also really hard to keep a clean sheet in 5-a-side, so don't judge me -_-

So, anyway, by the time the game was finished and we had left the pitch. I noticed that my wrist was hurting a fudge-ton. I further noticed that I couldn't remove my glove straight away, as my wrist had swollen too much.

Now you have to bear in mind that I have sprained my wrists and ankles a number of times in my life, and an ankle not long before this event (nearly all of these sprains being sport related). They had also swelled up, although not quite as much as this. However, combined with a cavalier attitude, I rejected the offer of the Dad of one of my team-mates lift to the hospital and went home to have dinner.

My mum gave me a bandage for support, which stayed on for about a fortnight. She is in denial about the fact that she wouldn't have taken me to the hospital, even though evidence shows that to be the case. I reckon it's because, as I said, I was just thinking it was a bad sprain, and telling her as such. So on my fracture goes unnoticed.

Seven months on, around July of '10, my wrist is hurting every now and again through sudden wrist movements, or any heavy lifting or extended writing. I go to my local Doctor's Surgery to get it checked out. A GP there twisted my hand in four different directions, and then told me that it was probably just ligament damage and it would take about two years to heal. End of the story, ah well...

Or so I thought, until it has still been hurting now 3 years after that Doctor's visit, and at times was hurting more easily and more frequently than it had done before. So, I go to my own GP, last week, to get it checked out. He makes me perform about a dozen wristy movements this time, before actually finally saying that he could feel something wrong on the back of my wrist. He told me that he thought he could feel a Ganglion Cyst, which is a cyst that occurs when a joint has been damaged. He referred me for an x-ray and most likely further on to a surgeon to remove the cyst.

Well, I go to the hospital today to have an x-ray, and lo and behold, apparent to the X-ray jockeys (I'm not sure what to call them) after my first x-ray of four, my wrist had been fractured. I get dubious looks and incredulous tones from them as I tell them it happened over 3 and a half years ago. Meanwhile, I'm thinking, "Yes, but I went to a Doctor (admittedly later than I should have done) 3 years ago and got told basically to suck it up!"

Moral of the story: if s**t looks bad, physically speaking, go to the Doctor straight away. I admit, being English, I can do this on my gloriously free National Health Service, but your health is more important than money any day of the week. Except Thursdays. Then it's all about the money, yo.

Anyway, I have to call my Doctor again in this coming week and most likely get a referral to a surgeon. If that is the case, they'll have to rebreak my incorrectly healed wrist and realign the bones. Fun times.

...So yeah! What's everyone else's story (if you have one)?