How much do you know about the skeleton inside of you? We know bones are hard, but they take a lot of punishment, too, so about half of us break a bone at some time in our lives. But they can heal, and how they do it is much more complicated than just getting a cast and not putting weight on it for however long the doctor tells you . There's a lot going on inside that we can't see.
I have a friend currently recovering from a knee replacement, and this video helped me understand why she has so much inflammation and yet no infection. It's part of the healing process. I've also seen what a crushed hip can do to an older person, and that's why I take my calcium supplements and walk around the neighborhood every day. Take it from Dr. Skeleton.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
How a Broken Bone Heals
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A book I had when I was a little boy was about bones, and being aware of danger. Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's nephews, each made a bad mistake and broke a bone. One broke his tibia, one broke his fibula, and I forget the third one. Because of that book, all my life since then I have been extra careful not to pile up boxes and use them for a ladder. I've fallen off a few ladders in my time, but the only bone I ever broke was the bridge of my foot, in eighth grade. A half dozen of us were over by the school's water treatment yard, playing with a section of railroad track that the janitor had been dragging behind his truck on a chain to flatten the dirt playing field. A boy named Matt Hall, very strong, picked the end of it up in the air to waist height. I put my foot underneath it for a joke and looked away. /It bounced./ I sat down, silently wailing. Matt said I should get up and walk it off, it'd be fine, but no. It took a couple of months in a cast to fix it. One thing I learned because of that: When you go down steps using crutches, put the crutches down to the next lower step before stepping down, not the other way around. I did it the wrong way, getting off the school bus, and teeter-catapulted out and down to sprawl on the sidewalk.
Also: Skeleton, by Ray Bradbury (1961):
https://lecturia.org/en/short-stories/ray-bradbury-skeleton/24479/
No one ever forgets why they broke a bone. Thanks for the Ray Bradbury story!
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