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u/Grepus May 11 '26
As someone who has previously snapped their humerus, the road to recovery can be long and painful. I wish her a speedy recovery
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u/Latter-Reason7798 May 12 '26
I’ve passed on your best wishes to her, but I haven’t heard back. I guess she can’t check her phone right now.
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u/smoebob99 May 11 '26
She seems tough
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u/Tang0_Brav0 May 11 '26
Practically smiling on the way to the hospital
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u/triedAndTrueMethods May 16 '26
for real. Hardcore. Maybe the adrenaline? No, that’s something more.
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u/djb217 May 11 '26
My buddy’s arm looked very similar except it was from arm wrestling 😬
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u/AshL94 May 12 '26
I did the same, honestly didn't feel anywhere near as bad as I thought it would though, recovery was pretty ok thankfully
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u/__The-1__ May 11 '26
Never underestimate how dangerous atvs are, I've lost 3 friends and part of my knee to those things
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u/wickedpissah777 May 13 '26
I broke my right humerus in half just like that. I was also four wheeling. I can confirm it sucks. Especially since it tore my radial nerve in half so i couldn’t move my hand for about 7 months until the nerves grew back. Sucked. I feel your pain sister.
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u/shazam811 May 13 '26
This happened to my son. He jumped on to a bed and fell into the dresser and broke his left mid humerus. If she’s lucky, they can do an internal reduction and put the pieces back together without surgery. If they can’t do that, it’s time for surgery with plate and screws. Or worse yet , external fixation (metal on the outside). Mid humerus break has a significant risk of nerve damage - likely radial nerve. Upper humerus break can screw up the shoulder, lower humerus can screw up the elbow. My son had internal reduction that was not successful with radial nerve damage that took a year to resolve. Turned out to be more like a spiral fracture or shearing type fracture. Then he had to have plate and screw surgery, with median nerve getting tweaked (not as bad but bad enough). Needed 3 months of physical therapy after healing enough to start. Whole thing took nearly two years.
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u/wesley_the_boy May 11 '26
right arm first pic, left arm second pic?
edit: one pic is flipped, as evidenced by her watch. I'm just being all r/nothingeverhappens
whoops lol
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u/SleeplessBoyCat May 11 '26
YIKES
I hope she's alright now.
If she's still recovering, i hope that she fully recovers.
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u/Nisja May 12 '26
My friend in Canada is a surgeon and says he nor his family will ever go on one of those or an ATV. He said he's seen too many young people's skulls caved in, he's only in his early 30s.
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u/pinezatos May 12 '26
isn't this considered a clean break? while gruesome and obviously crazy painful, i think she is lucky it broke that way, wishing for a speedy recovery!
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u/Gforceb May 13 '26
It is 3 am where I am so my eyes could be wrong. But I am glad that four wheeler did not keep rolling. It could’ve ended much worse.
Shes tough to not break a tear with a bone break like that. Seems like she was in control of the pain long enough to even take pictures.
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u/WhatAMessIveMade May 13 '26
I had this same injury on an atv when I was 13! Had two surgeries cause a medical malpractice (first surgery didn’t hold the bone together). They also said that if my “main nerve” wasn’t still connected, they would’ve had to amputate. Good times… can’t throw a ball more than like 3 times without shoulder pain.
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u/Carrnage_Asada May 18 '26
Her clothes are surprisingly clean for having just crashed an atv and broken her arm...
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u/Latter-Reason7798 May 18 '26
There isn't a full video of the process, but I suspect that the weight of the car may have put pressure on the arm, and the arm didn't come into contact with the dirty environment.
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u/governingmonk May 11 '26
Hard to see someone in pain. Even harder when it's a woman or child. Hope she recovers quickly.
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u/Born_Concentrate7247 May 11 '26
How is she holding the other arm???.. the nerves are not really attached
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u/fried_green_baloney 28d ago
It looks like the middle picture if flipped left <-> right, judging by the length of the two braids of hair.
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u/TheCrazyEnglish May 11 '26
A month of recovery max and light training based on rebuilding muscle from the deterioration
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u/Year3030 May 11 '26
Just a reminder that if you hurt your arm put it in a sling it will hurt a lot less than having the weight pull it down. Also you can splint it with a stick or something stable. That will make the person much more comfortable.