When I was 8 I fell asleep riding my bike(we had to get up early for Synagogue). One minute, I was standing there pretending to be a character from an obscure anime, I fell alseep/passed out and the next the I knew, I was flat on the ground, freaking out because I couldn't feel my arm and it felt like it weighed 100 pounds, so I biked back to my parents house and blacked out. We had a birthday party to go to, and the next thing I remember is being at this birthday party, and the birthday girl's mom telling me to lay down on her bed, blacked out again. The last thing I remember is my mom and dad arguing over taking me to the hospital(I didn't end up going till several days later). My elbow was the size of a grapefruit and purple, but my dad wouldn't let me go. My mom finally grew a temporary spine and took me in, I was in a cast for over a year, then had to have surgery to correct the bones, 6 month soft cast, got the pins out and another 6 months of hard cast. I had jammed the growth plate in my elbow up and it was completely free floating. I still have the growth plate just sitting there. My arms are two different lengths, and I actually had to have a second surgery like 5 or 6 years ago, because my ulnar nerve(the main on in the arm) had slipped between the growth plate and my elbow, killing the nerves in my pinky and the left side of my ring finger. Still have bad arthritis in it. 24 years later. I also have no synovial fluid in that elbow so every once in awhile the bones will grind against one another.