Firstly, THANK YOU, Carugoman, for the sacrifices you and your fallen brothers have given to me and my children. If not for men and women like you, I shudder to think where we would be today.
When I was in 1st grade (about 100 years ago), I was trying to do a trick my little friend had shown me on the jungle gym. Can anybody explain to me why they used concrete on school playgrounds back then?? My face hurt for weeks after that!
Here's one way to fracture your arm that nobody's mentioned yet.......fall on your elbow after being launched during 'Butt Bombs'. Yep, Butt Bombs. One person lies on their back on the ground, second person sits on #1's feet, with #2's feet on #1's butt. Person #1 kicks person #2 off. I shot into the air like a rocketship. Landed in the ditch on my backside with my elbows down behind me. Shattered my left elbow and my wrist, fractured both bones in my lower arm, as well as the bone in the upper arm.
I was in a car accident when I was 5 months pregnant with DS #1. Thank God I was driving a '65 Plymouth Valiant or I wouldn't have him today! The guy made a left turn in front of me, and I couldn't do anything but hope we lived through it. Impact was so hard that it broke the seat loose from the frame of the car, my head hit the windshield, both knees broke through the metal dash, and I had a perfect imprint/bruise from the steering wheel all the way around my pregnant belly. VERY large steering wheels in those old cars. The bruise went under my belly and across my chest enough that it missed him entirely.
There have been countless others (Grace is NOT my middle name), but these are the main ones I remember.
My oldest DS is the only one of the kids who seems to have inherited my luck. Took a nice little stroll into the rain-swollen river without shoes on. Walked right into an old fire pit. Came out with a bone-deep laceration across the bottom of his foot requiring surgery to repair the major tendon, as well as amputating the pad of his big toe. After weeks of bandaging and clensing and IV antibiotics, the tissue grew back, and today you can barely tell anything different. Broke his wrist diving for a pop-fly (his glove caught the grass and stopped but his body didn't).
When I was in 1st grade (about 100 years ago), I was trying to do a trick my little friend had shown me on the jungle gym. Can anybody explain to me why they used concrete on school playgrounds back then?? My face hurt for weeks after that!
Here's one way to fracture your arm that nobody's mentioned yet.......fall on your elbow after being launched during 'Butt Bombs'. Yep, Butt Bombs. One person lies on their back on the ground, second person sits on #1's feet, with #2's feet on #1's butt. Person #1 kicks person #2 off. I shot into the air like a rocketship. Landed in the ditch on my backside with my elbows down behind me. Shattered my left elbow and my wrist, fractured both bones in my lower arm, as well as the bone in the upper arm.
I was in a car accident when I was 5 months pregnant with DS #1. Thank God I was driving a '65 Plymouth Valiant or I wouldn't have him today! The guy made a left turn in front of me, and I couldn't do anything but hope we lived through it. Impact was so hard that it broke the seat loose from the frame of the car, my head hit the windshield, both knees broke through the metal dash, and I had a perfect imprint/bruise from the steering wheel all the way around my pregnant belly. VERY large steering wheels in those old cars. The bruise went under my belly and across my chest enough that it missed him entirely.
There have been countless others (Grace is NOT my middle name), but these are the main ones I remember.
My oldest DS is the only one of the kids who seems to have inherited my luck. Took a nice little stroll into the rain-swollen river without shoes on. Walked right into an old fire pit. Came out with a bone-deep laceration across the bottom of his foot requiring surgery to repair the major tendon, as well as amputating the pad of his big toe. After weeks of bandaging and clensing and IV antibiotics, the tissue grew back, and today you can barely tell anything different. Broke his wrist diving for a pop-fly (his glove caught the grass and stopped but his body didn't).
