Useless Personal Trivia

[rusty_armour]

Twenty-five years ago today, I broke my leg skating. As the event was kind of traumatic, the date has remained lodged in my brain. Once my leg healed, I did go skating again, but only once because I was so afraid of falling that I didn't derive much pleasure from it. I tripped this morning on the way to work, but I didn't fall or so much as bruise my leg. I hope this positive trend continues.

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[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I have absolutely nothing to complain about! While I thought the skate blade had cut into my leg when I broke it (because of the sharp pain), I never received that kind of injury on the ice. I've also been fortunate enough never to develop a bone tumour or sustain a concussion.

The sad thing is that I was never in figure skating. I was just skating for fun in my parents' backyard. And, like you and your concussion, I was just skating straight and simple up a slight incline. Next thing I knew, I was down and my leg was broken. On another ironic note, I had a compound spiral fracture, which is usually a skiier's injury. My entire leg was encased in a plaster cast for nine weeks. During that period of time I discovered soap operas and ate entirely too much chocolate. *g*

[njc2007.livejournal.com]

There is absolutely no such thing as eating too much chocolate.

My sister was less lucky. She stepped off a bus and broke her leg in three or four (I can't remember) places. She was in a full-leg cast with two little kids and a husband who was away on business for several months. I moved in to help. I think I was 17 or 18. On a positive note, that was enough to convince me not to have kids of my own. lol

Oh, and she fell down the stairs at my Mom's last year and had to have multiple surgeries to fix that break. She is the major klutz in the family. I'm just the minor one.

My injuries sound worse than they were. The concussion was just a nasty headache that lasted for days so it was barely different from my regular life. The two skate cuts were joined a few months later by sitting on a steak knife and having to endure all kinds of jokes about rump roasts. lol