FAMILY1 - Sports Injury
This is my story … and I’m sticking to it. Last January 15 th , during a period of intense sporting activity, I fell and broke my wrist; hence the title of this story. Okay, it didn’t happen during intense activity. In fact I was barely moving. I was at my YMCA gym. My Silver Sneaker class had just ended and I was putting my chair away, stacking it on other chairs, the whole chair tower rising from a small four-wheeled steel support frame used to move the chairs around. After placing my chair in the stack, I turned to leave and tripped and fell over another of those wheeled chair supports - this one empty of chairs. Stack of gym chairs. This is the beast I tripped over and fell on. So my “sports injury” was breaking both bones in my left wrist and dislocating my left pinkie finger. It took some time to realize that I probably had more than a sprained wrist. So Pat and I arrived at Tucson Medical Center’s Emergency Room a few hours later. Of course, t