05-08-2003, 05:02 PM
A few years ago the "cool" thing to do around my area was jump bicycles. Now frankly I've never jumped off anything more than perhaps a foot high, but my friends built a track with several big jumps about four feet high with gaps between the up and down ramp. I took one look at them and said there was no way I'm going off those but after seeing how easily they managed, I decided I would try one of the smaller ones. Do I even need to say what happened? Well I went to the doctors tha afternoon to have my arm checked out and I was told that I had a bruise only and nothing was broken and as soon as I felt able, I could reture to play baseball. Well I being so "tough" went back the next game, got a hit my first at bat, and had my hand stepped on by a 300 pound (literally) first base man while diving back to avoid being picked off. I was about 2 hours from home so we went o the local ER (my thumb was quite obviously broken in the biggest bone) and the doc x-rayed me and when he came back and told me the obvious, he also said, "by the way, have you recently injured your lower arm, because it appears to be broken as well."
go figure...
go figure...
"Once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there
you have been, and there you will
always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci
you will forever walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there
you have been, and there you will
always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci