Yesterday I heard the most remarkable tale about a most unlucky lady who somehow managed the incredibly amazing feat of breaking BOTH of her elbows simultaneously in a fall. I was at a prayer meeting at church when the news of her most unfortunate accident came up. And naturally, as good Baptists love to do, we all marveled and gasped at just how anyone could have accomplished such a feat of clutziness. This ol’ gal is about my mother’s age and, I kid you not, had just left the hospital for another procedure and had gotten home only to wind up right back in that butcher shop for round two. I hope they managed to change the sheets before she came back.
I’m certainly not a doctor but my curiosity begs to know just how can someone break their elbows since elbows are joints rather than solid bone? Ignoramus that I am what I’m guessing happened was what she actually broke was the elbow end of her humurus bone and maybe also the adjacent portion of the bones of her forearms too. Which is bound to make for some fretful work for any doctor tasked with the job of fixing that boo-boo up. I’d love to know how she pulled that humdinger off since no one seemed to know the details of precisely how she managed injuring herself in such an uncommon fashion. One broken elbow would be sufficiently curious in its own right but breaking both??? There’s bound to be a story behind that I’m sure. Maybe she landed on both of her elbows somehow. But then how would you do that unless you had your feet totally swept out from under you? Or maybe she fell on her hands with both of her arms locked and braced for impact and the force was just too much for those ol’ elbows to handle? Whatever feat of loony gymnastics she did, it’s a terrible way to finish the holidays having both of your arms immobolized in casts and out of commission. Frankly I’ve no idea how she’s going to manage feeding and dressing herself, not to mention the other essential duties of living. I pity her but I think she’ll manage. Let’s hope she isn’t accident prone and doesn’t manage to break her knees too.
