This is one of the best injuries I ever received just for the simple fact that I had loads of attention from everyone. So here goes....
I was 10 years of age when I broke both my wrists. You might think thats nothing, but the way that it happened will maybe change your mind. It was the summer of 1989 and we were 3 weeks into the Summer holidays, and my friends, brothers and myself were having a crab apple fight in our local wood. The apples came from this really old rotten tree, and as we were young nothing really scared us that much. So we would climb it without thinking of the consequences at all. Anyway, I get chased up this tree by my brother, when all of a sudden I hear this creaking sound and my brother telling me watch out. Unfortunately, it was a bit too late and the branch I was on snapped :blink: .
In all, I fell around 15 feet, landing hands down, just ahead of the branch which landed on my lower back. At that time I passed out for a few seconds and then came around. The pain kicked in around 2 seconds later, and somehow I got up. I then had to walk to my house which was 100-150 yards away which took me about 5 minutes as I was crying
and walking like Alex Murphy out of Robocop when he had his hand blown off. When I eventually got to my house I realised that my parents were at a neighbours house I had just passed, so I had to trek over to my neighbours house.
I got there and blubbered that I wanted to speak to my mum, as I wanted to explain something to her. She was going " What happened" and I responded that I had fallen in stingy bushes so that my brother would'nt get into trouble. She then grabbed both my hands and slammed together, and started to rub them very vigourously saying that this would get the blood flowing. Needless to say I had to tell her the truth, as I was crying even harder after that
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We then go the hospital where my parents are told that I had broken both wrists and would have to spend the night in hospital, just for observational reasons. I had the casts on for the rest of the holidays, which ruined my trip to the beach as I had to stay out of the sea. And they were always itching as well :angry:.