Here’s a broken wrist story (no, not me)
In late 90’s I bowled in a very competitive ladies travel league. These are experienced, good bowlers - 160, 170, 180 averages. One morning gal bowling a few lanes over from my team had a freak occurrence.
She picked up the ball, got set and went into her approach to delivery as usual. But, at time of release at the foul line her fingers did not come out of the ball and she was carried forward onto the oiled part of the lane, fingers still in the ball. She fell — fingers had released from ball but had broken her wrist when she fell. She screamed but able to get up. But, remember she is now out about 8 feet or so from foul line onto the oiled part of the lane. She stands, unsteady, slips and goes down again — breaking the other wrist. She didn’t get up this time and ambulance called. All happened in about 10-15 seconds.
noooooo....2 broken wrists???? poor thing. horrible
Oh that’s the mother of all broken wrist stories! It does happen really fast. I was down in the snow and feeling sick before I understood what happened. Cool story.
bunster and petey, broken bones are no joke! Do get it set correctly. They can cause soooo much trouble if not! My younger friend (over 50) went ice skating with her niece. She also fell...... and ended up with 2 broken elbows! She could not do a single thing for herself for a while because she had both arms braced out in front of her. The silver lining was that her boyfriend lived with her to help her through this stage, and decided being with her permanently was a good thing. They got married last year.