well i hope everone is doing well and healing fast if your broke like i am! well my story is instering! it was about 4 or 4 30 on thanksgiving day! after we ate our dinner i mean right after katie and i hoped on the 4 wheelers and went for a ride! we put on our helments, gloves and boots. took off into the feild behinde the house. katie leftt frist and i follwed a few seconds later. i cought up to her and was in either the top of fourth or the bottom of fith i am not sure what one. the i decided to turn to my left and cut into a feild in the back. we have done this many many times. but this one time i hit a hole just big enough for my front tire to get stuck and bounce out ( like a pot hole for a car) when it came out i started to bounce from side to side luckly staying on atleast to tires the whole time. katie later told me that she thought i was going to flip and that my left leg (the good one now) was flinging around and at one point came up over my head. thats a long way up too i am a six foot one inch basketball player!but while that leg went up my right leg came down and went between the foot rest and the back brake. and since i was going so fast when i hit my leg it just snaped. i got the atv stoped and looked down to see if i was bleeding or hurt in any way i didnt feel it till after i saw it and then it was not bad. i looked back and saw katie siting on her four wheeler and she had a stuned look and you could tell though the helmanet. i waved for her to come down to me and then i told her to go get my mom and her dad and shge did. i noticed that my glove had burn marks on it so that told me that my hand had sliped off the bar and grabed th motor to keep myself on! while i was waiting for them to come i made good use of my helment and beat my head on the handle bars of the atv. i was upset at myself for breaking my leg. and i knew it was broken from the moment i saw it. my leg was straight and my foot was turned out to the right about 90 degrees. so i put it on the foot rest and turned it the corect way. by now my mom tommy( katie's dad) and nick (katie's brother) where with me. i surprised my mom by using words she didnt think i would ever use! luckly she was understanding and didnt wash out my mouth with soup! but i said i broke my leg and need to go to the hospatial. so tommy went and go tthe car (we found out that a honda accord can be used as a feild car!) and i told nick and katie to go get wood and somting to tie it with so i could brace my leg. my mom stayed with me and we kept each other calm! i was worried that she would freak but she didnt and i was proud of her! tommy got back with the car and nick and katie came with wood and towels. tommy and i braced my leg using the wood and towels and a coat we had in the car! then nick and tommy helped me to the car and i slid into the back seat. we where a small small town. but they had a hospital and that is where we went. we got to the er and the people were surprised to see us i think. by now it was coming to me what happen and what it all ment so i was a lil well not my normal nice self. and they brought a weel chair and wanted me to slide out and into the chair! i was no i cant do that. and the man asked me how i was going to get out of the car and i told him rather rudly to get a back board and slid eit under me and carry me out. thats is what we did. i pulled my self up and on the board the they carried me to a streacher and rolled me in. all the hospital could do for me was an x ray pain med (i was so glad to get that) and cut off my jeans! they had to move me to another hospital 30 mion away by amblance. and it took them like an hour or two to get it to me to move me. while we where waiting the doc came in and was making sure i was ok and he did somthing i dont rember what but i told him i dont mean to be an a** hole but this realy hurts and my mom looked at me and i said i was sorry and the doc gave me more med so it worked out for all of us mom didnt have to hear me conplain i was asleep and that made me and the doc happy! when the amblance did come and they where putting me in i got stuck!now this was the only time in the whole thing when i cried. i cried because it hit me there is nothing i can do and i am stuck going into an amblance. all the other times i could help and move (ie brace my leg into the car onto the back board and onto a bed) but now it was in the hands of two strangers. they final got me in and we left. i didnt have even close to enough pain med in me for that 30 min ride. i swear they hit every pot hole between stewart VA and Martensville VA but when we got to the other hospital i got more and stonger pain med that made me smile! they also took the back board out from under me after four hours on it. that is the most uncomferbale thing i have ever layed on! after a lil while i have no clue how long i saw they doc he was a nice guy and asked what happened and i told him and he decied that since i was coming home to southern nc he was just going to put it in a cast and let the docs here do the rest just because he was not going to do the follow ups. i remeber being rolled back to the or where he was going to set my my leg and i remeber talking to the nurses they where realy nice (in a grandma kind of way.) next thing i remeber is waking up in my room and talking to my mom. i asked her two of the most important questions a teenage boy can ask 1) is there any thing to eat and drink and 2) how and where can i go to the bathroom! both of which i regret doing now peeing in a bottle while laying in a bed is hard and no fun and takes some getting use to and eating hospital food i think we all know. the vending mechain was stocked with old food but i thank my mom so much for that honey bun it was a good way to wash away the taste of the med!the next morn i woke up and watched back to school and ate well picked at a breakfast from the hospital. saww the doc and he told me i could leave. so the pa s came and tought me how to use cruches and i left. we came home to nc and i slept. on the way home i called my basketball coach to tell that i was sorry about the tech i got on tue and that i would be out the rest of the season. he did not believe that i broke my leg it took a good two to three min to convince him i did. i had a lot of people come to vist me and it was nice to see them all! but that tue i went to a local doc and had to get new x rays and such. the doc in va lined up my bone very well. after about three weeks i went back and we saw that my bone sliped and was now half way off of where it was. i got a new still long cast puton. (it looked like cape hatteras light house) and five weeks in we saw a tiny new bone growth but not to much and now 1/23/05 we see no new bone and lil progress i got another new cast on the 1/18/05 and the doc move the bone again with ease so we are looking into a rod and a second opion. i will let you know how things go! dont breake a leg it hurts but always have fun
billy
(ps four wheelers are safe you just have to be carful. people want me to tell there kids how damgrous they are and such i tell them i have been riding for almost ten years and this is my frist real injury. so becarful and wear a helment they do work.)