Ouch! I hate trolley (tram) tracks--I was thrown by them once, and ever since have taken great care to cross them at a very acute angle.
Hope your daughter recovers quickly and smoothly! Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 9/11/08, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: The PDML Bike Curse Continues > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 9:18 AM > Not me, but I wish it was. > > Yesterday my eldest (she's 26) was riding home from > school (she just > started an intense ASL Interpreter course at a local > college) when her > back wheel got caught in a streetcar track. She went down, > landed > awkwardly on her leg and fractured her tibia (shin bone) > just below > her patella (knee). It will require surgery (plates and > screws and > all that) and she's just kind of hanging around (as an > inpatient) > waiting for an operating room. Othopaedic surgeries are > done > mid-afternoon to about 11pm, but due to the > non-life-threatening > nature of her injury, she's not too high on the list it > seems; > hopefully in a day or two. > > She's heard different stories as to the timeframe for > convalescing, > anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months. > > Luckily she's young and in pretty good shape, so her > prognosis is > good. It could have been worse to be sure, and she's > taking it like a > trooper, but she's not too comfortable right now. > > I feel responsible, being a PDML member. Obviously the > PDML Bike > Curse is communicable (or perhaps genetic)... > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
