Newton´s FIBULA

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Oh boy,

darn.

That´s a bummer man, that´s a... bummer. (From The Big Lebowsky)

And us Nordic people were thinking about asking you to come over here.
You will have healed in May (that´s when we´re expecting you)
We command you to take a trip then to recover mentally.


I think you can enjoy these.
www.straightdope.com
www.dullmen.com

Oh, you don´t have a phone line SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING! PUT THIS GUY OUT OF 
HIS MISERY!

No honestly, heal quickly Newton, buy a better microwave and make use of it.

Kristinn

  P.S. They can take away your kidney, they can away your spleen, but they 
CANNOT TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM!


At 13:58 30.10.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>I have done it again, gotten myself into a nice pickle.
>
>Yesterday, Saturday, a little after 2:00 I was walking home,
>hurrying because I needed to visit the boy's room, when a
>car whipped around making a left hand turn and preceded to
>break my left leg and bruise my tailbone and small of my
>back.
>
>I was taken to the hospital by our local volunteer EMS crew
>and I want to tell you that a ride in a ambulance is to
>fun.  I HATE not being able to see where I am going and have
>no control over my body, strapped in and all.  Those neck
>braces _work_, you can only see where you balls roll.
>
>X-rays showed a crack in the bone behind the tibia (forget
>the name right now).  They put a brace on my leg and told me
>not to put any pressure one it.  Yeah right!
>
>I have Fibromyalgia and have lost enough upper torso
>strength that I can no longer lift my own weight to use
>crutches easily so they gave me a walker.  I have a hard
>time with that as well.
>
>So here I am, bed bound, alone, with an occasional friend to
>drop by and give me a few scraps of food and fetch and carry
>for me.  Nothing to do but sleep, take drugs, read and play
>with my laptop.  I don't have a phone line in here so
>somehow I have to get to the office to send this and get the
>rest of the messages.  Monday I will try to find a source of
>a daily helping hand, I hope.  It will be about three or
>four days before I can regain good control of my body to be
>able to get around well enough to cook for myself,
>hopefully.
>
>So, this guy hits me, a little after 2:00 pm on a beautiful
>day while I was in the cross walk and had the light with
>me.  As far as I am concerned, no excuse and I think my
>lawyer is likely to take a dim view of this behavior as
>well.  And I am a blind man as well.  Wonder what my lawyer
>will make of that?
>
>I am so grateful I am alive and no more injured than I am
>but this comes at a real inconvenient time.  Hmm, what
>accident does?  I have to cancel my class tomorrow, cancel a
>repair on Tuesday, not hang the ceiling fan, not work on the
>piano, not paint the bedroom walls and not do other
>interesting things.
>
>I had real quick action because the police, fire and EMS
>stations are just three blocks down the street from where I
>was lying in the street telling the driver who asked, "Are
>you ok?:  I said, "no I'm not"  he called 911 on his cell
>phone since I could not find mine.
>
>Six and a half hours later I am at home in bed with a
>wonderful bowl of Minestrone my former wife brought with her
>when she picked me up at the hospital.
>
>They do not feed you in the ER and they wait forever before
>giving you any pain medication.
>
>Lesson, don't walk cross the street and don't go to the ER
>if you do.
>
>You can get hit, starved, tortured, ignored and they'll take
>your pants off.
>
>Hope everyone else has a good week.
>
>                 Newton (hobbled and caged)