I have been told so many funny (and outrageous) stories that I thought I would write down my favorites. I'm not sure if I can remember even one outing since I started wearing my contraption that a stranger didn't ask me, "What did you DO to your arm?" Many times, a simple reply of "I broke my arm very bad," is enough for me to move on. However, most if the time I get 20 questions and a story - and some of them are worth sharing!
At a Starbucks in Knoxville, TN this summer I heard from a mother of a college aged son that her boy once had a contraption just like mine. "What happened to him?" I asked. She replied, "Well, one night he had too much to drink and passed out on a lazy boy and when he woke up his wrist was paralyzed." I told her that in the medical world that was called 'Saturday Night Palsy." (as opposed to Radial Nerve Palsy following an injury) "Really?" This young man was very fortunate to have a full recovery in just 5 weeks.
On another afternoon I took my daughter to the bank to do some business and the young man who helped us kept staring at my arm, but didn't say a word. Finally, he blurted out "How did you hurt your nerves?" I was impressed! I asked him how he was familiar with this type of device and he said, "Well, it's kind of a funny story. In college I had a good friend who decided to prove to his suite mates that he was "really strong" so he put his hand in the blender and turned it on." Wow! Clearly he was neither stronger than the blades of a blender nor smarter than a box of rocks. WHO would do that????
Earlier this week I was at Best Buy at the customer service desk when I was asked what happened to my hand. I didn't even get my answer out when the young man told me that he had a friend once who had to wear something that just looked like mine after he was shot with a shotgun in the hand. OUCH! I responded by saying, "Well, mine was a very boring accident involving ... " Again, before I could finish my sentence I learned that he broke his leg a few years back and because of the cast on his leg he was forced to learn how to sleep in his back. Well, alrighty then - thanks for telling me!
Some of the stories sound like they should be in the running for a Darwin Award and make mine seem incredibly dull and boring!
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