Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2005/11

From: rob <roomberg@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] playing music again after serious injury or NEEDLEs
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:54:00 -0500

For those of you who may engage in sports ...or even ice skating...
consider wearing armer when you go play.
I was a snowboard instructor at age 35 until age 40 .
I wore the same armer as you would for roller blading, and more.
A helmet is not required for snowboarding at most ski resorts but you
will see many people wear helmets now that
Kennedy and Sonny Bonno bought the farm on a ski slope.

Wear a helmet, wrist guards, elbow guards ,knee pads and a hockey hip
checking pad that will protect your tail bone when you ski or skate
anywhere.
You make look like a space invader but you will get up and wall away
from all spiils...little and big.
Nothing sucks more than falling down on a ski slope and getting driven
to a hospital instead of getting back up and playing more on the snow. I
taught 500 lesson one winter and sent 5 people to the hospital.
6 if you include me.
I got run over by a novice skier.

I've had 14 kidney stones and had TOO MANY intravenous needles stuck
into the back of my hands and
all my tendons and small muscles seem to be all torn up now so if you
have a choice...and are awake when you go to the emergency room... if
you ever are being prepped for surgery and the nurse says she wants to
poke you in your
back of your hand, ask to get a needle into your forearm instead.
If she insists on using your wrist then get your doctor and ask him how
would he feel if his surgoen hands were
to become forever useless because of loss of critical control of tendons
from one IV needle ripping up a wrist.

Rob

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