Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 2005/11

From: Audrey Travis <clr91nt@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] playing music again after serious injury or NEEDLEs
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:17:47 -0500

Knew I needed armor, but had been doing so well, I thought I'd be
okay.... thanks for the lesson in reality!

Audrey
On 11-Nov-05, at 12:57 PM, rob wrote:

> 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.
>

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