_ Sporting one broken wrist

’D BEEN very careful, I'd warned all MY ~~ the fingers end and they did

friends, ‘‘do be careful”? Nee

‘‘do wear proper

‘boots,’’ ‘‘stick to the sunny side,’’ I said. And

then I sashayed out the back~ door,
boots, sporting patent leather slippers,

and

“went down like a felled tree

’ Head whacked the ice.
The egg has shrunk, but
don’t try patting. ‘I may be
permanently addled.-.
.. Backbone .. whacked © the
“ice,” ‘full “length. Buttocks
landed without bounce.
And the futile gesture by

my ‘left hand — take’ this.

was

cup from: me!

mocked’: when dragged out ”

| from:under’ me;’ looking like”
"one of those sea birds i in the

' Shetland Isles. 0 os
“So. niy~. wrist

-bécause I ‘surely ‘can’t pick
it:up.:And when people call
I... say «to. them ©

- careful. ra
-Bossy to the end.-

is broken
and .1- shuffle: about trying -
not: -to drop anything’

“do “be:

Eleanor

. THE VINTAGE YEARS :
“ing. Then. a friendly chap

with sturdy arms .and legs

‘took hold of my gurney and
"off we. went through halls

.and around, ‘corners.’ to ‘get

: It was: just a. trip. ‘to’ ‘the...

grocery store,-and ‘plans to’.
‘the giory-
of: the: sunshine. Instead we’

go. for. a: walk: i

emergency” ward. -Hips;. v
anklés, arms, stuff : ‘dangling.

everywhere -you ‘looked; and.’ m

all. the: owners ‘of: Same ‘be-

‘The’ full iL apredation of

your “predicament . has not

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“Guesi ‘Validation, con

‘comer’
Busted all Tight.

some ducky X-ray pictures. :

Back in my. blue-sheeted

I: got.) _ the word,

Darn.

_Up ‘to: this time nothing
‘hurt much, which surprised -

‘But the ‘cast :room”’

was: a different ' story. ° The

“doctor very forthcoming, he

‘alignment,
“pretty fancy. word for what

said © he’d: dhave to. get a:

the. ‘coming
“which: was a

nurse: ‘for

he had in. mind. Nurse got

- the: elbow and | doctor took

minus:

a determined tug-of-war,
all the time exhorting me to
relax!

Bit hard, when two
serious. people are at. log-
gerheads over - possession of
your arm.

But it worked, of course.
I did’ relax. every. few se-
conds; and all three of us
could hear. the’ faint. grin-
dings and poppings as the-
disturbed. parts

_ Wasn’t , half. as. ‘bad as its
anticipation.

Then. the casting, very

messy. There must be a bet- °|

‘ter way in the: works with
all the robots’ and: com-
puters around. But at this
point, on the third day, it’s
pristine. white. and acutely
cumbersome. -

There are ‘some: things

you cannot do, wearing one
of these rigid constructions. -

You positively cannot do up:
your brassiere. You cannot:
open a can’ of soup. You
cannot get. in and out of the.
bathtub which reduces. your:
- social : obligations,
" course. | ee
- You: cannot,. ‘by any.
stretch, put curlers ‘in your. .
hair.” 3 ;
I'll have a longer. list for”
you ina couple of weeks.

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