Roller Skating Unprotected
As it happens, divine protection can play tricks on you. Naturally, you can't play tricks on it in return, but what you can do is require less statistically impossible miracles by not asking for trouble. I haven't put my roller skates on for four or five years now. Today I found them in storage and decided to take a leisurely trip. I was too lazy to find my old protective gear or purchase some new.
The third one's a charm
The first two falls were not serious at all and only emboldened me a bit. The third one happened right when I was crossing a busy highway exit and resulted in a
radius bone fracture. That's one of the two bones between your wrist and your elbow. Not the best bone to fracture for someone who lives on-line.
Thankfully, the plaster cast I got is largely typing-"compatible", and the nurse had nothing against it (I omitted the part where I spend ~14 hours a day by a keyboard). So this post is a result of my clumsy semi-close-to-touch-typing. And I thought I would have to learn one-handed Dvorak. However, I may well mess up my healing and get a more restrictive cast in a couple of weeks. But I hope everything goes right.
A first time for everything
I have never broken a single bone in my entire life. The last time I had some plaster on was in the eighties, when I had a minor bone crack. I was too little to remember it anyway. My "luck" so far has obviously correlated with my hypodynamic way of life (from six years on).
Anyway
Statistics persist that I should have been hit by at least couple of cars while I was trying to crawl to the sidewalk. I wasn't. I just changed into my sneakers and walked home, hoping I just stretched something and wondering why the stretch hurt so badly. At home my brother suggested walking me to the nearby clinic, and after listening to some "low salary" complaints by the X-ray operator lady, I was mercifully and promptly treated. Kudos to our free and increasingly caring (at least in Moscow), but underpaid health care. Heartily thanks to the fact that I'm alive, in one piece, on-line and typing away.