The Incident

So the kids, all 14 of them, were quietly sitting on the driveway after helping to cleanup. And I thought I would take advantage of the lull to take a quick ride down the zip line. I had tried the day we arrived but only sat on the "bench" to ride down. My niece, Morgan, suggested holding onto the handles to go faster because then the weight is even on the wheels. So I climbed up the ladder to the grab on to the handles and took off.

Well this was not a well thought out plan. About have way down I realized I was going really fast. Faster than I anticipated. So I released my feet from the bench just incase I hit the tree which really would not have happened but hey. Then I hit the stopper really hard and lost my grip.

I flew off and now the rest is history. I was out for about a minute and when I finally came too I could not breathe, I finally caught my breathe rolled over and was helped to be made comfortable. The ambulance came pretty quick and off I went to the emergency room.

X-rays reveled that I broke my collar bone in three places. I need to wear a sling until I see the doctor and can have surgery. That's right surgery. On of my bones is poking up in the wrong direction.

I go to the doctor today, Tuesday, to see what they say. Should be fun. Hopefully they will do surgery before we leave because a 16 hour car ride with broken bones does not sound like fun.