This happened to me many years ago. You who are students out there, can still sympathize though. Enjoy the story!
This is Karolina Kurkova riding her bike. I'm sure I didn't look that pretty!
My husband and I were both graduate students and had four
young children at home. We were riding our bikes wherever we could to save
money and get through school as soon as possible.
One day rode my bike down a steep street, checking ahead and
seeing a green light. It looked like an easy crossing so I let the bike pick up
speed on the incline, as suddenly two female students stepped into the road
without checking for the go-ahead light for pedestrians, and without checking if
the road I was on was clear. I slammed onto the brakes, trying to avoid the
girls and managed to do so, but in the process I lost control of the bike and
slid to a hard crash. Stunned, I lay on the ground. Eventual the campus police
and the ambulance arrived. I assured the EMTs that I was fine, but they
insisted on checking me, found I had broken part of my front tooth, and had an
either sprained or broken wrist.
The police had alerted my husband, and he arrived before the
EMTs could take me to the hospital. My husband assured them he’d take me to the
campus doctor right away, so we wouldn’t have to pay the extra money for the
ambulance. The doctor X-rayed my wrist and told me the small bone was broken,
and he couldn’t do anything for me, but would refer me to a specialist.
We knew this would be costly, but we really didn’t have a
choice, so we went to see the specialist. Eventually, we would also have to fix
my tooth, since I was a teaching assistant, and didn’t think I should teach
undergrad classes with a missing tooth. I felt better after we talked it over
in the car on our way to the specialist and decided to use our meager savings.
The new doctor looked at the X-ray we had taken with us,
shook his head and said, “This is a bad break. You need to have a metal pin to
keep the two parts of the bone together until they knit.”
Check in tomorrow for the ending!
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