Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BCFD 36 Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: I Fear 80 Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:17:50 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:17:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ac6ed7d086c48b94e56a3cc67eda76ce"; logging-data="1308399"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fp9niyQNGsO5J9RrlAyHH" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:lp1GK3aO97XKlW54uHbuhPKlf9g= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2506 On 5/28/24 13:38, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/27/2024 8:40 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote: >> On 06/05/2024 05:48, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 5/3/2024 11:06 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2 May 2024 23:49:46 -0500, Lynn McGuire >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Pearls Before Swine: I Fear 80 >>>>>     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/05/02 >>>>> >>>>> Me too.  Only 16 years away. >>>> >>>> 2 years here. >>>> >>>> But I've never broken my arm. Or warn a cast. Knock on wood. >>> >>> I broke my right humorous 3/4 inch above the elbow (edge of the >>> growth plate) when I was five.  Spent eight weeks in traction so they >>> did not have to pin it.  Never had a cast. >> >> Late news I think: it's "humerus". >> > > Thank you for those horrible pictures.  I already lived the experience, > I did not need to see those pictures.  I course I went and looked at > them like an idiot. > > Lynn > > I saw at least one closed humerus fracture when I was an EMT with BCFD. I don't need to see any others. Ick -- ---------------- Dave Scruggs Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired) Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired) Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)