You WERE lucky.  She could have hit your leg, driving the head of you=20
femur through your hip.  You could have hit the pavement, shattering=20
your kneecap and breaking your Tib/fib.  You could have slid 82 feet=20
down the road, taking all the skin and a lot of flesh off of your leg=20
from the knee to the Tib/fib break.  You could have spent 3 months on=20
your back, with stainless steel screws through your bones with weights=20
hanging from them.  Wet to dry dressings to remove the mud and leaves=20
and tar from the exposed flesh and bones.  Shock blocks and fracture=20
pans.  Catheters and IVs.

Kerry


IVP wrote:
>> No death is ever nice
>>    =20
>
> Not the one when you hear your friend's legs break and see him
> go head first into a pole. Then watch the life drain out of him in
> a hospital bed
>
> I'll never forgive the **** who thought it was 'cool fun' to throw
> his car around a corner. That could have been me a few years
> later. Some drunken woman who lost control speeding around a
> corner in the wet, hit my motorbike just behind my leg and then
> sideswiped the queue of cars behind me
>
> I just don't understand, really really really don't understand, how
> mis-using two tons of speeding metal is in any way funny
>  =20

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