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Injuries? I'm lucky in my life- well, I wouldn't say LUCKY, I mean, I never got out enough to be injured along with the rest of 'em - that I've rarely ever gotten hurt(physically).

I guess the worst examples were both bone breaks. One was in my wrist; my right-hand wrist got a light fracture. It was my RIGHT HAND.My dominant hand. I couldn't write or draw for eight weeks, and my cast kept falling off.

The other time was when I broke my foot. I was on the bus, and we'd just arrived at the school. I was getting off the bus, when I paused at the front to grab the posterboard I'd left there. Some impatient brat behind me bumped me forward, as if I didn't know I was supposed to continue moving forward, and I stumbled, and stepped on my foot the wrong way- completely on its side at a weird angle. I broke the "pinky" toe bone in the metatursis(however that's spelled), which meant I couldn't walk for TEN weeks. I can't do crutches, and since the school wasn't exactly 100% wheelchair accessible, I had trouble there. All my classes were on the second floor.

In both instances, though, the break didn't hurt except for the few days after the actual break. It became much more of an inconvenience to stay off of the foot or work around the broken wrist than it was to deal with any kind of pain. Bleh.