June 11, 2005
My Daughter Thinks She's Kevin Brown
I was sitting down to watch the White Sox play the Padres on Friday night when my daughter comes home from a going away party. She walks in to the TV room with a bag of ice on her wrist. It turns out the young man who is going away is a wrestler and very muscular. While my daughter takes about 15 minutes to tell the story (she takes after my mother that way) what basically happened was that the wrestler didn't think Melinda could hurt him. So he told her to punch him in the upper arm.
Now my daughter never saw Bull Durham. If she had, she might have used her left hand. But no, she wound up and hit him as hard as she could with the right. Everyone heard a crack. The wrestler didn't feel a thing.
So she's feeling pretty stupid, but she doesn't think it's broken. I'm looking at her hand, and it doesn't look swollen at first, then I notice it's swollen underneath. So I rotate the wrist 90 degrees to look and she lets out a scream. At that point we head for the ER. Three hours later she's being wrapped in a cast above the elbow. She broke a small but very important bone in the wrist. Luckily, she's not in a lot of pain. It's going to be very interesting watching her ballet recital next week. I hope to have pictures later.
Update: Here's a picture of the cast. She wouldn't let me take a picture of all of her. Click on the photo for a larger image.

Posted by David Pinto at
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What kind of father are you? She's never seen Bull Durham?!?
Seriously, I once broke a small bone in my wrist playing tackle football with my younger brother. That was the most embarrassing injury of my life.
I hope she gets better soon!
Great story, too bad it happened to your daughter. Hope she gets better. And yes, sit that girl down in front of Bull Durham.
you tryin to say us grrrrrls take 100,000 words to tell a story when 7 would do????!!!!!
you guys so funny!!!
just imagine what would have happened if she used the fewest words to tell the story
melinda:
hi daddy! i hurt my wrist punching this guy
daddy (looking at his tiny Pweshus Baby Grrrrl): GAAAAAAACK
CHOOOOKKKKKKEEEE
ARRRRRGGGHHHHHH
gasp of horror/anger/outrage
I"LL KILL THE *($%#@!
THE *^*%$@#@! HURT MY BABY
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKK
splutter
melinda:
dadDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
he TOLD me to
daddy:
WHA?
GASP
CHOKE
you goin in a CONVENT
melinda:
daddYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
let me just explain...
daddy:
GACCCCCCCKKKKKK
my Little Grrrrl is fighting with a man
i KNEW i shouldn't have let you out the door
we calling the police
and the doctor
and i'm gonna find that &*$%@#! and
melinda:
PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE
DADDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
wait
i can explain
just let me tell you
so NOW you know why we bore yall men to tears for 15 minutes before we actually TELL you anything
ouch! i hope she gets well soon. my girlfriend is in a cast too. she slipped over on ice and broke her arm in two places. she has a full arm plaster cast