In Three's

Last month Matt's parents both had rotator cuff surgery on their right shoulders. Scott and Doug thought it was so funny that their grandparents would be having a surgery for a common baseball pitcher injury.

According to wikipedia:
A rotator cuff injury includes any type of irritation or damage to your rotator cuff muscles or tendons. Causes of a rotator cuff injury may include falling, lifting and repetitive arm activities — especially those done overhead, such as throwing a baseball or placing items on overhead shelves.

I'm not really sure how Bob & Donna injured themselves, but the boys couldn't resist putting together this picture.


I'm not really a superstitious person, but I've heard that tragedies happen in three's. So when my mother called to tell me about my father's mishap it made me wonder.....

My father was in his tractor busily working the farm when he spotted a prairie dog, a farmer's nemesis, and decided to take care of him. As he was negotiating the exit from his tractor cab while holding a loaded shotgun he somehow missed the bottom step and hit the ground landing on his shoulder.

For most of us the climax of the story would be at the point of the accident. But not for my father. Somehow he managed to stand after falling and use his remaining good arm and his shotgun to take care of the prairie dog. He then drove to his truck, changed vehicles and drove himself to the emergency room. In the ER he told the nurse what x-rays he needed and so carted himself off to the the radiology department. Unfortunately my brother wasn't working that day - he was off running another marathon - when the Physician's Assistant came in to see what was needed and saw that my dad was the patient he had him come in and read his own x-rays. Only my father can do it all.