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My
introduction to the Lisfranc fracture
We started off down the
highway to Oshawa to watch our grandson play football. Not knowing what will happen in the
game. Will he be okay today? Will he get
hurt? Will they win?
The cell phone rang and my
wife answered the call. The conversation
went something like this… (from what I heard)… “We are on the #115 highway just
about to the 401…(long pause)… are they at the hospital yet? Sure we can turn around and be there in about
a half hour… sure we will go right now…(more pause…) Okay we will call you soon. Bye.”
By that time I had pulled over
on the highway shoulder and was waiting to hear how our grandson was doing. I
waited to hear which hospital we had to go to.
My wife looked at me and said,
“No football game today we are going back to Peterborough. They are taking Emma
(our granddaughter) to the hospital right now… she fell off a Zip Line and hurt
her foot or something…”
My heart stopped. I serve as an
On Call Chaplain at that hospital. I have attended way too many crisis calls
when something terrible happens. As I drove back to Peterborough the memories came
flooding back.
A zip line? Emma? A fall?
How? When? Why? It was a long half hour home.
In the Emerge waiting area Emma
saw Grandma and started to cry. Her foot was elevated with the shoe and sock
off. She needed Grandma big time at that
minute.
Her friend Serena and her mom
Laura were sitting with Emma trying to make her comfortable. Both were scared from what they witnessed
happening to Emma.
The zip line is a cable
stretched between two large trees. It
has a pulley on it with another cable hanging down attached to an old bicycle handle
bar. While sitting on a branch that Emma climbed up to… the idea was to hang on
tight and then zip out from one tree to the next.
Emma moved forward while
hanging on to the handle bars… but something happened when she left the branch…
the handle bars were loose… or they turned slightly… Emma lost her grip… or
something. She fell down about seven
feet landing awkwardly with her left foot taking the brunt of her weight…
before she rolled over.
After X-Rays were done they
told us that she has four broken bones in the foot.
It
is a Lisfranc fracture – four of
them in fact.
The Lisfranc
fracture is a fracture of the foot in which one or all of the metatarsals are
displaced from the tarsus. It is named after 18th- and
19th-century surgeon and gynecologist Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin.
Wikipedia
goes on to tell me that… quote…
“This type of injury classically occurred when a
horseman fell while riding, having trapped his foot in the stirrup or fallen
into a drain. At present, such an injury happens typically in activities such
as windsurfing (where participants' feet are in foot straps that pass over the
metatarsals), or when one steps into a hole and the foot twists heavily.
Falling from a height of two or three stories can also cause this fracture.
High intensity activities such as body movements in which a person leaps into
the air and then rotates one or more times while airborne. American football
players occasionally get this injury, such as Matt Schaub and Darren McFadden in 2011, often when they have their foot pointing down and
someone lands on their heel.”
Oh boy. They
have inherited their grandpa’s tendency to get hurt from doing too active a
sport or activity.
I love to do
stuff that is dangerous as well. Emma’s
wanted to try the zip line is just like me. That isn’t from one of her other
grandparents – only Grandpa Murray Lincoln.
If it looks like fun… I would/will try. And I often got hurt… in fact I hurt
all through my teenage years and into my twenties and thirties… in fact I am
hurting now!
I apologize
to the parents of my grandkids… I am completely responsible.
Emma… your
friend’s mom told me that the line was being taken down before you left for the
hospital. Serena’s dad was making sure
that no one else will get hurt.
Darn! That would have been so
much fun!
We are
praying for four bones to come together quickly and heal well. Emma will likely be running by the middle of
summer… !!!!
Did I ever
tell you the one about the time that I was…. Ouch! That really hurt! But I am running again… well walking now!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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