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Hospital visits

In my lifetime, I have visited the hospital on various occasions. Happy visits like the birth of my daughter and grandsons.

There also were visits that resulted from an accident of some kind and health issues for myself, family and friends. I have been very lucky that I have not had many visits for myself due to accidents.

I remember my wife fell off the boat and hit the dock with her leg. A couple of broken ribs and from a fall off a horse. My daughter in junior high school was bucked off Gus, her pleasure horse, and was stepped on – not much pleasure in that! We went to the emergency room as I was an overprotective dad. In the emergency room, the nurse checking us in was also an equestrian. She was happy to share that she had a metal plate in her skull, from being kicked by a horse, and a metal pin in her leg from a fracture falling off her horse.