My Crazy Summer Curse- part #1

Towards the end of my final year in middle school, I picked up a curse somewhere.  That was the year 2007, and for nearly four years I was the sorry victim of what I've decidedly dubbed the My Summer Curse.  The main features of this curse were that towards the beginning of summer, or the end of the current school year, I would suddenly somehow injure one of my legs.  It could be a sprain, fracture, or simply me over extending the joint in a particular direction.  No matter, something would always occur and ruin the beginning of my summer, and sometimes even its entirety.  The curse didn't end there though, just when I'd come rather close to being just about completely healed, near the end of the summer I would in some manner injure myself again.

One of my most vivid memories of My Summer Curse is that of the end of my final year in middle school.  My class was on the last day of a 3-day trip to Washington D.C., and as we were all waiting to depart that very morning, it so happened that there was a decently sized pot-hole in the most inconvenient place behind our coach bus.  Two chaperons that had already stepped in it had failed to mention its existence before I so conveniently stepped into it and twisted my left ankle.  Since we weren't in NY, an emergency room wasn't an option apparently, and since the coach bus driver wasn't being paid to sit around and watch an 8th grader while the rest of the grade wandered around D.C. taking in the sights, I had to walk on the thing for at least another 3 hours.

By the time we returned to NY and I got home, once I'd taken off my sneaker, I was able to take in quite the sight.  My ankle had swollen up to the size of a grapefruit.  No joke.  After we got my ankle checked out, we learned that I twisted my ankle to the point that I fractured a bone in my leg.  And me walking on it for a good few hours did not help the matter at all.  When I returned to school after the incident, my classmates couldn't comprehend how it could be so bad.  Some were in disbelief due to the fact that I had been walking a great deal after the fact on the trip.  I just smiled at them and told them that they should be happy it wasn't them.