Unlikely Stories

A middle-aged, never married man was brought to ER with two fractured shoulders. He claimed that he fell while roller blading. The problem is that there was no road rash, cuts, scrapes or bruises to his hands, face or any other part of his body. If he fell forward, there should have been injuries to his hands or face. If he fell sideways, then only one shoulder would have been broken. The surgeon thinks that he was injured during gay sex. This makes no sense to me, but apparently the surgeon knows more about these things than I do.

We also had a girl in her late teens who was brought in with a broken jaw. She said that someone slugged her, but she doesn't know who. I guess it's possible that some stranger jumped out at her, broke her jaw and ran off, but why? We think that she's protecting somebody. On the other hand, maybe she is telling the truth. When I was going through my divorce, one of my dogs broke my nose. Everyone was convinced that my husband did it and there was nothing that I could say that would convince people to the contrary. Sometimes the truth is the strangest explanation.