We got called out to the back yard of a house near our station. The house had a swimming pool in the back and a handful of young teens were home alone and messing around in the pool. When you’re a teenage boy, almost any idea sounds like a good idea and anything is possible. Today, the idea was - “who can jump all the way across the pool?”. Our first contestant is 15 year old Jeremy, let’s see how he does.
Ohhhh, sorry Jeremy, so close.
Our patient had leapt across the pool, landing straight legged on the lip of the other side. He had a huge avulsion on his heel and had fractured his femur.
Fortunately he was able to pull himself out of the pool after falling back in. He held it together pretty well too, even when we applied the traction splint to pull the overlapping bone ends back into alignment.
The ironic part of the whole story was that he was all set to start his summer job in about two weeks - as a lifeguard.
I love irony...at least when it's happening to other people.
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