A blogger friend of mine suggesting I choose this topic for the next blog I would write. I find it kind of a fascinating topic because it made me stop and think about the worst injury I have ever suffered.

 As a child, I sliced my right foot open on a piece of metal and bled like a stuck pig all over my folks' kitchen. That was fun. Then there was the time I caught a lawn dart...with my chin. One time, Mandy and I hit a deer at 70 MPH just south of Sioux City and the exploding air bag tore all the skin off my inner forearms (ouch).

 If I had to boil it down, I would have to say the worst injury I have ever suffered happening in about 1995. I was driving north on Highway 75 between Sioux City and Le Mars, Iowa. I was coming up behind a slow moving tractor and was getting ready to pass him. The next thing I know, my pass is interrupted by a white Monte Carlo which cuts me off on the road. I start cussing the guy when I quickly realize I am still accelerating to pass the tractor. That is, until the tractor stopped me when I slammed into the grain bin it was hauling behind it. I was in a Ford mini-station wagon. It was no match for the grain bin the tractor was hauling. It dinged up the car and me; the seat belt saved me from serious injury but it snapped my Sternum bone in the chest. Ow, it was so painful!

 I got the full treatment: ambulance with back board and an ambulance ride to St. Luke's Hospital in Sioux City. X-rays and medication and time off from work. Thankfully, the driver of the tractor wasn't injured in any way. Just me.

 I spent about the next four days at home, not moving much. In fact, I slept most of the time because of the pain killers. Every once in a while, I am reminded of that accident when I'm at home wrestling with the boys. One of them will put pressure on the center of my chest and I can still feel some pain from where that Sternum bone snapped. It is the only broken bone I've ever had and it took me hitting a tractor's grain bin to break it. I guess it's a testament to all the milk I drank growing up.

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