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If You Have Never Had Crutches

if you have never had crutches you do not know this but…. they hurt your underarms in the worst kind of way They are clumsy and difficult to use Sometimes they pop against a rock and you go down hard maybe harder than you did when you broke your leg and had to have crutches in the first place If you go to San Francisco and a homeless guy runs off with them you get to sit on a park bench hoping he will bring them back This happened to me, and I was there by myself Not a relative or a friend anywhere around it was horrible I frankly hope that crutches never come into my life again using them is not half as much fun as it looks like

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Date: 8/15/2023 1:46:00 PM
i've never had crutches, caren, but they don't look like that much fun to me. i hope i never need them, especially after dealing with my first ever broken arm. your story sounds awful...
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Ilene Bauer
Date: 8/17/2023 3:15:00 AM
I slipped on a wet concrete step covered with leaves and blossoms and went in the air and down on my butt. Guess I put out my arm to break the fall. I’ve been down those steps 1,000 times at least, but never fell before and I guess my old bones didn’t like it…
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/16/2023 10:38:00 PM
I am sorry about your arm Ilene. How did that happen?

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