Turned into a Newt
I started the weekend of June 2-3, 2018 in a coma. Revived an hour later I then had a basilar skull fracture with “Battle’s Sign” (bruising of the mastoid bone behind the left ear) and a lumbar fracture. As Monty Python would say “She turned me into a newt … but I got better”. Undaunted and fully recovered, I then had a complete left femur fracture requiring a traction splint fashioned from an oar. The next day I had a left humerus…