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We were dispatched tonight to a local trailer park for an injured person. We show up to find a bunch of kids standing around a parked car. Our patient is sitting inside the car, with his feet on the pavement. Apparently, he saw the neighborhood kids out riding around on their bikes, "ramping" them, thought it looked like fun, got his bike out and decided to join them. He rode up and down the street a few times, then "ramped" his bike over one of those plastic ramps that is about 10" high across the top. He somehow lost his balance and fell off the ramp and his bicycle. He didn't appear to be seriously injured - had some bruising and a small abrasion to his right knee. He was, however, complaining of some left groin/hip pain so we transported him to the ER to get checked out.
Doesn't sound like much of a run does it? Well, now take into consideration that the patient is 70 years old. He proceeded to tell me how there were alot of "old people, just like me" that live in the trailer park. I had to tell him that I seriously doubt most of them were just like him - he was the first 70 year old I have ever run on that was injured because he tried to ramp his bike. I was promptly told not to say anything else because he was going to have to listen to his wife once he was back home.
The nurses at the ER were calling him Evil Kinevil as we were leaving.
Doesn't sound like much of a run does it? Well, now take into consideration that the patient is 70 years old. He proceeded to tell me how there were alot of "old people, just like me" that live in the trailer park. I had to tell him that I seriously doubt most of them were just like him - he was the first 70 year old I have ever run on that was injured because he tried to ramp his bike. I was promptly told not to say anything else because he was going to have to listen to his wife once he was back home.
The nurses at the ER were calling him Evil Kinevil as we were leaving.
