a story about my arm

     when i was a kid i was retarded.  we had this toy table and chair set in our bedroom.  so one night we decided it would be a good idea to jump back and forth between one of the chairs and the bed.  we did this several times.  at one point it was my turn to jump from the bed to the chair.  well...i slipped on the sheets, and my arm hit the edge of the chair as i fell.  i screamed.  i don't remember how much it hurt because i was 6 years old.  my parents came into the room, comforted me, and i went to bed.
     a few days later my school had a field day.  there were all sorts of things we could do.  one thing i chose to do was an obstacle course.  the only part of the course i remember was where we had to crawl through a tube thingy.  i got to that part, got down on my knees and started crawling.  once my left arm hit the ground i felt a deep burning pain.  this was the same arm that i had hit on the chair a few nights before.  i started crying and couldn't finish the obstacle course.  my teacher came up to me to find out what was wrong.  i told her i hurt my arm and she just had me sit out for the rest of the day.
     the next day, i went to the bathroom with a group of girls in my class.  as we were leaving the bathroom i tripped on a rug and landed on a ramp in the hallway.  this made my arm hurt even more.  i started crying.  the teacher called my mom.  my mom came and picked me up from school and she took me to the doctor.  the doctor took x-rays and we discovered that my arm was broken.  it probably had been broken since the night i fell on the chair.  so, they put on a cast.  the following day was the last day of school and i remember hiding under my desk because i was embarrassed that i had a cast.
     later that summer we were at a swimming party and i promised my mom that i would be careful and not get my cast wet if she would let me get into the pool.  she agreed.  five minutes later i fell in the water and my whole arm under water, soaking my cast.  and my cast smelled really bad the rest of the time i had it.
and there you go.