Date NIght

Chris and I went out for night on our own on Thursday. I chose the activity; skating! I haven't been skating in years and so have bee trying to convince people to go since I heard about this place in Taipei that has it.
When we got there, we first had to convince them that we didn't need helmets. "We're from Canada," I explained. She let us off the hook with the helmets, but we had to buy gloves. (probably to protect the ice). The skates we rented were the molded kind, like when we were little kids, and totally dull, but it was still so fun. There were lots of people there, of course, like everywhere in Taiwan. There were even real figure skaters, with coaches, practicing routines and jumps and spins. A foriegner was having a little kid hockey practice with a few little Chinese kids. I think little kids in sports equipment of any kind is so cute.
The night was super fun until I caught my pick and fell. Doh! I was totally seeing stars, the room was spinning, and my left arm hurt so bad. I could hardly move it, so we thought, oh great, its broken. I've never had a broken bone so I had no experience to compare it to, but I couldn't squeeze my hand closed, I couldn't put any weight on it, and I couldn't straighten it. So we skated a few more laps and then went to the hospital to get it checked. Unfortunately the doctor on duty didn't speak very much English, so after he looked at the X-ray and saw that it wasn't broken he didn't know what else to tell me. "Bruise," he said. "Contusion." Now, I like to think of myself as a patient person. Ok, thats not at all true, but I thought I was being patient through the whole experience. I gently corrected the doctor when he wrote 'fell down skiing', and the X-ray tech when he tried to take a picture of my wrist (because the doctor wrote down wrist instead of elbow...) and so when it came to the diagnosis I wanted a little more than 'Bruise." I mean, seriously, I couldn't move my arm!! They mostly kept wanting to work on the scrape on my right arm. They offered me a tetnus shot, ointment, to clean it, and I was like, "I can handle a little scrape. Its the ARM THAT I CAN'T MOVE that I am worried about." Anyway... It is getting a bit better today, I have a bit more range of motion and can support a bit of weight on it. Hopefully it gets better soon. And praise the Lord it is not broken!