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Price of Admission - $643.71

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Updated: Jan 9


As parents, we all have the desire to provide certain experiences for our children.  For years, I’ve made mental note that we haven’t yet taken Olivia to experience roller skating.  I kept telling myself that we should wait until she’s a little bit older.  Then recently as a family we stopped over at Play It Again Sports to check out some pickleball racquets.  While there, Olivia spotted some beautiful white roller skates and fell in love, claiming that she now wanted to take up roller skating.  My negotiation with her in return was that we should instead first go roller skating to see if she even likes it.  The next day we watched a quick YouTube video on how to successfully roller skate and we were all on our way to Sparkles, our local roller skating center. 


Upon check in we signed a waiver and got situated in our skate rentals.  It had been decades since I was on skates.  I wasn’t terrible, but nor was I great at skating when I was a kid. I was willing to give it a try in the name of family fun.  The three of us awkwardly made our way to the rink and began to navigate movement on wheels.  After a few slips in her skates, Olivia made the wise decision to use a mobility aide that was available to help her as she was learning.  The three of us continued to slowly make our way around the track.  I was halfway around and feeling nervous, but I was doing it! 


Look at me go!
Look at me go!

Then, without warning, my feet flew out from underneath me and I landed on my wrists and elbows.  I initially wasn’t sure what hurt more, my pride or my body.  I sat on the side while I recovered from the pain and shock.  But I didn’t want to give up just yet – I hadn’t even made a full lap yet!  Plus, I wanted to be a good role model for Olivia.  So up I got again as we all continued to make our way around.  I was making a few more successful laps with the family when again, out of nowhere, my feet flew out from underneath me.  This time I fell backwards onto my elbows.  I was in bad pain at that point.  A nice stranger helped me to my feet and I gently bee-lined it back to my shoes.  I was done with this experience.  My family concurred that they had enough as well and we all packed up and left.


The remainder of that evening left me in significant pain and a severe loss of use of bending by arms.  I ended up not being able to feed myself (I couldn’t bend my arm enough to get my hand to my mouth), nor could I change into my pajamas for bed.  My husband was a true hero in helping me (thank you Hun!).  I was hoping that a good night's sleep and continued ice packs would help, but the next morning I knew it was time to head to urgent care.  There I was tortured in trying to get my arms to position well for the xrays, which came back to confirm that one, possibly both elbows were fractured.  Wow, I thought, my first broken bone.  Out of concern for my health they placed me in double casts.  Good grief, how was I supposed to live my life with such reduced mobility? 


Double casts - not my finest moment!
Double casts - not my finest moment!

I was referred to an ortho doctor and thank God we found an office that had an appointment that afternoon.  After more torture in trying to position my arms for xrays the doctor was able to confirm that I had one fractured elbow and one elbow with a bad contusion (bruise).  But the good news was that I didn’t have to wear double casts – that I would heal just fine without them.  I left their office with a payment due of $643.71.  That was quite an expensive trip to the roller rink!


Day by day I’m feeling better and gaining more mobility in my arms.  But the lesson in all of this?  Sometimes the admission to certain life events cost way more than we imagined.  But God provides.  In fact, I’m grateful for the ultimate price He paid – He’s paid for my healing and for my salvation (yours too!).  That’s a lot to be grateful for everyday, but especially on days where I’m patiently waiting to continue to heal.  And as a family we can say that we made memories and we’ve experienced roller skating; we’ll stick to other activities that are less volatile.  😊


So, here’s to all of us parents who do what it takes to provide experiences for our children.  This one just cost a little more than I was anticipating!  😊

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