I’m beginning to think the day before Thanksgiving has some deeper meaning.
In 1958, I swallowed a quarter the day before Thanksgiving, requiring a hurried trip to Austin – we lived in Llano – to have currency removed.
It mostly spoiled my Aggie family’s Thanksgiving plans, with the A&M-Texas game on Turkey Day back then.
Not so much my older brother’s plans because he was a junior Aggie cadet and game attendance was mandatory.
He still came up to visit me after the Corps marched in downtown Austin as tradition has long required.
Alas, we lost that year as well.
OK, 66 years later on the day before Thanksgiving, I’m covering the Bay City - Calallen game in Converse (see Page 6).
At one point I got a little dizzy, and followed MaLinda’s advice over the phone to sit it out – the game that is.
But I was worried that I didn’t have enough game photos.
So, I got up and went to the sideline for more photos.
Bad choice even though I drew farther back from the field.
Within a short time, I noticed the Calallen plays were starting to come to Bay City’s side, which hadn’t seemed to be the case most of the game.
Anyway, a Calallen sweep drew close and closer and before I knew a player had collided with me knocking me hard to the track.
I know what happened thanks to a friend watching from the stands.
I received lots of help and inquiries and Dr. David MacLellan was asking me to determine what was still working on my body.
Everything was, except my right arm.
I couldn’t lift it.
A trip to Sugar Land the next morning confirmed my fears of a break.
I had broken the humerus bone just below its socket with the shoulder.
As I learned with leg break early this year, if just one part of your skeleton system is out of commission everything else is affected.
In this case, I been one-handed all of my typing and realizing up front and center how many keyboard things require two hands.
That’s especially true laying out newspaper pages and writing strange columns about strange lifetime anniversaries, now that I have a new one.
Oh, A&M lost this year too.
Not a favorable weekend it seems.
