3 weeks ago My wife and I went to Mexico to camp with a bunch of friends in a beautiful Palm oasis with Hot Springs. This is our 4th year making this spring trek. It's not an easy place to get to, with 50 miles of increasingly bad dirt road, which keeps all but the hardy out.
Seems like there is an injury among the group of 400 people every time because it is a very rugged canyon. This year was my wife's turn. Late in the Day on Saturday she mis-stepped and fell off a small boulder and onto the ground. It was about a 4 foot fall and she got scraped up pretty good, but even worse, broke both the Radius and the Ulna at the right wrist.
Fortunately for us, we have medical people i the group and after I got her sitting up and started to assess her injuries, a doctor friend and an EMT both agreed we needed to splint her before moving her back to camp. I had tape, but no SAM so I built an improvised splint from native materials.
After we got her stabilized, we got her back to camp and another medical friend showed up with some pain killers.
The next day I got us all packed up and we bugged out at 1PM. The ride out through the rocks, 2 river crossings and then 30 miles of Washboard was not good for her, but we all breathed a sigh of relief when we hit pavement, and a bigger one when back in the US. Next stop, the ER where we found the extent of the injury. Turns out it was broke enough to require surgery, a plate and 6 pins...
She is one tough cookie!
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