Over the weekend a friend of mine took advantage of the glorious sunshine to take a hike with her boyfriend and four dogs in the beautiful ChesLen Preserve. Alas, about a quarter-mile in, she slipped while crossing a creek and broke her ankle. Thank goodness for cell phones! Her boyfriend phoned her parents, who arrived promptly from Cochranville. Her mother splinted the ankle, and her boyfriend and her father managed to carry her out to the road, setting her down several times. Her mother took charge of the dogs.
They headed to the ER at Chester County Hospital, where the doctor applied a temporary cast, and the next stop was the orthopaedist.
My friend is an English teacher, and I'm told she was due to start teaching "Hamlet" today. That's appropriate: didn't Ophelia have an unfortunate encounter with a body of water as well?
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