Breaking a leg

[Jim Page]

Dave, a couple of years ago, after a staff lunch, I tripped on a buckled pavement in downtown DC and that caused stress fractures in my left elbow, the edge of my left hand and just above my left thumb. There was no alcohol served at this lunch, may I say!

I not only went back to the office after the injury and finished the day, but had every intention to play guitar at a party after work. To see whether I could play after the injury, I tried some leads on my office guitar, and it was only then that I realized my left hand just wasn't working correctly.

A couple of my associates insisted that I go to GW Hospital and I ended up with my arm in a plaster-and-steel cast from my elbow to the tips of my fingers.

After that incident, I have often wondered whether Booth might not have incurred a stress fracture in his leap from the theater box, and then, when his horse stumbled, broken the fibula more completely along the path of the stress fracture.

--Jim