My brother loves hunting. This year, Corbin read several books and studied, studied, and studied. He bought new better hunting gear and researched where he should hunt this year. Unfortunatly, his hunting season only lasted from Friday to Monday! On Monday, he was hunting at a friend's house. Danny (one of Corbin's friends) was accompanying him. Next to a pond stood a tree and tied to the tree was a rope swing. Corbin looked at the swing and thought that it looked fun, but unsafe, as it looked like the handle had been shot by a gun. On further observation, however, he decieded to give it a try. It bore his weight, so deciding that actually swinging would be a lot more fun than being still, he stepped off and taking a running start, grabbed the handle of the rope swing and swung out. The next thing he knew was that he was lying on the ground, and having fallen about six feet through the air and digging a two inch dent in the dirt from his shoulder, was not feeling too good. Corbin jumped up, but hastily learning that he hurt, layed back down. He then had Danny try to lay his hurt arm across his stomach, so he could then try to get up, but that hurt too much. He had Danny try to hold his arm tight against his side, but that didn't work either. Danny called up at the house and learned that Dad had just pulled in. Dad drove down to the pond which is where the rope swing was. Once he got there, he pulled Corbin into a sitting postition, then up all the way. Danny drove the car back up to the house, while Corbin hanging on to Dad, made his painful, slow way up to the house. After sitting at the Wylie's for a while, Dad drove Corbin to a InstaCare center. The doctors there thought that it was dislocated and sent him to Sacred Heart. Once at Sacred Heart, Dad searched for where the emergency room was. After finally finding it, they sat down and waited for admission to see a doctor. Mom arrived at the doctor's office about 5 hours after the accident. Corbin was shaking from pain. Mom ordered some pain meds for him and Corbin soon began to feel a little better. After several x-rays, the doctors determined that it was broken and that he would need a surgery to put the bones in place. (The humerous bone had snapped up by the clavicle bone.) Dad, Mom, and Corbin got to bed at about 2:00, only to have to get up and be back at the doctor's by 7:00. Corbin had his surgery at 11:00 a.m. and has since been resting here at home with four pins sticking out of his arm- to keep the bone in place. We were hoping that we could get a lot of school done, but have put that ambition away for a couple weeks and are watching lots of movies and listening to tapes.