A FATEFUL BIKE RIDE

HI..THANK YOU FOR READING....THIS HAPPENED IN 1947 AND IT WAS A SUNDAY.  I ZIPPED OUT DRIVE ON MY BIKE AND HEADED SOUTH TO THE ALLEY THAT RAN BEHIND A NUMBER OF SMALL BUSINESSES ON SAN FERNANDO ROAD.  ONE OF THESE WAS A SMALL MKT/FRUIT STAND.  THERE WAS A LOADING DOCK WITH A RAMP LEADING UP.  I RODE MY BIKE UP THE RAMP AND CIRCLED AROUND ON THE DOCK.  THEN, I APPROACHED THE RAMP JUST A LITTLE TOO FAST AND PLUNGED HEAD FIRST ONTO THE GROUND BELOW  (ABOUT A SIX FOOT FALL,,,HEAD FIRST)  A LADY HAPPENED TO BE LOOKING OUT HER WINDOW FROM A HOUSE ACROSS THE ALLEY AND WHEN I DID NOT GET UP, SHE CAME TO ME.  I REMEMBER COMING TO AND EVERYTHING WAS FUZZY AND SPINNING...I WAS OUT FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES.  THE FALL HAD BROKEN OFF SEVERAL UPPER FRONT TEETH AND MY UPPER LIP WAS LACERATED AND BLEEDING.  SHE MANAGED TO GET MY ADDRESS FROM ME AND SHE DROVE OVER AND TOLD MY FATHER, WHO THEN DROVE OVER TO ME.  THE NEXT THING I BARELY REMEMBER WAS HIS CARRYING ME INTO HOUSE AND PUTTING ME ON MY BED.  I WENT IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS.  A DR MADE A HOUSE CALL, AND I GUESS HE DID NOT THINK I NEEDED TO GO TO HOSPITAL.  I SPENT THE REST OF DAY AND NIGHT IN BED.  I LOOKED INTO MIRROR AND SAW A GHASTLY IMAGE,UPPER LIP SWOLLEN AND NO TEETH.  THROUGH ALL THIS I MET A WOMAN DENTIST AT THE NW CORNER OF GRANDVIEW AND GLENOAKS...DR MELKONIAN. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DARK HAIRED LADY.  AFTER LIP HAD RETURNED TO NORMAL, SHE MADE A REMOVABLE BRIDGE AND I WORE THAT FOR MANY YEARS, UNTIL I HAD A BETTER METAL ONE MADE.  ANOTHER EXAMPLE HOW EXPENSIVE KIDS CAN BE.  WOW, I OWE SOO MUCH TO MOM AND DAD.  WHEN I SEE THEM AGAIN IN HEAVEN, I AM GOING TO SPEND ETERNITY THANKING THEM FOR ALL THEY DID FOR ME.  I MISS THEM SO MUCH....THANKS FOR READING....AND WATCH WHERE YOU RIDE !!!  B.