Web MD

Long-time visitors to LWMO will likely remember this... my bout with a Boxer's Fracture.

There is no scientific proof to back this up, but I believe it to be a fan favorite, and through the mighty pain killers I was taking to dull my extreme suffering at the time, I remember it fondly too.

While I'm glad it entertained, I really had no expectations that it would also educate. Even comfort. But, apparently it has.

How do I know? Well, as part of hosting this site, I can see how many visitors come to read about Mr. O, and while I don't get names and addresses of visitors, I can see which website, if any, directed them to the site.

Let me explain. When the good people at RightMichigan.com link to something on LWMO, for example, any time a visitor goes to RightMichigan and then clicks on the link to LWMO, I can see that their "Entry Page" was RightMichigan.com.

Likewise, when someone finds Mr. O and his dad's busted up hand, I can see that their entry page very often was a Google Image search for a "Boxer's Fracture."

Why is this interesting? Well, maybe it's not, but I do not lie when I report that at least once daily a poor soul with a throbbing hand and bruised psyche uses Google and lands on LWMO in search of information about a Boxer's Fracture.

Here I thought the mission of LWMO was to post pictures of a little boy and pontificate about politics. Now, I feel the need to raise my good hand and repeat the Hippocratic oath.

At the time of my injury, my search for sympathy and compassion was long-suffering. If now, LWMO can become a sanctuary for Boxer's Fracture sufferers everywhere, then clearly some good will have come from my pain.