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Mon Jun 6, 2016, 05:56 PM Jun 2016

Tragedy or Comedy

06/06/2016 04:31 pm ET | Updated 42 minutes ago
Karl Wilder

I spent a year first in a cast then crutches and finally a special boot, then I had to do it all over again.

Three days after my first surgery I returned to the gym. I hobbled around, with a knee carefully placed on a bench I would load weights. I could not do squats, but I perfected the one leg push up All was well until I tried to get my pants back on. I had one pair of athletic trousers with a zippers up the side, I got the one leg through and then holding my leg in the air I attempted to push my cast leg through. I heard a voice ask me if I needed help and I insisted I was fine and then a pair of hands appeared in my field of vision. The leg was freed from the trouser trap and I could go out in public fully dressed.

The voice belonged to David Wichs who became my new gym buddy. Every time he saw me, he helped. He got me weights, picked up fallen crutches and we began to get to know each other.

He was an observant Jew, and I am an observant Atheist.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-wilder/tragedy-or-comedy_b_10321078.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/nyregion/man-killed-in-crane-collapse-is-remembered-as-a-supreme-mensch.html?_r=0

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