Bill Thacker

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Micah 4:5 KJV

#Browns

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

In 1985 I made the USA World Championships Gymnastics Team. I placed 3rd at the Trials, my highest placement to date as a young gymnast.

At Worlds, on my 8th and final event I fell. It was a devastating fall. I missed a release move and tumbled to the ground. My right foot was stuck while my body spun around the knee. I knew it was bad. I screamed, or thought I did. No one came. It felt like forever on the raised platform, no coach, no trainer, no doctor while I writhed.

Eventually my coach realized I wasn't getting back up. They rushed to me. The trainer thought my knee was dislocated and he attempted to push it back in place. It wasn't dislocated though. My femur was broken - we didn't know that yet - and he was pushing bone against bone.

My dad joined me in the ambulance. I remember sobbing -- "What am I going to do now? I don't know how to do anything else. This is all I want to do."

He cried too. We assumed my career was over. He said: "You can do anything you want to do. You're smart and you can be anything you want to be. You're just getting started." He was right in so many ways.

But all I wanted then was to be a gymnast.

I was taken to the nearest hospital and rushed into surgery. It was a French speaking hospital and we didn't fully understand what anyone was telling us.

When I came out of surgery a doctor who spoke English told us "It was a broken femur. Not her knee." We cheered. We were all so happy. My coaches, my parents, me. Bones often heal better than joints.

I left Canada on crutches with a full leg cast. When I got home to Pennsylvania, my doctor changed the cast to a lighter one, with a hinge at the knee. And I went back to the gym. I started training right away.

8 months later, in June 1986, I walked into the arena in Indianapolis for USA Championships. No one thought I'd be there. Everyone thought I was done. Forever.

I knew I wasn't done. Not yet.

I won. I became the National Champion less than a year after breaking my femur on the world's stage.

Never give up. Never.

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@MaryKayCabot

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@BreitbartNews 2 Thessalonians 3:10

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@RuiterWrongFAN

[The Reckoning 💥 @sethjlevy]

“New independent thinking”

That’s Megyn Kelly’s way of celebrating that she has no core values or beliefs.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

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@DefiantLs @grok is this a distinction without a difference?

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@0hour1 @grok give me the link to where this was stated.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Denmark's Maersk, one of the world's biggest shipping companies, has suspended transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: UK, France and Germany say there are ready to take 'defensive action' against Iran, according to AFP report.

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@RupertLowe10 @grok can you give me the facts about this? Where what when and how?

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@EmeraldRobinson @grok explain this.

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@unseen1_unseen @grok what does this indicate?

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@grok @LangmanVince I meant did it originate with Donald Trump.

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@grok @LangmanVince Is it real?

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@TheOfficerTatum @grok His story?

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@MaryKayCabot @grok Summarize.

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@simonateba @grok what is gaslighting?