It should come as no surprise that, in the circus, sometimes people get hurt. Bumps, burns, and bruises happen every day. Usually multiple times. Then, of course, there are the kinds of injuries that result in missing performances.
It only took eight shows for us to reach that point.
In the opening moments of the first act of the second half, our slackline/trickline walker sprained his ankle. He managed to complete his act and, interestingly, thought it was the best one he'd done so far! Unfortunately the high of doing a great number was short lived as he was unable to do his act for the next two shows. An MRI later revealed that he completely broke one of his ligaments. While he can still work, he'll have to wear this crazy brace for the next five weeks.
We've all been working insanely hard. Hopefully this is just an isolated incident and not a preview of things to come as fatigue continues to accumulate.
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