Sounds like Marty gets the prize for having the most arduous trip home and the best attitude about it:
From Marty's email:
"What happened was that on Sunday I went to the Capuchin monastery in Antigua and I banged my left foot on a stair leaving me unable to walk without a tremendous amount of pain. A nice couple who couldn't speak English helped me by getting the police to take me to the hospital. Actually, the hospital experience was kind of interesting especially since I don't speak Spanish and they don't speak English. There were people with other patients in the ER who spoke enough English to convey the problem to the medical people. They took an X-ray (although I did have to point out the blood on the table from the previous patient to the tech). An orthopedic doctor read it and, fortunately, found another doctor who spoke English to tell me that it was broken and point out the break to me. Fortunately, by the time I got done there (about 4 hours after the incident), I was able to walk slowly without too much pain. I actually went on sightseeing for 2 more days in Antigua before I left as scheduled on Wed. I went to see my regular orthopedic doctor yesterday and he verified that I had broken my trochanter on the upper part of my left hip. He said it must have been weakened and it could have broken anywhere. Oh well, I'll have alot of time to work my movie about my trip to Guatemala."
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