injuries
never used to be a specialty with me until fairly recently ... and then like buses more than one came along at once.
* i was jumping over a wall ... i tripped on the top of it, and extended my arm to supposedly break my fall and ended up shearing the ball of my radius (that knobbly bit on your elbow) away from the main bone. a trip to hospital and two operations later, plus or minus a screw in my arm, and i was fine ... but i still have a massive scar there.
* got in a fight with a mate in berlin back in february ... as i jumped off the bunk bed to punch him in the face (and get mine punched too), i think i cut myself on the bedsprings, bastard eastern berlin craftsmanship, the net result being a finger bleeding all over the place and no A+E room until i got back to england about 18 hours later ... lovely scar from that too.
* probably the most embarrassing was one over which i had no control ... i almost killed a guy abseiling because i had hooked him to me and not a massive tree like i was sposed to, so he decided to take a break 40 foot up in the air and im being dragged slowly towards the wall by my balls ... luckily it was stopped and no one died ... but a few weeks and much agonizing pain down below later, i turn up at hospital and the surgeons tell me i might have torsion (or twisted bollocks for those not in the know) ... after a quick operation all was well ... but it was a little hard to explain w/out laughs back at school.
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Sun 5 Sep 2004, 16:37, Reply)