My trilogy on injury
Injury 1 Hockey

Innocently 'jogging' around a hockey pitch I stumbled over my own feet after scoring a goal, managed to go over on my ankle, but jogged it off. Then, as I wasn't really expecting the ball, heard a shout of "heads up!" which was silly coz the ball actually went along the floor and smashed into my ankle (somehow it got through the defence of my hockey shinpad with built in ankle protectors). Breaking it. Cue Hospital.

Injury 2 Inter-form Football, High School, Year 11.

Innocently being a goalkeeper, I was doing ok, the scores were 1-1 and we were against one of the better teams. They then got a penalty. Which I saved. With my right wrist that I flung out in some kind of self defence. It got a hair line fracture. It hurt. The plus side of this one was that when my arm was in a cast, people wanted to sign it. The best one being a girl from my form who wrote 'hope you have it off soon'. not sure if this was just out of sympathy though...

Injury 3 Some years later, still attempting 5 a side football.

Should've know better really, but I started off in goal, then moved out to roam around and look busy. With nobody around I controversially decided to change direction and run to where maybe the ball might be. I obviously didn't give myself much knowledge of this shocking tactic as the sudden movement caused me to pull a nerve in my lower spine.
What was more annoying as the game went on, was that my lift home carried on playing. For 40 more minutes. With me stood at the side like a boy that'd wet his pants in asda coz he'd lost his mum. He eventually got me into his car, then out of it and into A&E. Some very strong painkillers and lots of tutting from the nurses and doctors later and I was allowed home.

My at the time pregnant wife had to then take my shoes off for me as I couldn't bend down. She wasn't best pleased.

Hurray!
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 12:09, Reply)