Homer Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 yeah, that's my face. the red is my eyesocket, the green is my nose, and the yellow would be my teeth. the one on the right is just a mirror image since the film was taken on the opposite side. if you look at the right side of the film, you can see a couple of fractures in my nasal bones. you're looking from the side of my face, ear to ear. yes i'm multi-colored. i actually had a guy in my office with a very simliar injury to that guy in the post. i'm just glad that's not me. sucks. here's another one i got done a few years ago. very handsome indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braves9105 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I had the same question, whats the thing in the middle and to the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 what are you talking about? you'll need to point as to what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr33niL Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I kind of got what it was after about 2 minutes of staring at it. Did that hurt? Gah, looks like it would. I've never taken a baseball to the face before but had one take a wicked bounce and hit me on the forehead once. More embarrassing than anything else. In all my years of playing ball (probably 500 games) I only suffered a few sprained fingers and I pulled both my quads my senior year. Lucky I guess. I actually talked to that guy who obliterated his collar bone in the link I posted. He did it mountain biking. Something along the lines of hitting a drop off at speed and making a football tackle on a tree stump. Pretty horrific. He did it last August and only has about 90 degree movement of his arm. Zero overhead. Says the rehab is pretty painful. Seeming how I already have overhead movement, I don't feel quite so bad about my situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 actually the best part is that it didn't hurt at all. even while they were stitching me up. in fact i took the codine they prescribed just in case it'd hurt. but it just whooped me, so i threw away the bottle. the most painful part was sneezing for a week later. you're lucky to have full AROM. that guy isn't so fortunate. but hell, no pain no gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdoyle7798 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Raptor, I hope your buddy will be OK. Being from the area I know how good of a school Rolla is. I also recognzed the Meremac shirt, being a former SLCC student (Flo Valley AND Meremac). OK, now for my sports injury story. July 12, 1996, I'm playing hockey (for Raptor, at North County Rec on Redman road... :cool: ) and my teamate and I are on a two on one break toward the opposing net. My teammate ad the puck, and the defender went at him, so he passed to me. I rush in, shoot, goalie makes the stop. I'm still skating hard looking for a rebound, and went behind the net. Only problem was my teammate was doing the exact same thing. I see him at the last second and stick my leg out in front of me to stop (so you can picture it, a typical "hockey stop") and his leg hit low on my left leg. Since I was the one without the momentum now, you can see where this is heading. I hit the deck, and as I am falling, I heard some wierd noise, and it sounded like it was coming from inside me. After the collision, I take a second to assess myself, and decide "well, I don't feel too bad" went to get up. The moment I put weight on that leg, I collapsed back to the rink in extreme pain. My legs are out in front of me and notice that, while my right foot is pointing north, my left foot is pointing northwest. List of injuries: broken tibia requiring 4 screws at the break point, dislocated ankle, and two torn tendons (one completely off the bone which required the surgeon to drill a hole in one of my ankle bones and pull the tendon through and tie it off PLUS a screw to hold the ankle in place for 12 weeks untill the tendons healed.) Here is the kicker - after 12 weeks without walking, the doctor said I didn't need PT!!! Just range of motion exercises. I made up my own program (with the help of a friend of mine who was a PT student) and a few months later was back to normal, except for numbness in my "ring" toe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 actually the best part is that it didn't hurt at all. even while they were stitching me up. in fact i took the codine they prescribed just in case it'd hurt. but it just whooped me, so i threw away the bottle. the most painful part was sneezing for a week later. you're lucky to have full AROM. that guy isn't so fortunate. but hell, no pain no gain. Sorry Homer, I don't see the gain in football tackling a tree stump. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 good, then you pass the psychological exam :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 If we are on the topic of sports injuries I have suffered two that forced me to the hospital. I have broken countless fingers and toes, even ran the marathon with two broken toes, but there were two injuries I just couldn't tough out. In 6th grade I tried to block a kick in soccer and placed my knee cap in a guy's sternum. My bodie twisted and the knee cap did not. Dislocation station. It didn't hurt as much as feel awkward. I was holed up and unable to walk for a week, but after that I was good to brace it and walk eventually running within two weeks. I was lucky. The other made me fear for my life. I was running cross country my senior year and early in the summer practices before the season began I was charging through the woods doing one mile intervals. I was tangenting around a corner (i.e. cutting the corner as close as possible) and got my weight out over my balance point and fell. I threw out my hand to catrch myself and right where I fell laid a broken glass bottle. Yep I fell on the only shard of glass in the whole barren woodland. I looked down and nothing I went to stand up and finish and the guy behind me stops dead in his tracks and startss freaking out. In just a matter of seconds I was laying in a pool of blood. Th pain was just now coming along and it was coming from my wrist. Yep I slit my wrist a half mile deep in the woods with only a few teamates running through to help. I pulled off my shirt and created a tourniqutte and ran back to the start. The shirt was soaked in blood I could wring out the blood. Amazingly I beat the kid that found me bleeding and still ran sub 6 minutes on the mile. WE had all driven to the practice and my coach had to watch all the kids so he couldn't go to the hospital and I was captain and couldn't drive. This was pre-cellphone era, so one of my teamates drove me to the hospital. Needless to say the slice was bad and the t-**** tourniquette saved my life. Seven stitches closed it up and I went on to have a spectacular season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superciuc Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 If we are on the topic of sports injuries I have suffered two that forced me to the hospital. I have broken countless fingers and toes, even ran the marathon with two broken toes, but there were two injuries I just couldn't tough out. In 6th grade I tried to block a kick in soccer and placed my knee cap in a guy's sternum. My bodie twisted and the knee cap did not. Dislocation station. It didn't hurt as much as feel awkward. I was holed up and unable to walk for a week, but after that I was good to brace it and walk eventually running within two weeks. I was lucky. The other made me fear for my life. I was running cross country my senior year and early in the summer practices before the season began I was charging through the woods doing one mile intervals. I was tangenting around a corner (i.e. cutting the corner as close as possible) and got my weight out over my balance point and fell. I threw out my hand to catrch myself and right where I fell laid a broken glass bottle. Yep I fell on the only shard of glass in the whole barren woodland. I looked down and nothing I went to stand up and finish and the guy behind me stops dead in his tracks and startss freaking out. In just a matter of seconds I was laying in a pool of blood. Th pain was just now coming along and it was coming from my wrist. Yep I slit my wrist a half mile deep in the woods with only a few teamates running through to help. I pulled off my shirt and created a tourniqutte and ran back to the start. The shirt was soaked in blood I could wring out the blood. Amazingly I beat the kid that found me bleeding and still ran sub 6 minutes on the mile. WE had all driven to the practice and my coach had to watch all the kids so he couldn't go to the hospital and I was captain and couldn't drive. This was pre-cellphone era, so one of my teamates drove me to the hospital. Needless to say the slice was bad and the t-**** tourniquette saved my life. Seven stitches closed it up and I went on to have a spectacular season. Ouch. That is real bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 holy crap. that's pretty cool, but i can't believe you finished the race. now that's an adrenaline story if i ever heard it. so the guy didn't offer to carry you back i take it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Dude Pirate is a pirate, he backs down from no challenge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superciuc Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Dude Pirate is a pirate, he backs down from no challenge He didn't back down from modding phillly's stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 He didn't back down from modding phillly's stadium. Philadelphia's stadium was an abomination to EA's part because they don't know how to design quality stuff and leave the jobs to us. Anyway, *knock on wood* I haven't suffered any broken bones or anything major. Only a couple scrapes and scars on my knees from a childhood accident riding a bike down a hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 **** I wasn't dying out in the woods because I fell on glass. When I die in a forest it'll be because I fought a bear or a cougar or an elk and they won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinerschas2 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 nothing like dying with your boots on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdoyle7798 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 **** I wasn't dying out in the woods because I fell on glass. When I die in a forest it'll be because I fought a bear or a cougar or an elk and they won. A bear and a cougar I could see, because they might attack you first. But an elk? You'd have to pick that fight... :razz: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinerschas2 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 i can see it in the papers now. Man dies after being attacked by an elk. However friends that witnessed the fight said the man was actually the one who provoked the elk in the first place. Sources say that the man who would like to be identified as "pirate" had just completed an entire makeover of EA Sports pitiful version of Citizens Bank Park and he had to let off some steam. Witnesses said he was taunting the elk, then started charging at the elk and yelling obscenities. His last known words were "removable.o" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I once killed a grizzly bear with a loose-leaf notebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdoyle7798 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I once killed a grizzly bear with a loose-leaf notebook. Credit Bill Cosby's dad...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Credit Bill Cosby's dad...lol. Bingo! It is so awesome that you knew the quote. We just dated ourselves a bit, however. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdoyle7798 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 My dad has the Bill Cosby "Himself" DVD. We taped it off HBO when it first aired in '82 or so. The exact quote is " I asked my dad for a quarter for the school picnic, he told me how he killed a grizzly bear with his loose leaf notebook." For those who don't know, the bit is when he was a kid, whenever he would ask his dad for money, he would hear his dad's life story. But as a grandfather, his dad would offer his grandkids money. My favorite bit from that routine is the breakfast bit. Ok, hijack over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYM Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 His last known words were "removable.o" lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr33niL Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Changed the name of the thread to see if we can keep it running with stories. Since hurting myself, I find I am extremely interested in other peoples sports injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 wow so i got back only to see this title thinking that you guys had a busy night with a new topic. guess it's the same one, but since it's official, here's another one. it reminds a little of a Rookie of the Year moment, except that i never turned out to be carl lewis. so i was a sprinter/long jumper. ranked in the top five in the state in both at one time. i also played basketball. so i was kept busy year around for sports. during the winter time, i was playing basketball. went up for a rebound and came down on someone foot with my right foot. heard a loud pop and was in immediate pain. now normally i'd get up and walk it off, but once i tried there was no way for me to put any weight on it. this is when i realized i was in trouble. went to the doc and they x-rayed. sprain. surprise surprise. was told that i was on the verge of tearing every ligament in my ankle, but they managed to hang on for dear life. it was your typical severe inversion sprain. when i came to school the next day bandaged and on crutches, my track coach (who was also my history teacher) was like, "oh crap, this season's gonna be interesting". i was like, "thanks, i'm fine by the way." i hated being on crutches, let me tell ya. not only do your feet smell but the armpits start to burn from the chafing. in exactly two weeks, i was able to bear weight on it again, so got rid of the crutches like instructed. that very night, i'm climbing into bed and just so happened to catch the foot at the edge of the bed quickly pulling that ankle in the direction it didn't want to go. let me tell you, the re-injury is much more painful than the original injury. pretty stupid, but here i am back on crutches for another two weeks. by the time i'm off the crutches, my left calf is twice the size of my right. so here i am in the middle of basketball season having to rehab hoping to get back on the court at the very least. my track coach was resistant to the idea as he wanted me out for the track team again. well i managed to gain enough strength back to make it back for a few games left on the season, only to have track roll right around the corner. the rehab went great. i gained alot of strength back quick. it was probably the best thing that had happened to me. being right handed, i was left footed at jumping. the season before, i had hit a plateau on my long jump. couldn't figure it out, cuz i could jump straight up like a gazelle, but just wasn't happening near the end of the track season. this year comes around, and i suddenly can't jump of my left leg anymore. maybe it gained too much strength and i lost the coordination with it? who knows, but i suddenly found myself switching feet when i jumped. it was amazing, my first jump of the season, and i beat my PR by six inches. that's huge! seeing as normally, the start of the season is a little worse than the end of the last season. i think it was he rehab or something but i had huge gains during that offseason unlike any other time. i ended up breaking records with each successive meet that season. it was pretty cool...until of course i hurt my knee, which pretty much ruined my chances of ever running college. moral of the story: do your rehab!! and do it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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