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Injuries I Have Gained During the Past 48 Hours:
1) On Thursday, at recess, I was playing basketball. Knockout, to be specific. I aimed my ball, shot, and it bounced of the backboard. I ran backwards so that I would be able to catch it. I stuck my hands out to catch it and BANG! Sharp, lingering pain in my right ring finger. I went to the nurse to get ice. I went over to some of my friends who were talking on the field and showed them my finger. One of my friends, let's call her Olivia, pointed at my finger and said, "Uh, Rainbow? I think you should go back to the office..." I looked down and my finger was swelling madly. So I went back to the office, and the nurse wasn't there, but the school receptionist gave me a splint.
I got my finger x-rayed yesterday, and according to the doctor I have a tiny compression fracture. I also can barely bend my finger. It's not that hard to type, because I luckily picked the most useless finger to fracture! I can write, but messily. The real downside is that I had to go to my audition like this...and miss out on a few opportunities.
2) Yesterday, we had some guests over for dinner.
Now, picture this: There is a basketball hoop, and perpendicular to the hoop there is a compost enclosure. It is made of wood. I am standing next to the enclosure when suddenly a basketball hits my head and BANG! My head is forced onto the sharp edge of the enclosure. After the bleeding stopped and I took the icepack off my head, the cut was across my eyebrow. I might have a scar there forever.
Hopefully, it will heal.
Now, come one, come all to the pity circle! Share your coincedential tennis ball or baseball or mozzarella ball injury with us!
submitted by Over the Rainbow
(May 28, 2016 - 4:37 pm)
(May 28, 2016 - 4:37 pm)
Ooh, ouch. I hope you feel better soon OtR!
I don't really get that many injuries, but the other day in Seattle, there was a dome that spouted water in the middle of a huge bowl, and because I like to run, I started running up and down the sides of the bowl, with no shoes. Unfortunately, I wasn't looking where I was running and slipped in the water, on the concrete. My pants tore open on the knees, but I just kept running and didn't notice anything until I looked down and saw blood seeping through the holes of my jeans. Yeesh. They're ok now, but it still stings a little.
Again, hope you feel better Otr!
(May 30, 2016 - 3:51 pm)
I haven't had any severe injuries as far as I can remember, but I'm super clumsy. Here are some things that have either left scars or really hurt. (These things surprisingly aren't due to my clumsiness)
1. So here's a bit of background information. I'm very short. I just turned 12 and I'm only 4'8", so naturally, in 1st grade, I was tiny and couldn't reach the monkey bars on the school playground (even though I bumped my head on them a few weeks ago). My friend always had to lift me up whenever I wanted to go on the monkey bars so that I could reach them. One day, I was impatient and didn't want to wait for my friend to lift me up. So I jumped. And I landed flat on my back and started crying. I was scared to go to the nurse, but the teacher that came over to me made me go, and then my back hurt for the rest of the day.
2. Here's some more background information. I live in a town near the ocean, so there are a lot of beaches near my house. One of the ones we go to a lot has lots of pebbles and rocks, and then on one side there are some big rocks that are fun to play in. One day while my family was at that beach, I had been playing on the big rocks, and I decided I wanted to swim back to where we were sitting. However, MA beach water never gets very warm, and that day it was freezing. I decided to sit down and let a wave crash on top of me so that I would get used to the water temperature. What I forgot, was that even though I was sitting in the sand, there were tons of pebbles in the sand, and every time the water from the waves went back to the ocean, it carried the pebbles with it. So I sat down, a wave crashes on me, and next thing I know there is a large stream of rocks scraping against my knees. One of them got a sort of big scratch that started bleeding, so I kinda limped through the water all the way back to where I had originally been trying to go. Eventually I got the cut to stop bleeding, and a few days later the cut started turning nasty colors. And now, 2 or 3 years later there's a scar left on my knee.
More of the terrible stories of my life coming soon to a comment near you...
(May 30, 2016 - 5:42 pm)
Hi! I haven’t met you on the CB yet, but you seem to be a magnet for basketball/sports injuries, feel better soon!
Luckily, though I am a magnet for small injuries, I have never broken a bone, but some times I remember were:
When we went to a camp, we were hiking, and I saw a deer and bluejay! I ended up not looking where I was going and tripping over a big stone. I hit the deck, and ended up scraping my knees, my palms and the right side of my face. The stupid thing was, that I kept walking and my mom ended up telling me to take my sunglasses off (I didn’t have glasses then) and freaked out. Apparently they didn’t tell her? No clue.
Another time was at our (Darkking and I’s) 7th birthday party. I was running around in my gnome hat, (it was a fairy themed party and I was a gnome) I ended up tripping on a table. Hear me out, th table was one foot tall, and metal. It was small, and I was like, 4’6 at the time or somethin. I ended up scratching my eye, SAME PLACE AS THE LAST ONE WHICH JUST HEALED. That time I cried a lil, but we got cake, so it was good.
SCREE
(January 2, 2019 - 11:58 pm)