In an ignominious ending to an expensive season, yesterday I played my last soccer game for the fall. Having started the season with a broken tibia ["slightly broken"], I decided to go out in style. My hope for another trip to the ER was realized with a nice head butt to the nose from one of my own players.
Seems that we were both involved in the play when he, frustrated about life and $3 gas, turned and grabbed my shoulders for a full force WWE smackdown head butt to my nose. Actually that didn't happen and it wasn't that clear what did, other than I was running and he turned suddenly and knocked me cleanly to the ground. Great hit-wish he had gotten someone else.
The nose can bleed a lot; it looked like a red fountain. After some nice moments of concern and help from my teammates, including a lot of gauze from people's 1st aid packs, I decided to head to the ER.
Diagnosis: Broken nose. I've got an appointment coming up to 'manipulate' it back into place [nice verb they use in that field]. Until then I'll ramble on and hope that nothing else will happen.
This has been the most expensive season I've ever played of soccer, with one major and one minor injury. I've had 2 trips to the ER in the past 7 years of playing soccer here in Cville; unfortunately they've both come in the last 2 months. There's already a movement afoot to end my playing career by certain women in my life [Mrs., mom, mom-in-law], but I can't do it. I can't be chased away from adult rec league soccer.
I'm sure that there will be more posted on this later...
2 comments:
I think - and you'll want to verify this - that SOCA will pay your deductible for the trip to the ER.
Really? That would be great...thanks for the tip.
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