Bah, weaklings.
Lemme see, paintball ONLY injuries?
Medial Mallius fracture, left ankle. Basically, snapped the bone. Running in the woods, hit a gopher hole in my spikes. The spikes grabbed, ankle rolled. Snap, broken, kept playing on it anyway. "Immobilised" for 6 weeks.
4 stitches on the bottom of my right foot. Back in the day when I wore tabi boots (ninja shoes for you cretins). Stepped on a log with dry rot, went right through it, and something under it (glass or metal still not sure) slashed into my heel. 4 stitches at hte Mayo in Rochester, went back to the field after my stitches were in.
Road Rash : Baseball slide on a gravel pit in Phoenix, AZ. the gash was deep enough that it needed a DEEP cleaning of sand and debris. Played two days later with a bandage and no kneepad on my left knee.
Locked vertebrea : Playing at EMR, I was chasing two guys and went off a cliff (I couldn't see it, tere were trees in front of it.) I fell 15 feet or so, landing on my left knee. Instead of hte knee breaking, the shock traveled up my thigh bone, into my hip, and into L3 and L4 vertebrea. They locked together. To this day it gives me grief. You don't want to know how long that took to crack back into place (or how many chiroprachtors it took...) It's one of hte reasons I wear the packs I do, BACK SUPPORT.
Lemme see, I won't count the expected abbrasions and scrapes, I can ignore some of the more tame muscle pulls, and the "permanent welts", the "groin hits" and the gangleon I got because of a paintball strike...
I played with a broken wrist at Knoxville and Skyball 2002, but that was a pre-existing condition. But playing with a cast is entertaining, to say the least. And the floating bone chip in my elbow, that's another thing too.
What else have I done to myself? Umm, I think that's about it. I haven't needed to be carried off the field yet, I've never lost conciousness, and I haven't bled out of control yet. That's a good thing. But, hey, the year is still young.
-Tyger
