Damn, I had to send another person to the hospital tonight!

[Reverend_Smitty]

I was working a field hockey game and the varsity game went by quite smoothly with no hiccups...then 5 minutes into the JV game (who knew they had JV field hockey at the college level?) a girl just falls down into a heap on the turf. I run out there and shes screaming in pain...nobody tripped her or pushed her, she merely caught her cleat on the turf and *crack* broke her ankle. She was on the opposing team and they sent 2 student AT's (who I knew because it was my alma mater) so they carried her to the sidelines and I held her leg and tried my best to keep it immobile until the EMT's arrived with a proper splint and take her to the hospital.

This is now the 6th time an ambulance has had to be called out to one of the athletic fields on campus this semester (and we're only a month in)...we've been cursed with some freak accidents lately

[SeattleGirl]

1. Good lord!

Hope this slacks off soon!

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. seriously!

or at least the hospital should give us frequent flyer discounts!

[grasswire]

3. it's dangerous out there!

My niece/nephew run high school cross country. Saturday they ran some kind of a wild free for all event out in the woods somewhere. There were mud pits, streams to run through, an enormous rocky hill to slide down and then climb back up. One girl was trampled when she fell and others ran over the top of her. Paramedics had to tend to her. My niece came home with multiple bruises, long scratches, and caked with mud. She said when she slid down the rocky slope her undies bunched up like a thong and it was extremely painful going over the rocks. My nephew bathed off all the mud in a river and was nearly hypothermic, according to a coach. (He's seen too many episodes of man v. wild, apparently.) And he's limping from some kind of a strain in his mid-section. I'm watching for signs of appendicitis or hernia on that one.

Geez!

[MrScorpio]

4. You need a good nick name

Crusher?

The Hammer?

Smasher?

[Eurobabe]

5. Mercury retrograde is coming, I had a plastic bottle

explode into my back yesterday at school (not my bottle) I thought someone SHOT me! But alas, I am overseas and no one owns guns. :)

Look for all kind of weird freak accidents between now and the end of October. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[BlueIris]

8. Saturn in Virgo.

If it's time for you to address a health issue, (Virgo) Saturnine influences (consequences of health-endangering behavior/circumstances) are going to let you know it.

[Eurobabe]

9. My best friend fell off her bike, my mom crossed over the street

and plowed into a curb...all this an Mercury (that little peckerhead) isn't officially retro until 10.11!!!

Oh goodie, Saturn influences too?? :sarcasm:

[BlueIris]

10. Yeah, tell me about it. Saturn's ingress into Virgo isn't beating me down

as badly as it's beating some folks in my life, but it...hasn't been pretty, either. And there's always that pesky Uranus in Pisces factor. That's been coalescing with a lot of bizarre accidents, particularly those having to do with feet (Pisces rules the feet) and for people for whom the transit hits stressful things in their charts.

[DarkTirade]

6. I know somebody who broke his ankle just by stepping off a curb.

We humans haven't finished evolving into the upright walking thing entirely methinks. :)

No coincidence that this guy became a shop steward for the union at work, and is the biggest proponant for our free health insurance, since it saved him thousands of bucks when that happened.

[BlueIris]

11. Let's hear it for getting enough calcium/chondritin, eh?

[Eurobabe]

12. Let's hear it for DEXA scans and Boniva!

Finally confirmed that my mom has osteoporosis. Figured that when she started shattering wrists every ten years. Was just confirmed last week.

Ladies, get your dexas!!

[krispos42]

7. Soon your 911 calls will go like this...

<phone rings>

OPERATOR: Nine one one emergency. How can I help?

REVEREND SMITTY: It's Smitty.

OPERATOR: The ususal?

SMITTY: Yup.

OPERATOR: They're rolling. Four minutes.

SMITTY: Thanks.

<both hang up>


Hell, keep this up and you might get your own "ten-code" number. The dispatcher can just say something like "4 baker three one, respond code three to a 10-92", and they would know it's a Reverend Smitty sports injury.

:rofl: