Much healing-ma to poor Emmett.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Mar 24, 2005 4:57:13 am PST #84 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Kat - Mar 24, 2005 4:58:43 am PST #85 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kristin are you around still? Can you pop on AIM?
JohnSweden - Mar 24, 2005 5:10:59 am PST #86 of 10001
I can't even.
Morning, folks.
I've seen the Theismann injury too many damn times and plenty of awful career-ending knee and ankle stuff watching soccer.
Mend-ma to Emmitt. When I was reading of his injury, it reminded me of when I was 8, playing box lacrosse and I took an india rubber lacrosse ball in the eye from about 10 feet away. No fracture thankfully, but they had to put stitches in my eye. (ew) Emmitt is a trooper, he'll be back chucking the old horsehide around before you know it.
Pix - Mar 24, 2005 5:12:09 am PST #87 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Kat, I'm teaching but can pop on briefly. Kids are taking a quiz. Just a sec.
Brynn - Mar 24, 2005 5:18:12 am PST #88 of 10001
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
little league baseball injuries seem to have the potential to be the most horrific somehow:
When I did my first-aid recert, the instructor told us a story about how her nephew was hit in the eye with baseball thrown from the outfield as he was pulling into second after a fairly decent run on a bunt... Apparently the pressure/angle of the hit caused his eyeball to pop out of his head, though it remained attached and his reaction was one of flight, so the eye was all bobbing up and down as he ran, and she admitted to actually having had to tackle him in order to apply first aid *insert the whole paper cup stabilize eye injury lecture here*
My reaction, being tired and sick and in a fistaid class, was, of course, to wonder what it must have looked like through the one eye spinning all over the place.
(oh, his vision was fine after. They stabilized the eye soon enough so that there weren't any long term effects).
UTTAD - Mar 24, 2005 5:18:33 am PST #89 of 10001
Strawberry disappointment.
As horrible as the Theismann one was there was a footie player in England by the name of Busst who had a worse break
Warning: Nasty picture in the link.
sumi - Mar 24, 2005 5:20:29 am PST #90 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
BTW, I think that David will love Nadia's flashback hair. . . if he ever sees this week's episode of Alias.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2005 5:23:45 am PST #91 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, UTTAD. My eyes skimmed all over that picture looking for the break. Luckily I caught it and looked away before the brain could process it as a whole.
brenda m - Mar 24, 2005 5:25:27 am PST #92 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
OMG, I should not have looked at that link.
UTTAD - Mar 24, 2005 5:31:56 am PST #93 of 10001
Strawberry disappointment.
ita: I remember at the time, I caught the match report, and the commentary had a bit about sand on the pitch because of the blood. I was like "Whuh? Blood?"
Then they showed the incident again. It kinda stayed with me for a while.
Another player (Henrik Larsson) three or four years ago got a similar injury, but actually managed to come back from it and still play at the highest level. All be it with a piece of metal holding his shin together.