Kristin are you around still? Can you pop on AIM?

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.

Kat, I'm teaching but can pop on briefly. Kids are taking a quiz. Just a sec.

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).

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.

BTW, I think that David will love Nadia's flashback hair. . . if he ever sees this week's episode of Alias.

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.

OMG, I should not have looked at that link.

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.

Yeah, that was the stomach churning part. Leg not supposed to bend that way.

Oh, yeah. And I think I've seen that footie break, too. And HOLY CARP on the eye bobbing all around.