Belle's Soccer Team Advances

The coaches and players of the Wizards soccer team have fun together during team pictures. 

The Wizards won 3-2 tonight in the first round of post-season tournament play.  It was a hard-fought battle that had the on-lookers tense until the very end.  Belle was still on the injured list, recovering from a nasty ankle sprain (x-rays ruled out a break).  They play again on Thursday evening, in the quarter-finals.  Go WIZARDS! 

Yyyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!!!

This laceration did not require stitches and the pain was not all that terrible.  Nonetheless I almost passed-out immediately after sustaining the wound and it started to bleed, nearly performed the classic vomit-and-faint combination in the doctor's office when she washed it clean, and continue to make myself light-headed and queasy-in-the-stomach when I change the gauze bandage.  Just thought I would share the joy.

Another Hand Injury Remembered

 Yep, it was in 2002 when I did this to myself.  Weirdly, it looks much worse than it actually was.  The skin had peeled up and off my finger, but went right back down into place and grew back with no lasting deleterious effects.

Oh, HOW did it happen?  Well, I jumped and reached for something overhead and around a metal corner -- as I came down from the jump (probably 16 or 17 inches of vertical jump, as I recall sarcastically) my wedding ring caught the edge of the metal and remained there, pulling skin off in the process.

I worked with a hand doctor at the time, and he suggested that nothing really needed to be done for the finger.  I was still in shock (he was seeing me just minutes after this injury occurred) and his nurse insisted that he treat it as a serious injury so he relented and ordered x-rays.  Nothing was broken and the only treatment was to wrap the wound and keep it clean and dry.