From the mind of Hamish

My views on news, current events, sports and the general goings on in my life.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Well it's official, my toe is indeed broken. Quite an impressive break too according to the radiographer. So once again I'm on crutches (I was on crutches 18 months ago when I had a suspected broken foot) and hating every second of it.

I was talking to my wife while we were waiting for the nurse and saying that 7 or 8 years ago I would have been enjoying all the attention I'm getting, these days I'm just pissed off that I have to hobble around on crutches for a few weeks.

So how did I do it? I fell down the stairs. I was carrying one of our cats downstairs to put him out for the night when I slipped on one of the stairs. I fell backwards with one of my legs going up underneath me (I think, it happened damn fast). I managed to take all the skin off the front of my shin and bang my knee in addition to breaking my big toe. I also got a nice cat scratch on my stomach where my cat decided to bail out when he realized I was going down. Lucky bastard, landed on his feet and walked away.

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Last year I decided to convert my personal blog into a political blog. Blogging about politics was fun, but at the same time rather depressing. So I figured what the hell, turn this blog back into a personal blog and post about whatever you want. And I did.

2007 hasn't been a good year for injuries for me so far. On the first night of the year I subluxed (partially dislocated) my right shoulder. How you ask? Not in some violent collision or awkward twist, I just stretched my arm up above my head in bed. I should probably point out that I've done over my left shoulder repeatedly with multiple subluxations and dislocations resulting in having stabilisation surgery 7 years ago. That shoulder is good as new now apart from the occasional aches on a cold morning. Fortunately I doubt I've done any real damage to my right shoulder this time, just over a week later and on a course of anti-inflammatories it feels pretty good.

But last night I managed to fall down the stairs and suspect I may have broken a big toe. I also managed to tear off a strip of skin from my shin and the cat I was carrying at the time left a few marks too. Not a good start to the year.

Still, I've decided to start a new blog over on Wordpress.com about sports. It's one of my passions and there's lots of sports coming up this year. The Super 14 is only a month away, the Commonwealth Bank series starts on Friday, Cricket World Cup, Rugby World Cup, it's a sports lover's paradise. So I figured I'd start writing about it. Who knows, I might enjoy it, I might start a podcast and make some money out of it. I also might get bored of it and stop writing after the second week of the Super 14, only time will tell.

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