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Ever wonder if your an idiot or not?  Well I don't have to wonder anymore!  I am an idiot! Two years since I have played ball, have bad knees with my right knee in a bad need of being total reconstructed, six months into being recently dignoised with Type 2 diabetes and what do I do?  I slide into 3rd base and tore up my thigh! 

 

Pretty isn't it!  I am actually quite proud of that scrap or what ever you call it!  I hit a line drive right down the middle of left and rover that hit the fence.  Would have been nice if I had a base coach to tell me to run from second or third though!  I am one of these folks that just run!  I almost made it but rover on the other team had an arm and the third basemen just tagged my toe before I hit the base!

 

We lost both games but thankfuly my friend Cindy's dad is the coach and a back up player like her mom and he tells those who think they are going to be die hard about it to get over it and we are out there to have fun!  They make fun of me cause I go out to catch with a cig in my mouth and I go up to bat with a cig in my mouth.  I took my medicine on the way up so I couldn't have a beer but I still shouldn't have taken it!

 

I am glad I informed Cindy and her sister Shannon who also played that I was diabetic and I wasn't sure what playing softball would do to me.  My body is use to the taekowndo and walking so my sugars don't fluxate when I do those things but I wasn't sure what they would do playing ball.

 

The first game I subbed and was a hitter.  My knees swelled and were hurting but not so bad.  The second game I caught and hit.  That is when I got my hits and had to run the bases.  I came home twice and tagged out once and the fourth time I was benched because between my knees and tearing up my thigh; another highschool classmate ran to the concession stand for me to grab me a candy bar.  I started shaking and going woosy but I ended up having to hit because one of the back up wives that subbed in for me got out of batting order, I jacked it right at the second baseman and he threw me out.  Nobody held it against me.  Well one of the other highschool classmates of mine tried to get onery but my brother's highschool classmate that was pitching told her off and she went home early. 

 

After the games, they asked me if I wanted to go to one of the all night reasturants but I thought it was best that I got the kids home to bed.  Primo (the pitcher) and his wife followed me home to make sure I didn't have an accident because my sugars dropped so low and even after the candy bar they were low.  It really wasn't out of their way instead of taking one highway home they just followed me and made a circle back to their hiway by 5 miles.

 

The first picture is of the purty scrap before a bath.

 

The second picture is of it all cleaned up after soaking for about a half hour.  Sorry for an almost ass shot!  That is what you get with an 8 year old taking the pictures!

 

I made my girl stay up to take the pictures and help me banage it up.  I ended up taking a couple of my pain pills for my gallbladder because hell even sitting hurts!  I took my sugars again and ended up having to eat the rest of my steak from last night and drinking another soda.

 

I am such an idiot!  I am a 30 year old woman who is going to have to realize my body gave up on me over 3 years ago!  Or I am just going to have to get my knee done and work my way back up from walking to running.  If I play anymore ball I am going to have to cut the sliding out!

 
   

 


 
 
myclette on
Re: Such an Idiot!
Ouch! That looks pretty bad.  Its a good thing you are taking pain meds.  If you're worried about it healing well, check and see if you can take one asprin a day while taking your pain meds. It will help thin your blood and help with the your circulation.
niassa on
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Usually I don't take anything after I get a scrap like that, I am a masacest when it comes to pain.  I like the pressure on it and it usualy feels better.  But I clotted so fast and rubbed so much dirt into it before I got it cleaned up that I scrubbed the heck out of it and then washed it down with antseptic wash after the bath!  I am not to worried about it healing, so far I have been lucky with my diabetes and still clot really fast and kept my healing fastness (knock on wood!).  But  I am def going to baby this to see how my body handles a wound like this with my meds.  I have had worse but this is the first time that I got woosy but again I know that is from doing more then I was use to.

 

Might want to keep reminding me to wash it up and take a pain med though!  My hubby is gone again for a week and usually he reminds me of wound care!

atticsmouse on
Re: Such an Idiot!
you know, we never think about things when we are younger, I used to play soft ball, soccer, jump off roofs, climb trees( I miss those days) now I am in pain most of the time, and where you ask, my knees, hips and ankles, perhaps I ran one too many relay races, or jumped off one too many roofs .... but if you try to tell kids these days they just laugh at you and call you old Smiley
niassa on
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I think my kids probably will listen.  After seeing how banged up and in pain mommy usually is in after taekowndo and playing ball.  I know what you mean constantly in pain.  But I am getting better!  After loosing those first 30lbs thanks to getting the diabetes undercontrol I can move easier and it takes a bit more to get me incapacitated!  I really think I am going to get a pair of walking shoes and start walking so I can build up to a jog eventually.  I don't dare jog right off the bat!  Randy would have to come out looking for me because either my hips popped out or my knees and ankles went out on me!  Can we say BEACHED FAT WOMAN!
loneshadow on
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o_o I came across this in the latest comment and the sight made me wince in sympathy x.x  Although, I wouldn't say that your body is giving out at that age (I'd have little to look forward to then O_O ), just means you have to get it used to things like that again.
niassa on
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LOL made me wince in pain after looking at those pictures, after the fact i scrubbed it, washed it with antibotical wash, and then numbed it down with some antibotical cream and a pain pill!  Yay my body is giving out, my knees are bad, my hips are bad, my ankles are bad, I had diabetes run unchecked for 8 years, and I need to realize I have to do less impact sports!  Taekowndo is perfect!

 

And as long as you weren't a die hard athelete like I was in elementry/jr high/highschool and early 20s you should be fine!

loneshadow on
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Hmm, I wasn't a die hard athlete but I'm not even a beginner >_>  I've been trying to get myself to swim more often after work, as exercise but it's hard to do so on my own.  I'd wanted to do taekowndo cuz I think that's the one that uses sticks or I'm just confusing it with another.  Mostly so I can learn to wield my lightsabers better XD
niassa on
Re: Such an Idiot!
I know what you mean about not doing something by yourself.  I love to work out but the time I have available isn't conductive to when my friends can work out.  The Bago Tribe set up what is called Native Curves in the community center/gym and they have programs for everyone in the community but they set the times up during the day and I don't have a baby sitter.

 

Any marital arts has various stick weapons.  From what looks like a billy club to a full bo staff (looks like a walking staff).  Right now the kids and I are working on double numchucks.......gods my girl is good at them and we just started with them!  Feels sorry for anybody who screws with her!  But she would like to learn the fans eventually.

loneshadow on
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I've been told before that I should just move past it and go to places on my own but it's not just being afraid but more that I like going to places with others.  And unless I really have to go someplace, I won't for the most part if it means going on my own.  But then I've lost touch with most of my friends so...yeah, lol.

It seems fun to do those types of things.  I'd probably go for something longer, like the bo staffs than the one that looks like a billy club.  Numchucks make me antsy though o_o I've seen too many clips of guys hurting themselves to want to use one, lol.  I didn't know they taught using fans too o.O  That one sounds interesting.
niassa on
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Most marital art forms have the bo staff.  That is what I really can't wait to learn!  You learn the bo staff you will have a weapon anytime you need it by just picking something up!  And then you can use the excuse of getting a really good walking staff for hiking and boom you have a weapon!

loneshadow on
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I've always wanted a cool-looking pimp cane :-D lol.  I figured it'd be fun to use to walk with and at the same time have it to defend myself if need be.  But I'd still want to learn how to effectively use it o.o
niassa on
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Oh I know.  I want one also and eventually when I get older I will probably need one!  I want one that pulls out into a wicked looking sword though!  I wonder if I can convience a company to make a kewl looking walker that you can pull out two wicked looking swords!  You know the lil ol lady hobbling along, someone tries to mug, and then boom she flips her walker away from her and pulls out two swords and acts like a female Yoda!
loneshadow on
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I've seen some that are like that and what I had in mind too.  I'm not sure though if there has to be a certain size the blade has to be so it wouldn't be illegal.  If that's even legal to begin with o.O  Though a steel pimp-stick would work just as well anyways, lol.

 
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