Here we go again.

Not exactly a title match but close ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6j7_PyS2oc"]Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton - YouTube



hotwater

 

^ A+ for effort.

 

I'm about to knock this Dr in the teef if he comes in here and giggles again.




I want ice cream and cuddles.

 

OK...you've gotta start being LOUD NOW!!!

Tell them "I NEED SOMETHING! I HEARD THE DAMN POP!"

Hey, when I read that you heard the "POP", I cringed. On all my broken bones (10) I always heard something. I hope they can just pop it back.

 

why is he laughing?

if you are mentioning the term "glittery pony"....can you really blame him?

are you in derby gear? he might think you look fun or silly.



but seriously, if he's being unprofessional, you should definitely call him out. that's not cool.

sorry you got hurt. i'm gonna be a mess when i'm older too. hopefully i make it to old age.

 

There are lots of us banged up older folks around.

When you just glance or even look at us, it isn't evident...until we move.

 

Yeah, I've never had a break. I hobbled my way into the room, so apparently, "it's not hurting that bad if you can walk."

He thinks it's funny that I play derby. I just told him this extremely not funny, and I'd appreciate getting the professional care I'm going to be paying out the ass for.

Maybe through some random series of events, you and I will end up in the same old folks community. We can have a contest to see has the most functioning limbs remaining, have walker races, and make cat calls at the young ladies coming to visit their grannies.

 

We all have our battle scars from playing sports but we'd never give them up because they remind us of the adventure :2thumbsup:

Hotwater

 

If your Dr is coming in there and laughing...I would be a total asshole to him if it was not in good taste. And trust me...I can be a fucking prick. Really. "Oh...I see you find my injury funny. How about I put as much effort into paying your fucking bill as you're putting into helping me with my injury?" Yes...I will really look that fucker in the eye and say that.

But if he's just trying to lighten things up....it might be for your benefit in his own mind. Be capable of being an asshole but don't be an asshole unless it's the last resort.

 

Totally. I could get a leg snapped completely off, and I'd still be trying to skate.

That's probably what he's going for, but he's coming off as really condescending.


Also, I'm grouchy.

 

Jesus Christ, when do you find the time to injure yourself? Everytime I log on to the forum, you're in here.

 

I'm too lazy to log out :toetap05: also, the app doesn't time out, so even if you're not active, it never kicks you out. I usually log in some time in the morning, then log out when I go to bed so I don't have to hear the notifications all night.

 

I'm not an ER Dr, however if I were, I would probably be extremely cautious about who I would prescribe pain meds to. If you walked in on it, you're leaving with tylenol and a recommendation to follow up with your GP.

 

What's going on now???

Damn it, I feel for you!!!

 

Got a splint of shame and have to stay off skates for a couple weeks. :/

 

Wishing you the best. It sounded a lot worse than just getting a splint. I hurt just reading about it.

 

Hope it isn't too serious and wishing you a speedy recovery.Take care.

 

I hope that it doesn't hurt too bad

 

From one banged up athlete to another...stay off the sumbitch! lol
Speedy recovery to ya.

 

I don't see any conflict between these two concerns. Nobody wants to see a friend suffer, either short term or long term.

You needed your teddy bear there to hug you last night! :grouphug:

I can't imagine thinking that way. I'm just the opposite. When I hit 65, I want to be the healthiest old woman that anybody knows around here. Preserving yourself is hard. It's a completely different kind of a challenge from being an athlete.

We know that women are more fragile than men, physically, but we don't know yet just exactly how much worse off the first generation of hardcore female athletes will be than their male counterparts. The first generation to go that route is almost being used like laboratory rats.

I'm not saying that women shouldn't enjoy sports, just that everybody has to figure out what some reasonable limits are for themselves, and we need to encourage our friends to do that too, if we really care about them.

It's not wimpy to not want to end up like Joe Namath, with his dangling pair of permanently snapped hamstrings. His legs look gross. He's lived like that for a lot of years.