Injuries

I either jammed or broke the finger to the left of my middle finger on my left hand. So I decided to compile a list of my past injuries.

In no particular order or ranking.

1. Sprained ankles (both).
Mainly during the half season I played JV football in tenth grade. I played again in my eleventh grade but managed to stay healthy where my ankles are concerned. My shoulders and fingers didn't fair to well during junior year.
One time in college I was carrying a keg with my older brother in the fraternity and I dropped my half and rolled on my right ankle. Hasn't looked the same since before that night.

2. Jammed and sprained fingers.
I pretty much have sprained all my fingers except for my thumbs going back to, I believe, second grade. Back then it was during gym and playing basketball. The same can be said about middle school. During high school is more because of football. In college I hurt my fingers because of dodgeball and intramural football during my tenure in TKE.

3. Broken hand/Dislocated wrist.
Summer before fifth grade in August. Rollerblades down a make shift ramp. Oh yeah! My left hand and my hand itself was pointing towards the ground right where the hand meets the wrist and leaded to the forearm and onward. I want to say six weeks in a plaster cast and two in a fiberglass one.

4. Broken nose.
Never go pick a fight with someone you've never met on their turf. Also, if you get a gut feeling that you shouldn't be on your way to do something then stop and turn around. Just do it. Listen to that feeling.

5. Black eyes.
Read what I wrote above.

6. Cuts
Paper cuts and gashes from slipping in the kitchen or the stairs of Plum Tomatoes.

7. Bruised hip
My 10th grade football season. During agilities at the start of practice. I heard pop and had a limp for 3 weeks or so.

8. Popped blood vessels.
Dropped a 25 pound weight on my toes. Saw the blood vessel stain underneath the toenail. Had blood vessels popped in my right eye from taking a punch from someone while on their turf.

9. Sprained knee
junior year of college in the moshpit during some band. As I Lay Dying, Atreyu, Story of the Year and the Deftones. Wasn't a very good show. Atreyu had already begun to suck really bad.

10. Stitches
For gashes above my right eyebrow. To my right of my nose. Under my nose and inside my bottom lip. I had to get stitches above my right eyebrow twice. Freshman year while at New Paltz and in September 2007 just a few months after I graduated in May.

11. Bruised tailbone
I sat on a little kids snowmobile type toy like the Little Tyke red car with the yellow roof. Then I was pushed down the stairs that connect the basement and the first floor of the 18 Front Street TKE house in New Paltz. Four weeks on sitting on my ass gingerly.