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Six weeks of No Play!
during rugby training last night….
being a back, usually wing, i’m not normally involved in the forwards stuff, rucking etc. but, last night was well in the thick of it for about an hour of defensive drills, i got kicked in the head, battered, trodden on, my hand was trodden on and my ankle twisted but, i carried on, loved it and the adrenalone was flowing,
the last half hour was a full contact 30 minute game tween backs and forwards, a little underweighted we were but, the younguns on my side had the speed, i just needed quick hands! well, squashed, shoved, picked up and carried 3yrds back by on lump and generally feeling pretty battered, i was ready to call it quits due to a nagging calf strain but, having lost a couple of our guys already our numbers were down and i stayed on, we were winning 6 or 7 trys to 4 and with two mins to go I slipped and missed the tackle, straight onto my feet i made a lunge for his shirt, grabbed it and instantlly lost my grip,
up to my feet again and something made me look at my right hand, I wish I hadn’t!! my ring finger resembled a pigs tail and was facing 90° the wrong way, not to mention looking rather twisted, defo dislocated,
a trip to A&E last night proved that not only was it dislocated once (which we’d popped back in) but twice and the middle bone had a bad fracture along it’s length, back in this morning for manipulation and a splint, absolutely gutted as that it for 4-6 weeks now, no fishing, no rugby, no nothing other than a daily struggle to do my day to day tasks! even typing this as taken far too long and if i hit my splint on anything else i swear i’ll scream!
couldn’t be my left hand could it? oh no… mouse, keyboard etc, all a pain, got to apply a few a boards tomorrow, will be interesting!
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18 Replies
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Wow Hugh hope you heal up quick.
Just reading that made my eyes water.
So glad I was never good at sports, therefore I never felt compelled to put myself through that!
A few years back my eldest brother got his right forefinger pinched off behind the first knuckle when blocking up a huge crane.
Luckily he’s left handed.
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So sorry to hear that Hugh – these things are a nightmare and you don’t realise how much it affects your day to day life until you have an injury like that.
Even little things like just wiping your @rse become a nightmare 😕
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hope you heal quickly it must be a nitemare 😀
Lynn
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thanks guys n gals, hope it heals up a lot quicker than my ribs did!
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Heres to a speedy recovery…………..
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Hugh, I dont have any sympathy for you at all,
you makes your decision to do daft things, and suffer the consequences.
Hope you get well soon though 😀Peter
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sorry to hear this Hugh, nothing worse mate… but hey, sport is a buzz and most of them come with consequences. without the consequences, well… wouldn’t be just as exciting now would it? 😛
If your a true sportsman, which i am sure you are… 6 weeks from now you will be gagging to get back in the thick of it mate! :lol1: :lol1:hope you have a speedy recovery! 😀
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softy 😉 :lol1:
get well soon mate, I was always a forward although easier to tell you the positions I never played which were centre and fly half, played every other position on the field and yes, even scrummie 😮 I stopped playing club rugby when I got injured at pre-season practice, some large dude fell on me when he should have been rucking over and sprained my sternum and pulled my neg, couldn’t move for about 2 weeks and sleep was almost impossible at times.
I am now a lot more cautious of the sports I do (gave up MTB Downhilling as well) as I can’t afford not to be able to work for the families sake.
good luck for a quick recovery and stay away from the big boys up front 🙄 :lol1:
cheers
Warren
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Nasty Hugh! Hope it heals quick. 😀
Two old women on a bus
First Woman: That rugby is a rough sport, my son came home last night with an ear in his hand.
Second Woman: Dear Jesus that’s awful, what did you do?
First Woman: What could I do? He didn’t even know who owned it! 😀
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So did you win the game then Will ?
No sympathy for the injury though, I bust my scaphoid a few years back and ended up having a bone graft screwed in, the bone was from the NHS bone bank 😮 All of a sudden been a busted leftie I had to learn how to do everything right handed……….the toliet dept was not happy at first because it was a little hit n miss 😳
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lol Nigel,
i’ve been trying to do a few things left handed but it;s not going well!i’m finding the simple things are the hardest…. like trying to put a key in a lock, my sticky out splint hits the door or steering column in the van, long before the key goes in, i keep doing it!
I’m no true sportsman mind, only been playing again for a year in october -had a short break or around 20yrs-, I missed last two month of last season with the ribs and only now have i just about got back into any kind of reasonable condition / getting some confidence back.
loved the forward work but, just not big enough / strong enough to be in there full time, not with the guys we often play, need to get much fitter for that!
i guess it could be considered silly to be doing something which can affect my income if it goes wrong but, i guess we only live once and now approaching 40 i figured if i don;t do it now then i never will! one of my 3rd team / vet forwards is 64! he’s out every weekend so if he can do it….!
thanks for all the good wishes,
Hugh
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🙁 Oh I hope you get well soon Hugh! x
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Sounds painful Hugh – do you have any kind of insurance through the club though?
G
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Thats a tough break Hugh. (see what i did there?)
I know hard it can be to be injured and have to work. I played Ice Hockey in Canada for 15 years and usually spent most of the winter working with one injury or another. Made worse mind you as I was a Goaltender so received loads of shots etc. Still, its what makes it all fun really. Hope the finger comes back straight too! might have a nice curl on it. Great for stories to the grandkids!
Keep taking the pills 🙂
Peter
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Hugh,
I feel for you, I crushed my fingers quite badly a couple of years ago, 8 or 9 breaks in the 2 smallest fingers and lots of stitches and stuff. Like you I work for myself so not working is not really an option, you’ll be surprised just how quickly you adapt.
The biggest problem was driving, since I was a hospital outpatient I immediately became uninsured so no driving for the first month and then another 3 or 4 weeks period after I had some bits of wire put in and removed. Saved a lot on money on petrol and did a lot of walking.
Plenty of physiotherapy and everything is almost as good as before.Steve
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Ouch….GWS Hugh. I used to play regularly (number 13) even reaching the great heights of being in the RAF 2nd team in Cyprus some years ago…well many many aeons actually :lol1: and had to give up at the age of 25 on medical advice. I had knackered knees and found it difficult walking up stairs.
Hope you mend soon and acan get back in there…I miss it loads but that’s life.
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quote Gavin MacMillan:Sounds painful Hugh – do you have any kind of insurance through the club though?
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i think we do but, havn’t paid the yearly subs yet, not sure how it works so will ask!
Steve, sounds worse than mine! the break is along the bone (clean in two though), luckily didn;t have surgery, just tractioned into place with a splint on, hurts more now than when i did it, in fact, coulnd’t even feel it when it happened, very surreal!
not sure about the insurance thing, they’re going to call me back in but, i’m always an outpatient -auto-immune prob- so guess i should look into that! doesn’t affect my driving but this finger does keep turning the wipers on!
Peter,
the aches and paind which usually last a few days are all part and parcel eh! the irony is that tuesday was probab;y the hardest i;ve had to work but, i’ve no aches anywhere other than this throbbing finger, prob ony throbbing cos i keep knocking it!Rog, shame about the knees, seems most players have one thing or another to worry about! i’ve no aspirations for the 2nd team, quite happy in the 3rds,
I should add though, we all train together, colts -who choose to- through to 1st team and a few academy players too, it was a 1st team player i was trying to stop!
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Hugh,
Check the insurance, that could be very embarrassing.
Mine fingers/hand were in plaster to begin with but it didn’t last very well here at work, especially out of the sling, so I made some splints out of 5mm foam. The physio thought they were quite nice , but she had some brilliant themosetting PVC sheet which she heated and then gently wrapped over my hand, perfectly shaped and moulded to my hand. I sure there must be an application for it outside of medicine.
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