I've been thinking about all the injuries I've had over the years and how i got them.
injury: 5th grade - sprained ankle.
It was recess and i jumped up in the air (reason unknown) and my right foot landed on the blade of the foot. I suspect it was from the ghetto shoes my mom bought me from the navy thrift shop. I found out that the right shoe was a size bigger than the left. I remember limping home like a kook, i thought i could just walk it off....... My dad comes home and notices my new strut. Next thing you know we're at tripler and I'm getting a cast on my foot. They added a tall layer of rubber to my left foot so that I'll walk evenly. it was the biggest platform slipper ever.....
Back in school, everybody was diggin on the cast, signing it and people carrying stuff for you (yeah, the kids were kind back then). The party ended when i realized my leg was itchy like hell! While at home i managed to use a wire hanger to scratch my itch. after a few week of slim jimmin' my leg, the cotton bunched up on my shin.
time went on with me and my now dirt brown cast. I even got the blue angels to sign it at an air show at barber's point. i was sooo stoked. I was planning to save that part of the cast when i got it removed.
The day of removal. I was so stoked to get this bastard off my leg. Of course, the guy cuts right in the middle of my blue angels autographs. I was so pissed that i almost cried, but i think curiosity about seeing my leg staved it off. so off comes the cast and my right leg is so my smaller than my left. I'm totally trippin' out. We notice there's some cotton stuck on my shin. All that scratching cut my foot and i actually bled. it was nasty. fortunately i didn't get an infection or anything like that. Went home and washed my emaciated limb.
I don't think my ankle really healed. It was so ifffy for years...... (the inflatable castle at the church carnival, foot stuck in the cracks - years later). I was Left with my crutches and a really tall left-side slipper.
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we should be glad things heal (somewhat) and we have another day to face the challenge....i had to back out of this weekend's disney half ironman due to a back injury (crash at last week's race) and a cold (courtesy of kaleo jr.)...as long as we return to fight another day.
hope all is well. sonny.
r.i.p. keoki
Interesting.....I didn't know you in 5th grade but I could so picture you with the cast on, I do have a picture of you climbing a tree in my yard - good thing you didn't fall and re-injure that same leg. I'll let you know when I'm in your neck of the woods, we could do coffee or you could join me for a hellish 90 minutes of Bikram! Can't wait for the holidays to be over so I can get back into it!
Take care.
- C. A. K.
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