dislocations are a bitch!
back in september, on the 11th to be exact, i decided to be all cool and shit and go paintballing with my teammates from work…i mean c’mon i am not THAT OLD so why the fuck not right?! i was all into it and ready to let the games begin..woohoo, let’s go..
when the team was all together and we had our little “safety” speech by one of the refs, we headed out to the field, field #7 (that bitch). there were soooo many freakin’ people there on the same field along with a bunch of kids too! i was all, “i got this”… yah, well the first round was fun, manuvering from left to right, staying low enough so as not to get shot at, actually crawling on the damn ground too and killing my knees at that…what the hell, right!! O__o i was doing pretty good, shot a few on the other team, mainly the kids..haha..shit, they were at my level why not!! and all of a sudden some ass of a player sneaks up from behind and BAM BAM BAM..3 shots in the back! those left a mark for a week!!! naturally our team lost because of that ass…anyway, round 1 done…
round 2…we switch sides and all hell breaks loose….my guys, alfred and jon take off on the right…i see my girl, gia, go left…me, i was adjusting my damn face mask cause the bitch was loose and then i take off following this kid…he’s already low to the ground and he turns to me and says..”let’s go..!” ok, here i go in a hunched over position…he steps over this ditch in the ground, my mask is slipping off from the sweat and the fact that it’s still loose..i STEP IN the ditch and there i go…FALLING DOWN!!! i don’t think to drop the gun, i don’t know why i don’t, the bitch was heavy and it only brought me down faster…as i was going down, i had my finger on the trigger and hitting whatever i could in the angle i was in as i was dropping…my right shoulder took the brunt of the fall and i felt numb! OUCH!!! i willed myself to get up like i do when i fall down snowboarding..it was NOT the same….THE GROUND was HARD and it took me out!! jon came running over and called the ref and they both helped me up…i was HURT!!! DAMN!!!
i iced my shoulder right away and no one, not even myself, noticed that i had dislocated it until after i changed into clean clothes…that shit was popped up higher than my left shoulder and the pain started to hit me HARDER than you can imagine…the muscles under it were starting to dimple and i STARTED TO CRY!!!
sitting in the ER was no joke either even with 2 doses of morphine…i was still in PAIN…finally the savior came, helped me flip myself over and then pulled down on my arm and POPPED my shoulder back into place….my pain subsided so fast, i wanted to hug him so hard!!! i ended up missing a week of work and was stuck in a sling for 3 uncomfortable weeks…
now it is the 5th of november and well, i am still NOT back to normal! my doctor said even with physical therapy, it can still take up to a whole year to be fully functional….i can’t raise my right arm all the way yet, my muscles are still sore and still very tight…stretching hurts! it is still HARD to sleep good at night..always tossing and trying not to sleep on the right side sucks! grrrr… i guess i should be thankful that i didn’t break my shoulder because it would’ve been a whole lot worse…i AM THANKFUL…and i’m also very thankful for my family who had to put up with a lot of me and my impatient ass…i love them!!
just saying…
