When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
(Photo taken in Punta del Este, Uruguay)

Monday, March 10, 2008

An Accident -Prone Year

Never in my life have I been an accident-prone person, but I guess all those years of lucking out are finally at their end. This year has officially turned me into an accident-prone person. It all started when I broke my nose. I was wrestling with my nephew and randomly he head butts me and breaks my nose. I had to wear a nose cast around school for 5 days for that one. The next occurrence happened a couple of months ago at a track meet. I was with all the sprinters jogging around the track at Northern Arizona University the day before our meet. We were just warming up, getting the long bus trip out of our legs, and chatting, when out of nowhere an indoor javelin hits me square in the forehead! It then ricocheted and hit a couple of the other girls as well, but I think I can definitely say I took the brunt of the hit. I went over to the side of the track and the tears immediately started coming as well as a huge goose-egg on my forehead. After getting checked out the trainers decided I had a minor concussion and would not be allowed to compete the next day. A whole trip for nothing, and a bruised forehead for the next week or so! Seriously, what are the odds? Then just last weekend at our indoor conference championships my foot started to hurt in the hurdle finals. I limped on it the rest of the weekend including all around downtown Chicago, and then when we returned I had an MRI and such, and they decided I tore a tendon in my foot. So currently, I am on crutches and will be for two more weeks, and then back into a boot for another unknown amount of time. This all means I am probably done competing for the season which = lame. Seriously, I have never been accident-prone in my entire life, but I guess it just decided to all catch up to me in the past 6 months, what bad luck!

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