And that would be an understatement:( Let’s go down blog history lane again, only this time it’s not the van, it’s the shoulder. It all started skiing at Marble Mountain, NF with the initial dislocation. Then I started playing basketball again and a few months later, the series started. Over the next year, I stupidly kept playing and subluxating my shoulder (where it partially rolls out of the joint and rolls right back in, it doesn’t quite come out completely). Then one night it happened about 15 times in one game and that’s when I knew I was losing brain cells as I got older that I didn’t stop playing. I started physio and kept playing. A visit to the orthopedic surgeon where he advised me to not play for a minimum of 6 months… which I ignored. Until I finally snapped out of it and took off almost a year from playing. I started playing again last August and everything was stable and great until tonight. For whatever reason, my shoulder impacted with one of the other players as just the right angle and it subluxated again.

However, while anyone looking at my past would think I was dumbest person alive, I actually do *eventually* learn from my lessons. I took myself out of the game right away, came home, iced up my shoulder. I’ll take off a full 2 weeks, do physio and assess carefully. The last thing I want to do is take off another 6 months to a year, so I need to do this right this time, sigh:(

On another note, we had a fight break out at the game tonight. Two grown men (both older than 40) scrapping at each other, kicking, pushing, cursing at each other. I’m always somewhat startled when this sort of thing happens. They’re nice guys, but throw them on the court, mix in some stress, testosterone and irritation and look out.