Python14
12-13-2002, 11:12 PM
Hey, I'm back after like a three month hiatus from paintball and the AO. Heres my tale, back in sept. my parents said I had to buy my own car so I naturally threw a tantrum. not really. But I was angry. So I made the irresposible decision of promptly selling my paintball gear. Well, my parents suprised me on my birthday with a Jeep Cherokee Pioneer. So I had a car, but no gun or stuff. So I took the money I had plus some more and got a cocker and some gear. I played with that for about three weeks until I took a trip to Wintergreen Resort with my church. We were the people running the haunted house up there and I was janked with a position outside. Well, wouldn't you know it, the first run through, I slip and bank my knee on a rock. I sat there, swearing like a sailor, for about 20 minutes. Well, I finished off the night alright and had a good time. My knee was in shambles but I was gonna live, somehow. So a few days passed and my knee didn't get any better. It actually got worse, alot worse. By Thanksgiving break, my knee was a third larger and I was incapable of running to any degree. It was also a nasty shade of blue. I tried different cremes and gels. I tried heatpads. I tried everything. So finally my mom took me to see a doctor(she didn't learn about it until like a week ago). When I showed the doc my knee, she said it really concerned her. We took some x-rays and she set up another appointment(today). Well, I went in today and immediately she gave me a local anestetic for my knee. When it fully set in, she used a little knife to make a small cut right above my knee cap. Then she put a little tube in and I stopped looking at that point. After she was done, she put some glueish stuff on my knee cap and bandaged it up. The swelling was gone and my skin was slowy turning red again. I asked her what she did and she said she removed dead tissue in my knee. Apparently, I killed my knee. Ofcoarse I asked if it would return my knee to normal so I can go back to paintball and she responded with the magic words "YES". In two weeks Ill be able to play again! This is like a chistmas gift from God(not that Jesus wasn't)...So I'm back paintballing again and back to the AO. YAY!