Sick & Broken :(

On Sunday WC and I played in our first Yankee volleyball tournament. Yankee is one of the main, formal vball organizations in the area. They organize tournaments and have official rankings for individual players that range from C- to A+. The guy who put our team together entered me as a C-, which honestly kind of bummed me out because I'd like to think I'm a little better than beginner after more than 15 years of playing. I ended up having a great tourney day and the official rater wanted to write me up to a C+. Yay!

So I went into our regular co-ed 6s league last night pretty jazzed to play after my great outing the day before. I'm currently battling a cold with a nasty cough though so I thought about not going but couldn't resist. I should have listened to my instincts because at the second-to-last game of the night I went to dig a hard-driven ball that managed to contact my thumb in just the right way to both dislocate it and tear the ligaments. And on my dominant (right) hand too! Spent three hours in the ER where it took three different doctors to try before they could finally get the bone back in place. I tried to tough it out with no pain killers but after several minutes of them pulling and pushing my unnaturally angled thumb I couldn't take it anymore and let them shoot me up with some numbing liquid. They're telling me 4-6 weeks of recovery time, but I hope it's sooner because one month from today I'm supposed to be snowboarding in Vail! Send me healing vibes!

P.S. It sucks to type with one hand. To immobilize the thumb until I see the hand specialist tomorrow (who knew there was such a thing, btw?) they wrapped me up in a temporary cast-like thing up to my elbow. Got a sling and everything. Blah, seems like overkill.