Managing Mishaps, and Other Miscalculations.

December 13th 2010.

It was a heart throbbing, sweat filled dance that night in the Dojo. Dance meaning I was working on politely pummeling another Karate student during continuous sparring. The events of the evening are still a little hazy for me still but I will try my hardest to piece them together for you. There are some times in your life when you are supposed to dodge incoming traffic instead of running right into it. When you are idiotic enough to run straight into cet speeding vehicle, chances are nothing good is going to come out of it. This time the speeding vehicle was a beautiful spinning hook kick that connected to the right side of my jaw with what felt like the force of a Mack truck. It was enough to render me unconscious for a few seconds and after the pretty stars cleared my vision I was once again on my rear end. Not such a good track record for me so far! OW. Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! Never have I experienced such pain before in my life. It felt like my entire lower jaw had been shoved into the left side of my brain and then shattered into a million pieces. I couldn't bite down and it felt like my poor teeth would never be able to match up with each other again. Do you think that would be enough for me to call it quits for the evening. Oh no. Not me. I decided to get up and spar again. It must have been adrenaline, sheer stupidity or simply a high pain tolerance, but I managed through two more fights till the end of class. After class, I called Mark to let him know I would be needing an ice pack and LOTS of Advil. All was fine and dandy until I was about 6 blocks from home and I realized I was bleeding out of my left ear. Definitely not a good sign. I made another quick phone call to Mark informing him he would be driving me to the hospital. Upon driving me to the hospital, Mark broke at least five traffic laws! By then, fighting against nausea and dizziness, I was in no state to point out the blatant disregard for the rules of the road. At the hospital I was sent for x-rays where I almost fainted twice! The Doctor decided to keep me overnight and send me for a head ct the next morning.  I did not enjoy my two day hospital stay. The prognosis, some inner ear damage and ruptured ear drum. None of which is supposed to be permanent. It is taking its sweet time to heal though.

Upcoming Dates:
Tournament# 3 Sylvan lake January 22
Belt test January 30th
Pan-Am qualifying tournament in Regina on February 19th.
(looks like its going to be a fun and busy winter!)