So I went to a football game today with officers from my ship. Throwing the football before the game, I somehow managed to injure the ring finger on my left hand on a catch. I kept it iced during the game and was able to flex it and everything but it never quite stopped swelling and it eventually bruised really badly.
I have it splinted pretty heavily right now in order to be ready to go to Medical in the morning tomorrow. The sad thing about this is that this is the second time I have injured my hand catching a football (same hand even). When I was in high school I was playing catch and had the ball hit my left pinky instead of my hand and force the outer two finger bones over the innermost one, which I then had to pop out. That hurt a lot, and never fully healed.
I think I’m going to have to stop playing catch with real footballs from now on or something, this is crazy. I’m pretty sure I didn’t dislocate the finger this time, but judging from the continuous swelling I may have fractured the bone. We’ll see tomorrow I guess.
It’s a good thing I finished with Guitar Hero III on Medium yesterday because it’s going to be quite some time before I can play again I would imagine. :(
On an unrelated note, the Indianapolis Colts are beating up on the Ravens pretty bad at this point. Peyton Manning has already been pulled from the game, with 13 completions for 17 attempts, for 249 yards and 4 touchdowns. According to my QB rating calculator he only needed one more completion (even for no yardage!) to get a perfect QB rating of 158.3. His final rating was 157.5.