Pip Pip Cheerios! In the here and now…here is another installment in my blog. Read if you wish and dare!
Within the constraints of the recent past, I sustained yet another softball related injury (shocker I know!). I’m not referred to the boo boo on my chin at this time, but instead the contusion I sustained at the base of the shin and just above the ankle on my right leg. The details of how the injury were sustained are not all that relevant, but the initial severity and lasting effects are. On the inside portion of that area just above the ankle bone that protrudes, there is a vein or blood vessel (I should’ve paid attention in biology or whatever subject taught this difference) just beneath the skin. Factoring in the force of the ball hitting that area and my 185-ish pound frame holding that structure firm…that vein/vessel ruptured upon impact. Initially a ‘bump’ took residence there and over the next several weeks (late April/early May), the swelling and discoloration migrated south into my foot! As we now sit two weeks into the month of June in the year 2021, most of the visible physical trauma has dissipated. Yet, beneath the surface, the incident can still be verified to the touch as a sub-merged ‘bump’ that can be felt. On the corresponding area on the other leg/shin, the consistency of the flesh does not have that same feel to the touch.
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