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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: M3talhead on April 13, 2005, 11:14:56 am
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Ouch.
Today I had a little mishapp on base. I had just finished PT routine and went to the raquetball courts to play a few games with some buddies of mine. About half way through the 2nd game, I recieved a kiss from another guy's racket. My front-left tooth took the heavy blow and snapped it clean off. Unfortunatly, I have to wait until tomorrow to see an oral surgeon about getting it cemented back on or having a crown made because it was decided that its not "life threatening" (gotta love the military medical system >:( :-X).
Anyways, I'm in a mild sort of pain but decided to let you guys in on it since it appears I've pissed off somebody's diety with the string of bad luck I've been having. Enjoy.
Edit: I've replaced the picture because SOME people were getting squeamish.
(http://img201.echo.cx/img201/1967/s391mr.jpg)
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OUCH!
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That sucks! I hope you kept the other half. Now you can't use the ;D smiley.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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yep... pain in the but.
been there. watch the sharp edges. tongue just keeps hitting it.
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That sucks! I hope you kept the other half. Now you can't use the ;D smiley.
Sure I can.......(http://img151.echo.cx/img151/7254/grin5hz.gif)
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Hmmmm, wonder if that makes a good avatar ;D
Art
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What did you do to make God angry? Cheat at Racquetball?
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Hmmmm, wonder if that makes a good avatar ;D
Art
LMAO
Wow. I look like a toothless crack-addict like that.
As far as pissing off god, our whole family has had that same tooth break the same way. My dad broke his when he got hit by a car on his bike when he was about 12, my little sister got hers knocked out when she fell off a swing at age 9, and now me. I guess its just a family curse.
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Im sure there could be worse curses, but for now, we laugh ;D Loving the hack-job done for the smiley :P
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Yeah ok. "God" took control of your racquetball partner and smashed your teeth in. ::)
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Yeah ok. "God" took control of your racquetball partner and smashed your teeth in.
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Hey next time alittle warning that im going to see an open mouth in a thread would be nice. :-X Feel better. ;)
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Be glad it's a tooth!
I used to play tournaments, and saw two different instances of a guy leaving the court holding an eyeball. :o
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Instead of fixing the broken one, why not just even your mouth up with another game?
That's what I do, I solve problems.
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Be glad it's a tooth!
I used to play tournaments, and saw two different instances of a guy leaving the court holding an eyeball. :o
?!?!?!??!? ??!?!? ? !??!!?!??! ? !?!?1??!?!?!?! ?!? !?1?
I have this thing about eyes. I can watch open heart, open brain, open anything surgery, but if you put a scalpel or a needle anywhere within the vacinity of an eyeball I freak out.
I hope to god that story is not true. if it is, .. I might just throw up.
:-X
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Sorry to make you throw up, but it seriously is :-\
My buddies never used to wear the safety glasses before the first time we saw it. A raquetball can get some SERIOUS speed going, and what usually ends up happening is the ball takes an angle you've never seen before in your life. Bang. Eye problem. A good server can get the ball up in the mid-100's, EASY. Not to mention the room gets fairly tiny when you throw in three other people besides yourself, and you're trying to avoid them and either hit or avoid the ball, someone's racket, the wall.... :o
When my buddies and I first started playing, we weren't sure on how the rules went and didn't much care...we were enjoying banging the ball around. We thought if you got hit with the ball, you won the point. If someone built up a big enough lead, we "gave" him the game by trying to hit him with the ball and get the game over with quicker. You can raise some SERIOUS welts...so much so that one of my buddies ended up puking in the locker room because he was in so much pain.
Raquetball is like jai alai but in a smaller enclosed space. People have gotten killed in jai alai matches...doubt you'll get killed playing racketball, but some seriously bad stuff CAN and WILL happen, so make sure to wear the safety equipment, kiddies!
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Be glad it's a tooth!
I used to play tournaments, and saw two different instances of a guy leaving the court holding an eyeball. :o
?!?!?!??!? ??!?!? ? !??!!?!??! ? !?!?1??!?!?!?! ?!? !?1?
I have this thing about eyes. I can watch open heart, open brain, open anything surgery, but if you put a scalpel or a needle anywhere within the vacinity of an eyeball I freak out.
I hope to god that story is not true. if it is, .. I might just throw up.
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Usually when someone loses an eye playing raquetball, its because the ball grazes their temple, creating a vaccuum that follows it. That low pressure is great enough that the eye just gets sucked behing the ball, pulling with it your optical nerve cord. Never seen it happen, but it does.
Anywqays, I went to see the base oral surgeon and he gave me a root canal and cemented the broken piece back on. It took about an hour and a half in the chair, but it was worth it. I got to hold a mirror and watch everything, from sticking the anesthetic needle in my gum, to watching the canal procedure, to cementing the thing back on. Pretty cool. You cant hardly tell anything even broke. All I have to do now is watch what I eat (I.E. no apples, hard breads, hotdogs, etc..)
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My buddy lost some hearing in his ear because he took a direct hit in the ear with a racketball.
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My buddy lost some hearing in his ear because he took a direct hit in the ear with a racketball.
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Better yet, look at it as a gift from God. You had the most unique whistle in the world, tuned to just a certain frequency....and you just went and screwed it up by going to the dentist >:( You're one of those Pro-Dentite's, aren't you? >:(
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Better yet, hate god for bringing this upon you.
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My buddy lost some hearing in his ear because he took a direct hit in the ear with a racketball.
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No seriously, he was hit directly on the ear and the suction from the racketball damaged his ear drum.
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Bad luck, losing a tooth right above that cold sore.
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Bad luck, losing a tooth right above that cold sore.
Thats not a cold sore. Thats a chunk of skin the racket took with it. ;)