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December 19, 2005
POP!
Damn. Oh well. It sucks to get injured but I couldn't be more happy showing off my battle injury. I was making my best link yet on Dark Age (V11). I started matched in the undercling and was going to make it into See Spot Run (The V6 finish). I had my left hand on that weird sidepull on the arete. I move my right hand down to the horrible pinch and then over to a right hand sidepull. I've never stuck the sidepull before but yesterday I was feeling stronger than ever. I stuck the hold and then the most disgusting cracking noise ever!!!! For a split second I thought, "I should keep going." Nope...the pain quickly set in and I was off, swearing, "Oh Shit, it's my finger Apirl...Shit."
Today I spent most of my day at the doctor. I got an x-ray because I was sure I broke my ring finger. See, isn't it good that I don't wear my wedding ring climbing? So, to my surprise they said, "negative." I was like, "what? it isn't broken? But I heard it crack, it was a crack not a little pop." They just said, "It's a negative sir." Oh well, I"m off to the hand specialists, maybe an MRI or something like that.
In summary: Dark Age = 1, Paul = 0. When I recover from this Dark Age is going down! Mark my words...
Posted by Paul at December 19, 2005 06:36 PM