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- From: bud@paradise.pegasus.com (Bud Carlson)
- Subject: Re: first surf injury
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.065733.15015@paradise.pegasus.com>
- Organization: Quantum Reef Project (Big Island of Hawaii)
- References: <9212162332.AA04560@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:57:33 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark) wrote:
- >I sure have enjoyed reading about all the injuries you
- >stand up surfers get. Makes me wonder why everybody
- >doesn't bodyboard. My worst injury ever was from a
- >ape head hard board surfer bailing his board in front of me
- >(and that was just a bruise). Oh yes, and I once hurt my
- >leg trying to shoot Hueneme Pier. (I did it twice with no
- >problem, what a rush!)
- >
- I always thought that the real reason you guys rode those things was
- because you were either handicapped or were recovering from an injury
- and were just determined to get in the water until you were healed
- enough to get back up on your feet -:)
-
- Sorry Danny, I just couldn't resist:
-
- Every time I come home bleeding my wife says "If you would listen to me
- and start bodyboarding you wouldn't keep getting hurt."
-
- Actually I've been injured more often getting to the surf than while
- surfing. My most recent injury (while surfing) happened last Sunday. I
- had just kicked out when I dropped my feet to spin around quick, cause
- a set was grinding through the inside and I was about to get pounded by
- four or five in a row when my left foot hit the top of a coral head. I
- felt the Urchin spine go in and then it let go all of it's defender
- quills (the fragile, almost transparent kind) and it was instant pain.
- By the time I paddled out to a point where I could lift my foot up to
- check it, my whole foot was turning blue. I pulled out the black ones
- (10 or so) and tried to shine on the fifty or so others. I proceeded to
- surf for another two hours with an almost numb foot. I didn't go in and
- do what everyone who I've told this story to says I should have (have
- your wife peece on it brah) so now It was so swollen I couldn't walk on
- it. Well as anyone who has ever had this happen to will tell you can't
- get them out, and if you dig, you risk the chance of infection. Soaking
- in vinegar makes the skin pucker and they either fall out in a week or
- so or dissolve in two-three weeks.
-
- My worst injury (while getting to the surf) happened at Steamer Lane
- when I was about ten. This was pre-Stairs days when you either jumped
- off the cliff at High tide right above the blow hole or climbed down
- the asbestos fire hose where the wood stairs are now. My hands were
- small and I couldn't grip the hose that well and fell almost all the
- way to the rocks below and landed with my leg twisted under my ass.
- Needless to say I didn't surf and was out of commission for a couple
- months. After I healed whenever I surfed there I always jumped off the
- cliff and paddled around to Cowels to go in.
-
-
- To be Continued ......
-
- ....Bud
- --
- Bud Carlson * System Manager * Paradise Isle Computing * bud@isle.pegasus.com
-
- We have met the enemy, and he is us.
- -- Walt Kelly
-