No Big Deal

I was surfing Monday and in the typical style of my accidents I was doing something nonthreatening (getting out of the water) and cut my toe on a rock. Didn't think much of it until I washed it out at home and had a quarter inch crater that was deep and dark red. After 4 hour of sitting in the emergency room and another hour in a room by myself I received 2 stitches.

Now to those who have known me over the past few years; many of you have expressed your concern of my ability to be accident prone. So, being the end of 2010 I have decided to make a list of all the things which have happened to me in the past 10 years.

1. Summer 2003 - Hit by a broken toilet 3 days into a construction job. Result: 11 stitches and a 1 3/4 inch scar on my left arm

2. Summer 2003 - Right arm swells up to the point of limited movement, had to go to emergency room to receive shot and antibodies

3. Summer 2003 (1 place of accidents) Fell 12 feet head first to black top, managed to catch myself of the second myself on the second bounce. Result: temporary amnesia (3rd time in my life) for 4 or 5 hours, black eye, 2 broken wrists

4. Winter 2007 - Run over by a go-cart (one that does 70 mph), literally had to be pulled off of me after it wedged itself on the steering wheel and my leg. Cut on knee cap which bone was visible. Another aspect which I consider part of the trauma is Josh Griffin poking my freshly cleaned wound with his dirty hand so he could claim he touched a real knee cap. Result: 10 stitches on my right kneecap

5. Summer 2008 - Dressed like a giant jar of Jif Peanut Butter kicked a sound monitor into a face plant in front of 400 high school students. Result: my pride was killed.

6. Summer 2009 - Sun poisoned and dehydrated while working outside setting up for a Jr. High Event. Result: spent the night puking and unable to sleep on my back.

7. Winter 2010 - Board leash gets wrapped around my leg wave hits me forcing me to kick a rock trying to balance myself. Result: 2 stitches in big toe.


There might be more to this list, but this is all I could think off the top of my head.