UGH!

Some of you know the mountain I had to climb to get back into this sport. Well--seems I might be close to tossing my final caber.

I just had a tune-up weekend with some friends and as I thought-my injuries aren't as healed as I had hoped. My ripped hamstring that once was healed is now pulled and might need surgery. I have a compressed disc that has nerve implications in my leg that is now being tested and evaluated. My shoulder which I've repearedly torn now may need surgery to keep from dislocating under pressure...and finally, my wired/pinned and surgically repaired knee still offers no stability to plant, spin or pivot.

Lads I might be done--I can't believe I'm saying it. My plan is to finish all the evaluations and do the rehab--then see if I can at least compete at 75% at a few games this year.

Note that very few of these injuries occured competing in Highland Athletics--these are the consequences of a life enjoyed :-)

At least--if this is my final year, I can still say that at 5'7", 190#s, I screwed up the courage--did the work--kilted up and did what many only wish they could do as they watch from the other side of the rope.

People may say--yep--he was too small to do this...

But then they'd be wrong--I DID do it.