Competition preparation? Just ask me...!

[Mark_B.]

Hey ho, two weeks before the ETCC I had a half inch splinter of Ivy removed from my thumb today. It spent the last month jammed between the two nerve strands running up the side and the middle of the thumb. I.. well, I guess I hoped it'd pop out by it's own accord...

More fool me. The surgeon said: "Keep you hand quiet for ten days.", and I said: "Are you sh**ing me?!" Aaaargh. Not your classic run-up to a big comp!

So, I'm going to be very Zen. I'm going to visualise footlocking, visualize workclimb, visualise... well, you get the picture.

The lesson? Ivy is not good stuff to insert into you thumb.

 

[stevebullman]

wow, never heard of anyone getting a splinter from ivy before!
good luck mate

 

[Mark_B.]

Yes, that's right Steve, rub it in... now I feel really good. You saying I'm a chump?!

Well hold on, you might have a point there, come to think of it... I'd never heard of it before either.

A bit like getting a splinter from a... fern, maybe?

 

[JesseHuffman]

I once went to break a small peice of bamboo... without gloves.
Bout took my damn finger off.
Watch out for this stuff... yikes!

 

[stevebullman]

hehe. must have been a bit of dead ivy i guess? that stuff can be pretty unforgiving.

 

[Mark_B.]

... you're telling me ?!

 

[Mark_B.]

Well, I suppose it could have been worse: it could have rooted !

 

[SpaceGhost]

Could we be seeing some black rubberized Treemagineers super-gloves in the near future?

Those would look really cool with my TreeMotion.

 

[pancake]

TreeMotion? Aren't those on backorder until 2011?

 

[SpaceGhost]

Of many things it is capable of time travel, but not ivy protection.

Fern protection, maybe.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

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Well, I suppose it could have been worse: it could have rooted !

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Thanks!!! Now I have to clean the spewed beer off the monitor

Heal fast...you could still competer unless the Doc is there for gear check.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Not great timing Mark! Best of luck.