Dumb-bell...15:15 Aug 09 2008
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Last night, I went to a workout at my friends gym after work.
This is a guy who went from 320lbs to 210lbs in just under two years.
He is really up on nutrition and knows a lot of the exercises to develop specific muscle groups.
He's given me advice on my diet and during the session, was showing me some new ways to train.
I did a full upper body, with anterior, traps, lateral, deltoids, biceps, triceps, pecs and some abs.
I hurt now and it's only just starting.
But, we didn't get to finish the full session...
I'm working away and don't notice that he's gone off to the changing room.
After a while, he comes back, looking very grey in the face. I thought he was about to pass out, so got him to sit down. I thought he'd done his groin or some such thing.
Oh no, that would be less painful, I think.
I take in a few things, such as the blood drops on the floor, then the blood-smeared bell weights.
Finally, he lifts his hand up to show me what he's done.
He brought together two 20lb steel bells, exactly like these:
And subsequently mashed his finger between them, like so:
This picture was taken after he pushed the tip back into line, since it was almost at a right-angle.
We went to A&E, where we sat for some considerable time, being Friday night, x-rays and the like, before he gets told that the bone is shattered in there. Totally mashed.
Apparently, when he did it, he thought he'd lost his finger, hence the grey face, when blood actually squirted three feet across the floor.
He didn't cry out, didn't even cry when he god his jabs, bless him, but mostly because he was so embarrassed.
The gym has all these big ripped Polish guys there, and he was ashamed of his misfortune.
We eventually got it fixed up, sometime after midnight and went and got a KFC mega-bucket to salve his pain. Didn't work. Neither did the Xbox, since he can't use the controller now.
Better though, was after we got picked up by a friend to go get KFC, we got stopped by the cops...before spending another hour looking for painkillers at an all-night store.
Eventually got dropped of and sat down close to 1.30am, bearing in mind we had both been at work since early and hadn't eaten, and had a serious workout.
We demolished the KFC and proceeded to watch sci-fi until falling asleep. At least he will get some sympathy from his lady friend, because I had very little. Mocking is the order of the day. Especially on Monday at work, where our resident super-fast touch typist will be out of action on what may be the busiest day of our year so far.
I would probably just not go in, because my shame would be too great and besides, what use is a IT guy who can't type? lol
COMMENTS
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Oceanne
15:45 Aug 31 2008
Kindof like a big whirlpool,always swirling and trying to suck you in.
deathnitegrl
15:49 Aug 31 2008
It can be tough sometimes, so while I was debating somewhere else stuff happened, I always miss'em >.
Morrigon
16:09 Aug 31 2008
And there I was, thinking about New Orleans and what my favorite kind of pie is...
queenmorbid
16:17 Aug 31 2008
Too true, Stabb!
Nightgame
04:10 Sep 02 2008
I wish we could just zap them into their very own episode of When the Stomach Churns, and let them sink or swim silently.
BubbleGumClaudia
05:23 Sep 09 2008
It gives me a headache much worse than the one I have now
even though that ignorant fucks like to try and start shit some of us always make them out to look like dumb asses!
Vampirewitch39
22:06 Sep 11 2008
*sighs and reads this again* Ok.... give me something new, would ya? Or I am hitting the poems again. :)