Remember that memorable scene in Syriana when Clooney’s character is tortured and his nails are removed by pliers? Well that happened to me last night but only it happened to my left toe. I was training and grappled/wrestled for a good 20 minutes. Besides the normal pain from neck cranks and leglocks, everything was good. Then about 3 hours later, I look at my feet and noticed that one of my toes looked weird. I looked at it closely and the nail was pretty much hanging from my toe. It took me a good 5 minutes to remove it. At first, I tried doing it by hand, that didn’t work. Then I tried the nail cutter and that worked. Surprisingly, it didn’t hurt as bad as I thought but then again, I did it carefully. Now I can see my skin where the nail should be. I’m thinking it probably tore as I was grappling. 1st self pwnage.

Then today I played basketball and the toe didn’t really hurt. I would limp once in a while but my airballs and bricks were still consistent. So it was the last game and this was serious business. I lost most of the games I played before that so I wanted to win badly. We were whooping ass but the other team was gaining momentum. They miss a shot and I try to grab a rebound. BAM! The ball lands on my left pinky and it hurt like hell. I didn’t let anyone know since I couldn’t let my opponents take advantage of it. A couple of plays later, I try to grab another rebound, this time with my right hand. And guess what? It lands on my right pinky. This one hurt didn’t hurt as much. Then I look at my hand and it somewhat, looked like this, only mine was the pinky and the top joint was facing outwards:

FUCK, self pwnage #2. I was freaking out and didn’t want to go to the hospital. It was one of the nastiest things I’ve seen in my life.  The picture doesn’t do it justice, especially when it’s your own finger.  Instinctively, I snap it back in place and I could hear several pops. After that, I was done. I was still in shock afterwards. I call X-Man(Mr. Baller) afterwards and see if I should go to the doctor. He said it has happened to him before and he didn’t go to the doctor. It took about 2 weeks to heal. When I get home, I was eating like crazy. I was grabbing all the food I saw on the table and from the fridge. You would have thought I was smoking weed beforehand. In reality it was because I was really weak from the pain and needed to revitalize. So to you guys that don’t have any injuries, be grateful. It fucking sucks walking with a limp and not having a grip with both of your hands – I never knew the pinky is so damn important.

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