At least I didn't get sunburned

As I got on I-15 heading for ultimate frisbee at Murray Park, I realized I'd forgotten to put on suncreen.  It was a sunny Saturday morning, and if we played well past 12:00 as expected, I could expect to burn a little.

As it tuned out, I didn't have to worry about that.  Chasing Ellis down ten minutes into the game, I somehow couldn't keep my feet in front of me and I hit the ground.  I tried to roll but I was too slow and came down hard on my right shoulder.  It felt like my shoulder exploded with pain.  I knew immediately that this was not a shake-it-off-and-keep-playing pain.  When I could stand, I headed off the field, answering "No" to the players asking if I was okay.  At least one looked skeptical; it probably was not a very impressive fall.

I headed for the IHC instacare about 9000 S and 700 E.  It took half an hour with the construction-retarded traffic.  I got an ice pack there, but they told me they wouldn't take my Blue Cross insurance and besides, they had an hour plus wait.  So I called down to the BCBS instacare on 123rd S and they only had a 15 minute wait.  I headed down.

To make a long story short, I waited, they took some x-rays, I waited some more, and they concluded that nothing was broken but I had an AC separation, and put a sling on me.  That was about 11:45, 1.5 hours after the injury with the worst pain I can remember.  (Damn IHC.)

I took the babysitter home.  Rachel was at a bridal shower and had left her phone on the counter.  (She didn't know the babysitter had her own.)  I was hoping to avoid more driving, which hurt, but at 1:15 Rachel was still not home and the pain was driving me crazy, so I dropped the kids off at our neighbor's -- Rachel had the car seats -- and left to pick up my lortab.

Rachel got home before I did.  "Where are the kids?"  "At the neighbor's."  "What?!"  Rachel sounded pissed.  I think she thought I must have told the babysitter to leave them there so I could play more frisbee, so I quickly told her what happened.

Today there's a lot less pain as long as I'm careful not to move it at all.  I'm going to see a specialist tomorrow and see how long I'll be in this sling.