From the it-could-be-worse files

[sigma7]

Still sick. Still coughing. Not enjoying. But apparently sports are there to remind me that at least my jugular carotid artery's intact, unlike NHL player Richard Zednik, who took a skate to the neck tonight -- shades of Malarchuk indeed. Zednik's had surgery and is stable tonight, though.

(For the brave, I link to the YouTube, but only because the quality is such that you can't really see the blood.)

Comments

[kitblonde.livejournal.com]

This is so weird...yesterday, I was watching the Flyers game and a linesman took a skate to the face. I think he needed something like 80 stitches. One of those amazing 5-on-5 fights broke out immediately after the hip-check that led to the skate-face meeting, so I was a little busy screaming for blood at first to notice that, holy hell, there's actual blood! For this to happen the next day...man. Weird.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Dude...there were injuries yesterday in basketball (a supposedly no-contact sport...hello, that's why there are fouls) where one of the women's basketball team members got a cut on her arm and Michael Beasley had to be gauzed because something inside his mouth was bleeding. I was like good god this is ugly.