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The Weird World of Injuries

About a month ago I smacked my knee end on into a rock as I was descending a scrubby, rocky hill side in the Port Hills. Its not the first time Ive punished this knee. Two years ago I smashed the same knee at full up swing force into a…
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nice little branch end of a hard Australian tree stump. Learnt my lesson there....unlike NZ the air is drier in Australia and the fallen trees dry out rather than rot so you cant just run through them like back home....Also dont trust the opinion of a Doctor at a student health centre. Two weeks after it happened he gave me this advice: put some ice on it, take some anti-inflammitories and the swelling should go down in a couple of hours.... Yeah right! it took 3 full months for the swelling to go away completely. But the strangest injury of…

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