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solitaireseven · 10 months ago

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The point stands that these guys are insane and also crazy and also being paid a lot, with access to way too many painkillers. However, I have played with a broken bone for about a month and it was awful but very doable. The stupid part is really the why. Just cause you can skate doesn't mean you should. My recovery took 30% longer and it hurt to do stuff like roll over in bed or walk, but there's so much value placed on being tough that I thought I was doing the right thing.

i could never be a hockey player. the second i get a tummy ache i'm curled up fetal position on the floor refusing to move. a broken BONE? i'm throwing myself down at centre ice and weeping. i'll need to be stretchered off. keep playing? overtime? the SHOOTOUT? with a BROKEN BONE? absolutely not. absolutely not. sorry to my team but i am, for all intents and purposes, legally dead.

#all about the team blah blah blah #guys it's a good thing if you could never ignore the VERY IMPORTANT signals that your body is sending you #I know we aren't being super serious here but the hockey psyche is soooo fucked up #I'm injured??? doesn't matter my pain isn't justified because we have a game to win #“oh yeah he was such a tough guy never complained”#what do you mean now his liver is fucked beyond belief from toradol abuse #What I'm saying is please stay legally dead with broken bones 🙏 they are in fact meant to keep you down #hockey players

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