It's late, after midnight, and I have just returned from the hospital in a sling. Let me back up first, and tell you what happened.
I was asked to fill in for a summer hockey match tonight, a once off, as I don't regularly play summer hockey, just its winter counterpart. Anyways, maybe 3 minutes into the game, I intercepted an errant pass mid field, and as I do, I went for a run towards goal. After dragging around the last defender, I was one on one against the goalkeeper. A quick shot on goal at the top of the circle (which missed by inches), which was fine, except the goalkeeper then proceeded to slide into me, after the shot, which sent me sprawling up in the air over him, and landing on my right shoulder.
After lying on the ground for a few seconds, my teammates came running over, to see if I was alright. I felt fine, a bit knocked around, but alright to play on. The look on my teams face said otherwise. I had a huge lump on top of my right shoulder, and was told by my teammates that it looked like I had dislocated it. So I reluctantly walked off the field. My shoulder wasn't hurting, so I figured it was just a lump, and wanted to stay and watch the rest of the match. The umpire from the previous game came up to me in the dugout, and said that I should definitely go to hospital and check it out, as it looked quite bad. At this point, one of my mates Charlie took a ball to the knee quite hard, and came limping off. He offered me a lift to the hospital, which I took.
I was asked to fill in for a summer hockey match tonight, a once off, as I don't regularly play summer hockey, just its winter counterpart. Anyways, maybe 3 minutes into the game, I intercepted an errant pass mid field, and as I do, I went for a run towards goal. After dragging around the last defender, I was one on one against the goalkeeper. A quick shot on goal at the top of the circle (which missed by inches), which was fine, except the goalkeeper then proceeded to slide into me, after the shot, which sent me sprawling up in the air over him, and landing on my right shoulder.
After lying on the ground for a few seconds, my teammates came running over, to see if I was alright. I felt fine, a bit knocked around, but alright to play on. The look on my teams face said otherwise. I had a huge lump on top of my right shoulder, and was told by my teammates that it looked like I had dislocated it. So I reluctantly walked off the field. My shoulder wasn't hurting, so I figured it was just a lump, and wanted to stay and watch the rest of the match. The umpire from the previous game came up to me in the dugout, and said that I should definitely go to hospital and check it out, as it looked quite bad. At this point, one of my mates Charlie took a ball to the knee quite hard, and came limping off. He offered me a lift to the hospital, which I took.