08-07-2025, 07:52 AM
(08-06-2025, 10:17 PM)pickrollflickgoal Wrote: I once got hit in the face by one of those footballs you played indoor 5-a-side with. You know the felt covered ones that looked like huge tennis balls.
I wasn't expecting it as the game had finished and some prick decided it would be funny to smack this ball into a group of us talking after a game.
I could hardly see as the ball skimmed across my eye and shrugging it off despite the pain, then unable to sleep developing a black eye off to A&E I went.
They managed to peel my eye lids open and some gadget showed that the surface of my eyeball had been damaged and there were thousands of fibres that
needed to be flushed out. 12 months of special eye drops and I was something back to normal.
I had similar playing water polo. Ball skidded off the surface and hit me in the mush at about a trillion miles an hour. Like I had an angry wasp in my eye for about a month and looked like an extra from 28 days later!

