My Finger

On friday in sport we were playing Fitball-Basketball. Thats where you play basket ball with one of those bit fitness balls. Anyway, I hit the ball and my finger must have bent some way it wasn't ment to, cause it really hurt.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with it, it just really hurt, so I kept playing. It wasn't till I was back in the change rooms that I actually looked at it and realised it was swelling really badly.

You probably think its slightly wierd that I got injured and didn't even look at it. But I just expected it too stop hurting and be fine in 5 minutes. And there was only another 10 minutes of class so it wasn't till it was still hurting after that I decided there was something wrong with it.

I had an ice pack on it for all of lunch and then I went to maths. I couldn't write and it was still really hurting (and I hate maths) so I went home. I had my fingers bandaged together for the rest of riday and mmost of Saturday. By Saturday night they were feeling a lot better, thogh they were still swollen and a fairly impressive shade of purple, and I had to face a really hard decision - band.

I'm in senior band. And senior band has Sunday rehersals. Mac likes to remind us constantly that these Sunday rehersals are fairly essential. We do so much more work on Sundays because we aren't all tired and silly. We consentrate more and just sound better. So it was just my luck that the Sunday my finger was recovering we had a band rehersal.

I went and I played. My finger seemed to be coping OK, but it was starting to hurt more by the end of the 3 hour rehersal. I turned out that it was a really bad idea to go to band because by Sunday night my finger was hurting tons again and the swelling had gotten worse. But it's getting better again now and I hope that this time I'll help it to stay better.