Netball is bad for your health
Mar 16th 2004, 8:31 am
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Netball is bad for your health
Well, this week was supposed to be meeting people and making some friends week while looking for a p/t job...
with this (and my expanding waistline and arse) in mind i trotted off in my new shorts, t-shirt and trainers (which cost a bomb - clothes ain't cheap out her) to join the council netball team.#
it was all very different to what i remember from school 12 years ago - 6 players, 2 defence, 2 attack and 2 links (centres as far as i can work out), 4 periods of 8 minutes and evrything gos ata frantic pace leading to scotrelines in the 30s/40s.
but willing to have a go, into the fray i plunged - ran about a bit wondering who was on my team, and which way we wetre going when some nutter decided to pass me the ball - it hit my thumb, bending it back. not wanting tio be a wuss, i played on for another 16 minutes - even touching the ball at times, and then went down the pub to showe willing. drove home one handed as my thumb had ballooned and hurt like buggery.
Spent 2 1/2 hours in a+e - same set up as the nhs - no staff too many pateientds and i am now one-handed ?(as you may have guessed from the typing) with suspected major ligament damage. seeing gp tomorrow for an update - fingers crossed it is just a severe sprain or i am buggered for months.
i knew i should have stuck to sitting in the pub!
apart from that life istill good - feeling a bit lonely at times when on my own duribg the day but met up with i girl i met online today who is nice aND THERE IS AN EXPATS BBQ on thurdsayso that will mean meeting people. was invited to a winetasting evening tonight and rewaally enjoyed it - nice people too- and kiwis which is great.
and i am being good kiwi housewife by making a ginormous lasagne 90% of whivch hAS been frozen for the future - very proud of that lasagne i am - i wasa going to attemp banana muffins today but having only a fintional left hsnd spoilyt that thst idea.
with this (and my expanding waistline and arse) in mind i trotted off in my new shorts, t-shirt and trainers (which cost a bomb - clothes ain't cheap out her) to join the council netball team.#
it was all very different to what i remember from school 12 years ago - 6 players, 2 defence, 2 attack and 2 links (centres as far as i can work out), 4 periods of 8 minutes and evrything gos ata frantic pace leading to scotrelines in the 30s/40s.
but willing to have a go, into the fray i plunged - ran about a bit wondering who was on my team, and which way we wetre going when some nutter decided to pass me the ball - it hit my thumb, bending it back. not wanting tio be a wuss, i played on for another 16 minutes - even touching the ball at times, and then went down the pub to showe willing. drove home one handed as my thumb had ballooned and hurt like buggery.
Spent 2 1/2 hours in a+e - same set up as the nhs - no staff too many pateientds and i am now one-handed ?(as you may have guessed from the typing) with suspected major ligament damage. seeing gp tomorrow for an update - fingers crossed it is just a severe sprain or i am buggered for months.
i knew i should have stuck to sitting in the pub!
apart from that life istill good - feeling a bit lonely at times when on my own duribg the day but met up with i girl i met online today who is nice aND THERE IS AN EXPATS BBQ on thurdsayso that will mean meeting people. was invited to a winetasting evening tonight and rewaally enjoyed it - nice people too- and kiwis which is great.
and i am being good kiwi housewife by making a ginormous lasagne 90% of whivch hAS been frozen for the future - very proud of that lasagne i am - i wasa going to attemp banana muffins today but having only a fintional left hsnd spoilyt that thst idea.
Mar 16th 2004, 9:18 am
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Ahhhhhhh! Hope it's not too serious and better soon!!!
I played netball years ago too, I only remember I was reasonably good at defence. For the rest I don't remember rules. In WA we called the ones in the middles centres I think. Was it all WA, WD, ok, don't remember anymore!
Typing's alright for someone with one hand!
I played netball years ago too, I only remember I was reasonably good at defence. For the rest I don't remember rules. In WA we called the ones in the middles centres I think. Was it all WA, WD, ok, don't remember anymore!
Typing's alright for someone with one hand!
Mar 16th 2004, 6:41 pm
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I PLAY NETBALL......
i love it to..... its fun..... i even got player of the match once...lol..... but never received it again???????
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i love it to..... its fun..... i even got player of the match once...lol..... but never received it again???????
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Mar 16th 2004, 6:54 pm
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hi polly, hope you get better soon! I used to play neball but i always used to get stuck as goal keeper as I was always the tallest!
Mar 16th 2004, 6:56 pm
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i can not do anything that involves shooting. im uselesss lol......
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Mar 17th 2004, 3:39 am
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Still one handed as the doc put me in plaster! 
Apparently the ligaments should be OK without an operation but it is a 'very severe injury' and so has to be in plaster for probably two weeks while it all heals.
bummer - not allowed to drive
But at least we found out a bit about the NZ health provision.
My hospital visit was free as it was covered by ACC (a government fund that covers you for accidents as far as I can work out) and the GP appointment was subsidised by the same fund so cost $18 (although the drug prescription he gave me was $15 odd) Normally, if you were sick, a GP appointment would be $43.
At least at my GP's - I don't know if charges vary from doctor to doctor.
Apparently the ligaments should be OK without an operation but it is a 'very severe injury' and so has to be in plaster for probably two weeks while it all heals.
bummer - not allowed to drive
But at least we found out a bit about the NZ health provision.
My hospital visit was free as it was covered by ACC (a government fund that covers you for accidents as far as I can work out) and the GP appointment was subsidised by the same fund so cost $18 (although the drug prescription he gave me was $15 odd) Normally, if you were sick, a GP appointment would be $43.
At least at my GP's - I don't know if charges vary from doctor to doctor.
