I have a couple of episodes...
I was on my way home on my bicycle after visiting a friend. It was late and the town I live in USUALLY don't have much traffic at night. I'm a good biker. I follow the rules and don't do wrong. The roads I take don't have much traffic either. Except this one road with a really small roundabout on my route.
I wanted to get home fast so I didn't really bother looking for cars, so I just drove over the middle. Usually you can hear if any cars are coming. This time I didn't hear it until it was too late. A car came from my right but LUCKILY saw my misdeed and reacted fast enough. I had to brake really hard while still in the middle. I felt really stupid afterwards. It could easily have gone really wrong.
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Another very stupid thing I did is something I regret every day. My favourite sport is volleyball and I'm fairly good at it. At the time, I was training my smash because I had some trouble with it but I was getting better every training.
Then this one time at work, we were a couple of boys doing boy stuff. One of them asked if anyone of us could do pushups while upside down. "Of course I can!" So I proceeded in trying to do it but I dislocated my right shoulder horribly. I didn't know at the time, though, and I probably tore some ligaments, too.
From then on I probably dislocated my shoulder every 2 trainings and I had to take several weeks of break after each dislocation because my shoulder was hurting for several weeks. Each time I was able to get my shoulder back in position. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was hard and really hurt. Each time, though, I was unable to use my shoulder for weeks.
After 15+ dislocations, I had surgery. August 20., 2008. Convalescence was about 6 months (meaning this February) before I could use my shoulder 100 %. Otherwise I might damage the ligaments. While I'm overly happy I had surgery, my doctor told me that I had damaged the head of the humerus because of my many dislocations which might cause my shoulder to freeze if in extreme angles - something required in many sports. Therefore he advised me not to play volleyball again. Or any other sports that involved the shoulder such as handball, badminton, tennis, throwing etc. So goodbye to the only sport I really liked. I'm going to try to build my muscles around my shoulder, though, and eventually try some volleyball.
BUT I absolutely hate the fact that I'm scared to use my shoulder for anything now. And I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I'm scared that I will dislocate it again. I just hate the sound, the vibrations a dislocation creates in the whole body. And when you push it back into location, argh. It's disgusting and I get the creeps just thinking about it.
All this suffering and discomfort for 5 seconds of foolishness, I hate myself for it. Even more so because I have a twin brother who has NO problems with his shoulder. It makes me face all the things I will never do. Every day.