A long time ago, say junior year for example, I busted my thumb up pretty bad playing flag football in the South 40 Olympics. I went to grab someone's flag, but they ran right by me and into my thumb, which made a sick cracking sound and hurt like hell. Later that day, for reasons I still can't quite understand, I attempted to play basketball but had to stop due to the shooting pain that would go down my arm every time I tried to shoot. My thumb was probably broken, as I couldn't really move it for awhile, and if not it was definitely severely sprained, but I chose to go with the "let it heal itself" method of medicine. As such, it took about 2 months to feel like normal again and it never did feel right after that.

Fast forward to this morning at 9 AM basketball. My opponent whom I was guarding decided to launch a pass as hard as they could right past me, but one of my jobs is of course to intercept said pass. I got my hand up in time but...I'm sure you can see where this story is going...I only managed to deflect it with my thumb, which once again made a bad sound and hurt like hell.

This is bad, since our softball playoffs start on Thursday (the entire regular season was rained out), and it's hard to throw a softball if I can't move my thumb. Luckily it doesn't seem to be sprained/broken as badly as before, and perhaps it will reheal better than it did the first time, but if not I need a quick heal-all. If anyone has any home remedies, magic potions, psychic healing powers, or anything that could be of use, please let me know.

The fate of the CS softball team could hang in the balance.