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August 25, 2006

Beats the heck out of "Nintendo Thumb."

Dude plays the Guitar Hero video game. Gets really into it. Blows out his knee. Here's his story:

It was the late evening of July 3rd. I had just arrived home from a Thor concert here in Omaha and needless to say after that bone crushing rock I was ready to roll. I strapped on that plastic guitar and ripped through No One Knows, Heart Full of Black and More Than A Feeling and then it was time. I was face to face with my Arch Nemesis/Very Good Friend/Roommate Craig. It was time to see who could out rock each other while playing Texas Flood.

We were neck in neck in points... I had to do something special. I needed STYLE points. I breathed deep, my rock meter was maxed out and I was going to make this audience feel it. I twisted to the right and threw my guitar in the air! Instead of a roaring audience I heard a loud snap! My knee slid to the outside of my leg and my leg bent sideways as I fell to the ground.

. . .

I had knocked an inch and a half piece of bone off of my femur under my knee. I needed knee surgery the next day.

. . . .

The day after surgery a "Legasus" machine was brought to my house, which I would sit in for six hours a day as it bent my knee back and forth. I am still in this machine over four weeks later for six hours a day. Thats 42 hours in the Legasus a week. That is more than a full time job.

I am grateful that I have not yet developed bedsores from the amount of lying around I have done.

. . . .

I was later informed by one of the doctors that the piece of bone broken in my leg was the largest he'd ever seen.

From an open letter the guy wrote to the gamemaker:

while playing your game on July 3rd and shredding a massive lick I pivoted into a great thrashing stance and my knee gave way. After several doctor visits and x-rays it later turned out my rocking had knocked an inch and a half piece of bone off of my knee and it was now floating about the inside of my leg.

I ended up going under the knife to reattach the smaller piece of bone back to my leg and now, more than a month later, I am still unable to walk.

I don't know whether this is hardcore or just damned pathetic. I do know, however, that this injury kicks the crap out of Lionel Simmons's old "Nintendo Thumb" injury that kept him sidelined for a few games back when he was with the Sacramento Kings.

Yes, I know very few people know who I'm talking about. I know my audience. It still needed to be said, though.

Posted by YMB Staff at August 25, 2006 07:00 AM