Protective Headgear

[kybearfuzz]

So the post-comic malaise, coined by the brilliant prisoncitybear as "post-artum depression," hasn't sunk in yet. Luckily, I think it's because I've been just so busy at work so far this week that I've not had the time.


Batting Helmet for Softball... Seriously...
After work, I crashed in a nap, then went shopping for the item above. I've not worn one of these in YEARS. When I saw my doctor a couple of weeks back, I asked him if my being on "blood thinners" would stop me from playing softball this year. The concern is that I bruise easier (which hasn't really happened so far) and that a sports injury could be more severe as a result.

He said I was cleared to play, even cleared to be catcher provided I was careful. In the discussions, he said something about my wearing a batting helmet. I laughed because it's slow pitch softball, but he quickly came back and said, "but there are still line drives right?" Having been struck by a couple of line drives over the years, I could see the danger in it. His concern was that if I were struck by a line drive in the head, it could be dangerous. So the agreement was that I would wear a batting helmet while in the infield as a precaution, but otherwise I was clear to play.

So after dinner, I drove and bought a batting helmet. Despite the way it looks, this is an adult helmet. I just have a fat head.

I feel like the special needs kid with a soft spot on his head that never healed. I may look foolish wearing it, but if I cared what people thought of me on the softball field after all the years of my screwing up, I'd never play again. That just ain't me.

Maybe I'll have the guys on the team write slogans on it, or maybe bedazzle it up. It's a gay league after all. If I have to wear the helmet, it should at least be fabulous.

Comments

[texwriterbear.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see the bedazzled up helmet!!!!

[mikiedoggie.livejournal.com]

I did get hit by a softball pretty hard a couple of years ago and it broke my nose in three places and I got a hairline fracture on my orbital, so a helmet probably makes some sense if you are on blood thinners. Goodness "nose" [rimshot], I probably would have bled out had I been on thinners when my nose broke. It was like Old Faithful the way it was gushing!

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

You don't look at all foolish, or like a
special needs kid.

Wearing that helmet is very sensible.

I knew a kid at summer camp who got whammed
in the head badly by a baseball and had to go
to the emergency room. It was scary. He was ok.

And these folks wear helmets, too:

[labeartorycub.livejournal.com]

I don't think you look foolish at all; in fact, you're being responsibly safe. Looking forward to seeing it all "bedazzled" up or whatever happens to it.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

May you make that helmet fabulous!

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

"Post artem depression" HA! Love it! May I use it?

Don't worry about having a "fat head"; I've got a big Irish mellon, myself. I'm afraid of going the route of Ted Kennedy where his head actually grew bigger as he got older.

You look tres Butch in your helmet. Besides, the "special needs" kids usually opt for hockey helmets. And no one laughs at you because of what you wear on the field; they're laughing at the way you throw.