Shudder, ice rink accidents chill me to the bone.
My best friend is a professional ice skater and competes for Australia in a Sycronised figure skating team (a team of about 20 girls who all do the same thing at the same time - sort of like the Holden Stormriders!) :mrgreen: They compete nationally and internationally.
Last year, I went away to Queenbeyan while she was away in Queensland for her National championships. I didn't have any reception while I was away, and on the way back I was greeted by a message on my voicemail. Stopping to listen to it, I found it was a message from my best friend telling me she'd been in an accident, and to call her ASAP.
She'd been skating in the official practice before the competition, and had taken a tumble during the program. The girl next to her had tripped, fallen, and in the process, taken off her pinky finger with her skate blade. :shock: Five hours of microsurgery and a whole heap of morphine later, they managed to re-attach it. It still doesn't bend the same.
