Quotes About Injury

Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

What a doctor I've got—he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then he hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

I seek to harm myself, I expel myself from my paradise, busily provoking within myself the images (of jealousy, abandonment, humiliation) which can injure me; and I keep the wound open, I feed it with other images, until another wound appears and produces a diversion.

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Whatever Hoar's injury, he departed in gentlemanly fashion, sending Grant a gracious farewell note. In private, however, he broadcast his anger and "wished the government might be destroyed.

Aim for the side of the skull, which is softer and displaces the brain more.

you know much about head injuries?' 'only the ones I cause

The guy said, "If you'd taken that punch on the upper arm, you'd expect one hell of a bruise. Which is exactly what you got. Not on the outside. Not enough flesh. The bruise is on the inside. On your brain. With a twin across the hall, because your brain bounced from side to side in your skull like a goldfish in a test tube. What we call coup and contre-coup.

Reacher let him fall. He landed on the bricks outside the bag shop, one arm right and the other arm wrong, like a swastika. He was breathing. A little bubbly, from the blood in his throat. His nose was badly busted. Cheekbones, too, maybe. Some of his teeth were out. Upper row, mostly. His dentist's kid was going to be just fine for college.

and the back of his belt, because he was bleeding

cerebral contusion, contusio cerebri, in fact two, both coup and contre

Hackett had plenty of maxillary damage.

You have a cerebral contusion, in Latin contusio cerebri, in fact technically two, both coup and contre

Both of them had noses like spoiled eggplants. Both of them had two black eyes. Both of them had crusted blood on their lips. Neither one of them

They won't remember. They had an accident. They got all banged up. Their memories will be missing an hour or two. Retrograde amnesia, they call it. Fairly common, after physical trauma. If they don't die first, that is.

Look on the bright side," Dixon said. "Maybe you gave the guy a concussion. Maybe he doesn't remember who he is, let alone who you are.

Impaired trunk proprioception and deficits in trunk control have been shown to be predictors of knee injury (Zazulak et al 2007a, 2007b).

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison

My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes. "What is it?" Miss New Mexico checked to make sure her bra straps weren't showing. "N-nothing." Miss Ohio managed an awkward smile.

My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes.

Don't ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It's simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don't do it. Refer to it as Pain or don't call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?