Occupational hazard of larping.

[saxikath]

Having a physical in the week after an event and trying to explain why your knees and shins are so bruised. :)

"No one's beating on you?"
"Well..."

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[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

It's good that they ask these things, though :-)

Yeah, hitting people with padded sticks is a little hard to explain.

[saxikath]

Yes, it is good that they ask. It was amusing to try to explain in this case, though.

[olivine-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I once went to the hospital during an event because I fell face first onto a log, and all the energy of the falling went to my teeth. Carl took me there at about midnight. Carl, who looks like....carl....

They immediately separated us, and kept questioning me about if there was something else I really wanted to tell them. They were convinced my battering boyfriend was bringing me to the hospital...

[saxikath]

Oh, man, I can picture that. I can see why they'd've been worried!

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

I was in a car crash a few years ago. I wasn't badly hurt, but much of the skin on my face was scraped off by the airbag. A few days after the accident,I went to the Someday with my friend Matt - everybody we passed looked at him like he was some type of dirt bag. I briefly considered saying, "No, he doesn't him me; I went into a Jersey barrier, that's all," but quickly realized that would probably only make things worse.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I have to ask -- did you tell the doctor about LARPing?

[saxikath]

In brief and in very broad strokes, yes. "It's this thing. It involves what's basically swordfighting, using padded foam weapons. It's a contact sport."

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

When you say things like "It's great exercise" they tend to be a lot more understanding.

[saxikath]

Yes, especially when my doctor is as happy as she is about my general increase in exercise.

[cnoocy]

There's a great scene in Squire by Tamora Pierce in which the main character (who is the first woman to publicly train as a squire in a century) has to convince a group of women at the public baths that her bruises are a normal result of her training.

[tenwii.livejournal.com]

I alert my doctors immediately for this reason. When I was in treatments too, I would bruise REALLY easily. They'd go to put the IV in and be like WTF girl?!

Carl looks like a nice person!

J

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Along these lines, I wonder how often doctors encounter what appear to be clear signs of physical or sexual abuse (and which in a sense are) but which are in fact entirely consensual. I imagine this could be quite a headache for devotees of such activities.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

I had some odd questions like that about "scarring" near my waistline, 'round the back, that my doc noticed during my high school physical.

After I looked at him strangely, not even sure why he was asking this, he suddenly realized they were stretch marks. I've got 'em all around the waist and knees from all the rapid growth in my teens. (It might have been when he saw the ones on my knees that the bell rang in his head.)