I Won’t be a Professional Wii Tennis Player…

My Career Ending Wii Accident

I was quite pleased with myself as I hit ‘publish’ yesterday and uploaded my ideas on training men… I knew that women would get a kick out of it and that the men would sputter… I appreciated all of the comments via this site, Twitter, texts, and email that y’all sent me, confirming that I was definitely onto something!!

I left my post here at the computer to spend some ‘together time’ with my son who was begging me to play Wii Tennis. The Wii is new to our household and we all totally love it. I should have known better than to take part in an interactive video experience, well… considering my own clumsiness and all…

But who could resist? Wii is FUN! And as I’m finding out as I get better and better, the Wii gets better with you! The first night we had the Wii, I worked myself into a sweaty frenzy playing Tennis and woke up the next morning with a very sore right arm!

Yesterday was no different, I started playing against my son in a heated battle of Wii Tennis. I was strutting my stuff and serving with amazing top spin… I was ahead 40-0 and serving for game point. I decided to REALLY blast the ball past my son (who is an amazing Wii Tennis player in his own right, far better than ol’ Mom) by jump serving.

Uh… thats where the s*$%t hit the fan, literally… See, I’m 5’10. We have 8 foot ceilings. With a ceiling fan. When I jumped and swung to serve the ball, my right hand hit the ceiling fan with ALL OF ITS MIGHT! I shattered the light fixture, broke off the head, cap, and who knows what else with my downswing!

TALK ABOUT PAIN…

It all happened so fast it didn’t even register in my mind what had happened. Thank God the blades of the ceiling fan didn’t also coming crashing down from the ceiling! I dropped to the ground screaming, as I truly believed I had broken my hand. Whatever I hit, I had hit with all of the strength I could muster and the impact had hit my middle and ring fingers square on… The ring finger was a bloody mess of hanging skin and the middle finger turned blue instantly… I was crying, my son was crying, and he ran to the phone and called Daddy, who was showing cattle out on the ranch.

With a truck full of visitors, he asked me, “What happened!!?!?! Are you okay? How did you get hurt?” to which I cried, “Playing tennis…” “Wii Tennis”… he chuckled and automatically told his visitors in spanish, “we have to turn around and go to the house so I can check on my wife who just fell playing Wii”… I heard their roar of laughter. I said, “no, I didn’t fall. I hit the ceiling fan”… More laughter…

He arrived to check on me and found me holding my fingers and crying, sitting in a pile of shattered light bulbs and fixtures. It looked like a war zone. After assessing that I hadn’t broken any bones just probably sprained 2 fingers, he got me some ice and gave me some Advil and set me on the couch to calm down. The pain was so bad that I was trembling and my teeth were chattering like I was in shock, which has only ever happened to me the day I went into labor.

This morning I have a black finger and the other is starting to scab and go down in swelling but I’m fine. As for my Wii Tennis career? I think I’ll hang up my controller forevermore. It was a shortlived tennis career for this old lady!