take this broken wing

About 4 minutes into tonight's indoor soccer game, I found myself splayed out on my front and in excruciating pain.  I had just tried to perform a very clever turn up against the wall.  Instead of executing it flawlessly like all those ambiguously foreign men in YouTube football videos, I tripped over something (probably my own feet) and went hurtling towards the ground. 

My arms flew out in front of me instinctively, trying to brace me against the fall.   I had so much forward momentum, however, that they just slid forward until my face nearly planted on the turf.  I felt my left shoulder pop, and then I felt an explosion of pure, unadulterated ouchie. 

I mean... ow.  I've hurt stuff before, but this was the most disconcerting feeling I've ever experienced.  It was so much of a feeling so unexpected and so very wrong... I just didn't know how to process it.

After two seconds real-world time (2 minutes of freaked out Elaina swimming through an ocean of pain time), I knew I had to haul myself off the field.  As I straightened up, I felt another pop.  The pure, unadulterated ouchie subsided and was replaced with a strange "jibbly" sort of sensation... one that has been steadily growing into constant, aching pain all around my shoulder.  Moving it hurts.  Not moving it sorta hurts too.  I'm no doctor... but I think I dislocated my little wing.   :0( 

Ortho... ho!