January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

criticize (Massimo and Angelo, too). I was just wise cracking. Teasing you. I've
broken bones in my hands also. The middle knuckle on my right hand the worst and
at a young age I already have arthritis in it. I've probably had six concussions
from contact sports, broken my wrists four times, fractured my skull, various
knee injuries, and damaged a disc in my lower spine. I had one leg injury where
I was on crutches for a year. I have some allergies and I had a discharge once
that.....oops. |
|7/26/05 12:18:37 AM|steve |nj||na||||10|Kent and Noam ,Scrape Iron Johnson,a
badass top twenty fighter during the late sixties and early seventies.Would you
put your coming up fighter in with him?|
|7/26/05 01:11:57 AM|steve |nj||na||||10|Kent,check out Les Woephle's record,if
you can.He was a fair to middling heavywieght in the P.A.L. PROGRAM, in the
early sixties.Not a nice man.Then he went to Vietnam.He's a friend of mine.I
think.|
|7/26/05 01:23:54 AM|steve |nj||na||||10|Noam,you sound like a pretty tough
troop.Have you been in the Military?If so,give me your unit.I know you didn't
get that many broken bones in civilian life!|
|7/26/05 01:42:11 AM|steve |NJ||NA||||10|Kent,man,are you right!Just because you
win a fight ,doesn't mean you didn't get hit hard,and hurt!you will be so sore
you don't wan't to get out of bed.When you do get up ,your usually pissing
blood.|
|7/26/05 04:18:17 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Steve - the most painful injury I got
was one I forgot to mention - a dislocated right shoulder. When it happened the
whole arm went numb from the neck down and I honestly thought that my arm had
somehow been pulled off and was no longer there. I opened my eyes, saw it was
still there, but I couldn't move my fingers or bend the elbow. And when I
realized the arm WAS there, that's when it HURT. I shoulda kept my damn eyes
shut. I've never felt pain like it. Give me a broken wrist any time. The loss of
control of the arm really shocked me, too, and was a terrible sensation and
traumatic by itself. I wouldn't let them put it back in without a
needle.Concussions from knocks to the head are different almost every
time. Some times you're conscious but you are dizzy and have a headache and
later become very nauseous and vomit. Bright lights make it worse. Other times
you are fully awake and look okay to those around you but you don't recall a
thing about the incident. You remember nothing at all and there is no pain. It's
just like a period of time in your life never happened.The worst thing
about getting a hiding in a fight is usually not the pain of a black eye or
bleeding nose or whatever. It's the physical exhaustion and the pain in your
lungs. If you keep fighting when someone is beating you, you spend every last
bit of energy and air in your lungs and having nothing left and being virtually
defenseless is the most awful feeling. It hurts to breath and even
blink.Ever been punched on the ear ? That is painful too. You can't bear
to touch it. You can't sleep with that side of the head on the pillow. I'd
rather have tooth ache.Water on the knee is also painful. I began
getting that playing golf. A bug was annoying me while I was trying to play a
shot. So I hit the bug with my nine iron. Problem was the bug was on my right
knee. It blew up all swollen and the doctor had to drain it with a needle. That
hurt. It also felt like there were small crystals in the knee and when you moved
it there was excruciating pain. I'll put up with the bug next time.The
four broken wrists I got, one was at home when I was about five years old. My
sister promised to catch me if I jumped from a balcony. She lied. The other
three breaks were from sports. My memory is that apart from the first one, the
other three breaks didn't hurt much. The broken right knuckle was from
punching the wrong part of someone's head. I got his forehead and not his nose
and it drove my big knuckle back into my hand. If you do it enough, the knuckle
becomes very hardened, much harder than before, and swells right up. The nerves
around it seem to die over time and that big knuckle makes a punch much more