++ [ originally posted by River ] ++
Segio how could you get that beat up at 18?
Sports.
I was playing 3 sports year-round.
Baseball, Basketball, American Football.
My body started betraying me at 15, when I was playing basketball and I went up for a dunk, and some asshole deliberately undercut me, and I landed with my leg straight down onto the court. Shredded my left knee. A year after the surgery, I injured my right knee playing football, so I gave that up after my second surgery, and stuck to just baseball. That's when I broke my collarbone diving over a fence to make a catch. Made the catch, but landed on pavement on my shoulder, thereby breaking my collarbone.
The concussions were sprinkled in there among my injuries, and the rotator cuff injury happened about 4 years ago pitching in a summer league. The back surgery was inevitable because my body took a pounding. Amazingly, at my age, I feel better now than I ever have in the past 17 years.