Basketball Injuries

I had substained some pretty bad injuries in my life so far. Till now, 100% resulted from basketball. Even National service din manage to hurt me the way basketball did, but I still persist in playing on. Dunno why, but the game just draws me to it.

I have been playing almost every week since graduation from sec 4. This sums up to approximately 700 games for the past 12 years excluding those played almost everyday during secondary school. For the past 12 years, I have been telling myself every week, I musnt injured myself... I simply cannot... but somehow it just happened.

The regular injuries include spraining of my ankles. Both left and right. Since then, I had always wore ankle guards during the games. Now the next one which I substained recently and currently is my left knee. It was knocked up pretty bad a year and a half ago. After doing few months of physio in TTSH, I could barely do a full squat till now. There is always an acute pain at my knee when I squat a toilet bowl. Now, dun ask me how I shit. A week ago, a ~18 yr old kid inflicted that very same knee again with the same injury. Now it's back to square one of physio... sighhhh........

Anyway, here are some of my near miss injuries:
1) My team mate knocked me out for 10sec with his shoulder beneath my jaw when he jumped. *Imagine if my tongue was between my teeth.*
2) My 1.9m team mate elbowed my left eye causing my eye to internal bleed. Luckily my plastic specs protected it, else I mite have a cornea tear.
3) Knocked right in the face by a basketball at close proximity. My specs could have eyes blind if my eyelids aint quick enough.

Minor Injuries
1) Bleeding Scratches over hand and bodies.
2) Swollen joint at fingers
3) Bleeding underneath fingernail

So when will I hang my basketball shoes? I think injury will tell.