h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Forgive me if this entry goes on for more than one day, but I am now forced to type only with my left hand (which wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't right handed).
Here's what happened: I am (was) on the varsity basketball team in my school. During practice on Monday we were having a three on three scrimage. The only problem with this was that the coach had made the teams according to hieght, and I was on the "short team" (I am only 5'2") playing against people who were definatly the farthest thing from short that I have seen in a long time. I don't know exactly how it happened, but I tripped. In order to avoid landing flat on my face, I put down the arm that didn't have the ball, and landed on it. I am now starting to think that landing on my face may have been a better decision Anyway, my wrist was killing me, so I went to the nurse who gave me an ice pack and told me to go and get an x-ray as soon as possible. What worried her (and me) the most was not only the fact that I couldn't move my wrist, but also that my fingers were swollen and also had no movement (not to mention the fact that between the time I hurt myself and the time I went to bed they turned just about every color of the rainbow). So, we couldn't get an x-ray appointment any time before the universe would have ended (I think that it is because they knew that we don't speak very good Italian, and they just didn't want to deal with it), so I went to Pronto Sicorso (the Italian version of an emergency room). They x-rayed me, had a radiologist look at it, decided that nothing was wrong with the bones, but that I had certainly put it through "much traumatization" and would need to rest it for a week. I guess it's true when people say that doctors only make things worse, but I didn't think so until now. I am now walking around with a hude peice of wood (cut to the shape, but definatly not to the size, of my hand) wrapped in cotton strapped to my arm with an ace bandage. This, they said, was for support, and I am not allowed to remove it (even for showers) for one week. I think they could have done something else to it, but just wanted to make an American look like an idiot.
My new fashion trend went over great at school. So far I have gotten the comments: "Hey, nice glove", "aren't snowshoes for your feet?", "it looks like a snowman!!!", "Hey Robin, you gonna join the ping-pong team now?"