TenorsForWorldDomination Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Maybe I'm jaded because I played with rusty, metal Tonka trucks, rode a bike without a helmet and have been overseas a few times........... but here is the morning rant.The wussification of America continues.......... everyone please climb into your bubbles. Do NOT come out until all sharp edges found and eliminated. What ever happened to the spirit of adventure and risk in America? Good thing the 1st explorers didn't stand on the edge of the Great Plains or the edge of the Rocky Mountains and decide it was too tough and someone might get hurt. Thank God the men of Concord and Lexington didn't play the percentages for a full and happy life at the birth of our nation. Sam Walton and Bill Gates took some risks, it seems it worked out OK for them. Is the Atlanta regional close to any of that? Hell no. But singular events like this can shape a young person. Are they going to be the type that rolls over for the rest of their lives or stand up in face of adversity? Really, it was pink-eye with a corneal abrasion. Once the irritant causing the abrasion was removed and the eye was patched preventing further contaminants from entering, the eye can heal just fine. Doctors have a wonderful habit of saying go home and rest so they don't get sued or people don't lose jobs. My rant is now over. I'm going to go find some Decaf now. Congrats to this young lady for looking at the situation and saying, "F*** it. I'm tougher than that." GREAT POST!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartyount Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 In general, to march with pain can be admirable in some circumstances. But to march with an injury that could lead to the permanent loss of sight in an eye, against medical advice, is not very smart. It's not the percentage play for leading a full and happy life. I see your point and agree that you shouldn't risk permanent injury for a single drumcorps show. But it sounds to me that in this case there was no danger of rsiking further injury to her eyesight. I think the advice not to march was due to the fact that they didn't know if she would be able to handle the spatial orientation needed for the drill. As an aside - I marched with a girl who was blind in one eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OdeToArsenal47 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) Heck yeah!Someone needs to start a club for people who marched a show under interesting circumstances. My contribution? I marched a show with a rubber sandal taped to my foot. Good times! Ooh ooh, high school marching band story time. The bibbers I got for that year were really tight so my movement was limited. First competition, I split them while stretching. On top of all of that, I forgot my shorts so I was marching in my boxers. And on top of that, my boxers were bright green. Very interesting to say the least. Edited July 27, 2009 by OdeToArsenal47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BozzlyB Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) Maybe I'm jaded because I played with rusty, metal Tonka trucks, rode a bike without a helmet and have been overseas a few times........... but here is the morning rant.The wussification of America continues.......... everyone please climb into your bubbles. Do NOT come out until all sharp edges found and eliminated. What ever happened to the spirit of adventure and risk in America? Good thing the 1st explorers didn't stand on the edge of the Great Plains or the edge of the Rocky Mountains and decide it was too tough and someone might get hurt. Thank God the men of Concord and Lexington didn't play the percentages for a full and happy life at the birth of our nation. Sam Walton and Bill Gates took some risks, it seems it worked out OK for them. Is the Atlanta regional close to any of that? Hell no. But singular events like this can shape a young person. Are they going to be the type that rolls over for the rest of their lives or stand up in face of adversity? Really, it was pink-eye with a corneal abrasion. Once the irritant causing the abrasion was removed and the eye was patched preventing further contaminants from entering, the eye can heal just fine. Doctors have a wonderful habit of saying go home and rest so they don't get sued or people don't lose jobs. My rant is now over. I'm going to go find some Decaf now. Congrats to this young lady for looking at the situation and saying, "F*** it. I'm tougher than that." Agree 100 % Edited July 27, 2009 by BozzlyB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartyount Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Someone needs to start a club for people who marched a show under interesting circumstances. Shout out to Eric Krebs! Marched finals in 95 after being hit by a car that afternoon! If you watch Bluecoats 95 show, you can see the bandages on a snare drummers head. I personally think it was an elaborate conspiracy to get a boost in GE. My contribution? I marched a show with a rubber sandal taped to my foot. Good times! I marched a couple shows with my middle finger bandaged.... meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BozzlyB Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I see your point and agree that you shouldn't risk permanent injury for a single drumcorps show. But it sounds to me that in this case there was no danger of rsiking further injury to her eyesight. I think the advice not to march was due to the fact that they didn't know if she would be able to handle the spatial orientation needed for the drill.As an aside - I marched with a girl who was blind in one eye. In 88 in we had a deaf contra player. She was hard core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Meh. Talk to me when marches with one leg. (And I mean one leg. No prosthetics, peg legs or any of that wussie crap.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrumpetJ Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I thought I noticed an eye patch towards the end of the show. That's pretty awesome that she made it through the show with only half of her eyesight available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blooomom Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I thought I noticed an eye patch towards the end of the show. That's pretty awesome that she made it through the show with only half of her eyesight available. This was also the girl who in 2006 continued the tour after having a huge tree limb fall on her during everydays. She was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, bleeding tremendously, had a concusion, multiple stiches in her head and a neck injury. The tech that went with her to the emergency room said the first words out of her mouth were can I still march! She went home for a week and was back on tour. No one, doctors, parents anyone is going to talk her out of marching if she thinks she can. This is her fourth year marching drum corps and is also her age-out. She is passionate about drum corps and loves the experience no matter what place her corps is in!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyName06 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 During the her lunch break on 25 July 2009, the day of the Southeastern Championships in Atlanta, Bluecoats soprano Ashley Burgess, having suffered from multiple bouts of pink-eye this summer, suddenly found herself with no vision in her now painful left eye. After being rushed to the local emergency room in Stockbridge, GA, the E.R. doctor dilated and dyed her eye and found she had a corneal abrasion with a remote possibility of an ulcer. They gave her eye drops, patched her eye, gave her two percocets for the pain, prescribed more, booked an appointment with an optometrist for the following Monday, and sent her back to the rehearsal site 45 minutes before the Coats left for the Georgia Dome. After being strongly advised not to march, she showered, made adjustments to her patch, put on her uniform and marched anyway, unable to guide left without turning her head. Her disadvantage caused her to tick only one set the entire show which she quickly corrected in the middle of the move (no she was not part of the collision and spill, that happened in the back of the diamond form, her dot is in the front of that). The rest of her show was perfectly marched! The next day, the brass staff requested the patch she wore that night to be signed and dated, "Atlanta '09" by her and kept in the corps to be passed down along with other artifacts from the corps' past for years to come, and she received applause from the entire Bluecoats hornline as she took her spot in horn arc during sectionals. Ashley embodies the gutsy passion for marching music that dwells within all drum corps members past and present. She represents us well, and I am the luckiest man on the face of the planet to be able to declare that Ash is my fiancee. I was in the Georgia Dome to watch her march that show last night. Words cannot describe how immensely proud I am of her. Sorry to honk, but her story needed to be told. I’m aroused... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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