My Bad Luck Continues

When "Med student guy" called me Thursday night, I asked how his basketball game went. The answer was not good. While his team won, he left just before the half when he came down with a rebound and hurt his knee. He was hoping for just a sprain as the initial x-rays from Thursday night showed no pieces of the bone had broken off. However, after his MRI yesterday, it turns out that he tore his ACL. So he's been on crutches with a leg immobilizer since going to the ER.

My first thought when he said that he may have torn his ACL was that we weren't going to get to meet Friday. However, he insisted that he would be able to make it, even if it was only for an hour or two. "Med student guy" even insisted that we go to the initial venue that we agreed upon, despite the fact that he would have to go down a flight of stairs that aren't the easiest to navigate when you're not injured.

So I got home last night, took a shower, and started getting ready. I was just getting ready to head out to have a drink with my friends before meeting him when he called. "Med student guy" felt really bad and must have apologized ten times about canceling. His knee was so swollen that he wasn't able to bend it at all, let alone get the leg immobilizer on. However, he did admit that he was going to show up without the crutches and the brace - men and their egos! He admitted that he was stubborn, an important first step in getting him to at least use one or the other when we reschedule.

Apparently the shot of cortisone that they gave him after the MRI yesterday morning made his knee worse. He had told me that when he tore his shoulder years ago, they had given him a shot of cortisone then, too, and it made his shoulder worse as well (it's funny - he actually told me about that last Monday before he blew out his knee.) When they gave it to him with his shoulder, he thought that the doctor messed up the shot since it was his primary care physician and not an orthopedic specialist. However, I think that he has some sort of allergic reaction to cortisone, which sucks since he's going to have lots of pain after surgery and rehab.

I was definitely upset that I wasn't going to meet him last night since I'm obsessed with talking to him and I want to see if we click as well in person as we do over IM/phone. Hopefully the swelling will go down soon and we'll get to meet since he's made it clear that it will take a lot for him not to come out and meet me. As evidenced by last night, being unable to move is pretty much the only thing that will stop him. However, I do find it funny that I'm not the only one with bad luck - he has it, too! At least this time my bad luck isn't as bad...it's just delaying me from meeting "Med student guy". I think we'll meet as soon as that swelling goes down. At least it's cold outside again - maybe that will help alleviate the swelling some more.

As for "Law student guy", I was talking to him yesterday as well. However, I was rather annoyed at his pretentiousness. It's so annoying that I don't even really want to add it to this post because I don't want to have to re-read the conversation. Essentially the gist of our discussion yesterday ended with him smoking 3 $30 cigars a year - one of New Years, one of the 4th of July, and one TBD. He also drinks super-premium gin, according to the online research I've done as well as his description as the "good gin". Apparently I drink crappy gin since Bombay Sapphire is so "terrible".

I don't know - I think I would still like my gin more than Tanqueray No. 10 even if I tried it. Just on general principle at this point. And of course, all beer is crappy according to him. If he does drink beer, he apparently drinks Rolling Rock. I used to love Rolling Rock...back before I knew much at all about beer. I like Rolling Rock because it was from close to Pittsburgh and it had a green logo. Seriously - I like the green logo, green cans, and green bottles.

After being barraged with comments aimed to make me feel like I don't know anything about high end drinks, I was trying to figure out what it was about my profile that he actually liked. He doesn't like the sports that I do, this whole "high end drinking/expensive cigar smoking" lifestyle, he doesn't really know or like any of the music I listen to since it's not jazz or techno...it should have been obviously clear in my profile that I am not a snobby, pretentious person - why would I want to date a snobby and pretentious person? It was rather disappointing after that conversation and I'm not looking forward to talking to him at all. Why couldn't "Law student guy" have torn his ACL instead of "Med student guy"? Oh wait - my bad luck!