This tale and the mention of dislocation that resided therein reminded me of my own dalliance with dislocation three weeks ago yesterday and if I may I'd like to briefly recount it to the reading public and ask 2, if not more, questions. I play rugby ( I live in the North so it's Rugby League). During a game three weeks ago yesterday a 19 stone man collided with my upright left leg causing it's knee to severely dislocate. I can only describe the sensation as utter and total howling agony far worse than any physical pain I had ever encountered up to that point. I haven't got a photograph but my patella (kneecap for you peasants) was pointing 90 degrees west of where God intended it to. A bird's eye view would have given the impression of a mastectomy given the hole that existed where my kneecap should have. About 20 minutes of lying on the floor late the ambulance arrived, put me on a stretcher (such fun when they move you around) and whisked me off to Bolton Hospital where the knee was popped back into place amidst extreme pain. My left leg now lives in what is termed a cricket pad brace rendering it unbendable. I am on crutches and have 3 more weeks to go on them. I'm in considerable danger of going insane and have been forced to renew my subscription to Sky Sports to help break the tedium. I'm even re-reading Foucault's Pendulum. So, my questions are thus: 1) How far up the leg pain scale is a severe dislocation of the knee? When it first occured I thought it was a break, plain and simple. People with more experience of leg injuries than I reckon a break is less painful and a dislocation altogether more of a hassle. Can this be true? 2) It is approximately a 7 mile trip from where the injury occured to Bolton Hospital. Is it normal to devour an entire cannister of gas and air before we'd got within 2 miles of A&E?