My return from a “lost” season
My 2022-23 bowling season lasted all of one week. I started my league as usual, but then had to take the next one off for the funeral of my closest uncle. Then, as it happened, I noticed an unusual discharge on both of my legs that weekend, so I checked myself into the hospital, where my stay would end up being a few days long while they were figuring out how to treat a cellulitis infection without the usual antibiotics, which I seemed to be having an adverse reaction to.
The hospital eventually released me on oral antibiotics, but it would take some more time for the infection to clear up. While this was going on, they were diagnosing the underlying cause of the infection, and they believe a veinous insufficiency in my legs helped set the infection up. Compression stockings were prescribed as initial treatment, and that’s as far as it went, as my legs improved as soon as I was able to wear the compression stockings most of the day on a daily basis.
In the meantime, the dues I owed to the league were piling up. I did make one good-faith payment first, in the hope that I could save my season. It eventually got to the point, however, where I missed too many weeks to qualify for individual prizes, so the prudent thing was just to cut my losses, withdraw from the league, and pay the league for the weeks I’d missed. I needed to do the latter in order to keep my USBC membership in good standing, the one prerequisite that I needed for staying on the BPUSBC Board of Directors. Later, when I was feeling better, there was still hope that I could get 21 games in for my season’s average by subbing in the Thursday Night Patriots league, but with practice time being spotty at best and opportunities to sub dwindling, even my 21-game average goal for the season slipped away.
2023-24 season reset
At the time of my withdrawal from last season’s Brunswick Mixed league, I reached an understanding with the Geddes family that I’d be returning to their team in the fall (now). They picked up a male bowler, Charlie Ibrahim, to finish their season, and they’ve retained Charlie as a sub for this season. With treatment for another health concern possibly looming, this is comforting to me. The league goes back two years for starting average, so I’m back to the 178 I had the season previous to last.
Week 1 results & notes
My bowling, frame-by-frame
I had one of the biggest excuses to bowl bad out there last night, and yet I still almost made my 500. I didn’t throw many strikes, but my spare game definitely kept me in good stead, and I even threw a flush strike in the 10th first game when my team needed it. Physically, I felt good, and that was all I really cared about last night. The bowling stuff will come back in time; given last night, I may even be a little ahead of schedule.
Scores: 158-179-159=496
Average (3 games): 165
AVG+1 score for next week: 500
Bobby, having not bowled at all during the summer, was itching to go and went 30-clean, barely missing 700. The team took 2.5 of a possible 4 points.
The Tenth Board 
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