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Recreational athlete Osang 2016
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Alexander Osang / The Mirror
In the summer I was bitten by a tick in my Brandenburg isolation and fell ill with Lyme disease a little later.
I took an antibiotic for three weeks and answered a letter from the health department for the Robert Koch Institute.
I filled out the form with a bad conscience because the RKI had its hands full.
I imagined a lonely tick man who felt as superfluous among the hectic Covid officials as a local reporter in a newspaper office who is busy with a world war.
A week ago I injured my ankle while playing soccer.
Ten minutes before the final whistle, an opposing player named Franz kicked me at the edge of the penalty area.
He said, "I played the ball."
The sentence is always an admission of guilt.
I got up.
Franz offered an apology, which I turned down.
He held out his hand.
Then ten seconds later I shook it.
I don't have any more anger.
The next morning my right foot resembled the hoof of a farm horse.
It was the color of an eggplant.
The internet said this and that.
The doctors were all concerned with fear.
The second wave swelled at the same time as my ankle.
The only one who had time was an osteopath.
He wears a hairstyle like Dr.
Müller-Wohlfahrt and has helped me more in the course of my football career than all the orthopedic surgeons who have signed and framed jerseys of national volleyball players hanging in their consulting rooms.
The doctor looked at my horse's foot and said: It's 50 percent broken.
Three minutes later, it increased to 80. He recommended the emergency room of a hospital, which was empty anyway due to Corona.
I could be x-rayed and operated on right away.
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