Many years ago a friend's dog broke my nose!

We were playing at the beach, throwing a tennis ball back & forth to each other. Bidi, his beautiful Doberman, was excitedly dashing from one to the other, trying to intercept the ball.

Then when the ball was coming my way, Bidi leapt up high to catch it in her mouth. Our noses collided and we both fell over on the sand in shock! Bidi was fine but I soon realized that blood was gushing out and I soon developed a black eye. I didn't realize my nose was broken at first so had to have it re-broken a week later & set in an embarrassing metal cast for a month. The re-breaking was much more painful than the original collision & I passed out twice on the surgery floor!

Nevertheless, Bidi & I remained good friends!