Silver Fern Adine Wilson confesses to having a rather strange object perched on her bedside table.
The 25-year-old had arthroscopic surgery on her knee eight days ago to remove part of her meniscus - a half-moon-shaped piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber in the knee.
"They took
it out and gave it to me in a wee jar to take home," Wilson says.
"It's sitting next to my bed. I know that is so bizarre, I don't know how it ended up there."
A week after her operation Wilson says she is "feeling pretty good" and is already back on the bike.
But she is not expected to take the court for the Sting until at least round six of the National Bank Cup - just two games out from the end of the round robin competition.
"The girls will just have to keep winning so I have got semis and the final to play in," she laughs.
Wilson tore her meniscus in a pre-season tournament in Sydney. The incident is her third in a matter of months. She missed last year's national provincial championships after slitting her head on the opening day and this year had a cancerous mole removed from her arm.
"Let this be number three and it will all be over with. Prior to that I'd had a good run, but all of a sudden I have been plagued."
Although she is unable to take the court, Wilson still attends the side's training sessions and matches but concedes it is difficult sitting on the bench.
"In one match it was deadly silent and Tania [Dalton] made herself really clear under the post and I yelled, 'She's free, give it' and everybody heard me.
"The ladies behind us were cracking up so I quietened down after that. It is frustrating, you just want to get out there and play."
The Sting have won their opening two games and meet the Otago Rebels in Dunedin tomorrow in what should be their hardest hitout yet.
"The Rebels have been playing very well. Last time we played them in Dunedin [in 2003] they beat us. It was an awful feeling."
