heb1976
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O.K. Can someone please come over here and remove this black cloud from above my head. Am I ever going to get a frickin' break? Just when I think things are starting to get better - or tolerable - WHAM! I am ht with something else.
The boys and I were up at the soccer fields today after school. The U-12 had a game and the fields needed lined. The boys were on the playground playing. I was trying to hurry up so I could go to the school before the principal left to pick up the math book Justin forgot. I get the majority of the field done and yell for the kids to come on. Then I hear this scream. It is Justin. I start walking towards the playground and see Justin laying on the ground. A mother that was with her son runs to him to see if he is ok. He sat up and was covered from head to toe in mulch - it was even in his mouth.
He was going across the monkey bars and lost his grip. He fell like a ton of bricks, face first into the ground - and he couldn't move his hand. I look at it and you could see it immediately swell. I tell him to move his fingers, which he could and we head to the car. I always freeze bottled water for them and just add scalding hot water to it before we leave because it stays colder. I tell him to put it on his wrist and we head to the school.
We talk with the principal - walk to his class - get his book - start heading back and he starts to scream. He moved his wrist downwards and it was killing him. Well - no football practice for him - it's emergency room time.
I go back to the soccer fields to let Jenny - my secretary - know what is going on and give her the checkbook to pay the refs. We head to the emergency room.
They take x-rays. Just by the immediate swelling alone, they know there is a fracture. Well - there it was ... a buckle fracture in his wrist - right by the growth plate. He was devastated. Tomorrow is his 1st football game and now he cannot play. I have to make an appt. with the bone specialist tomorrow - and they will probably cast it. He has a splint and sling right now. He can still play soccer as long as he wraps the cast with an ace bandage - but I am waiting to see what the specialist says first. They are saying 4 weeks - which means Justin can return to football with only 2 games remaining. I feel so bad for him. The coaches have been talking him up so big because of his size and how hard he has been tackling. He was looking so forward to it.
Here are some pics. Will take more after his appt.
Oh and don't mind hubby in the last pic - he is rocking the beer gut and he barely even drinks!
The boys and I were up at the soccer fields today after school. The U-12 had a game and the fields needed lined. The boys were on the playground playing. I was trying to hurry up so I could go to the school before the principal left to pick up the math book Justin forgot. I get the majority of the field done and yell for the kids to come on. Then I hear this scream. It is Justin. I start walking towards the playground and see Justin laying on the ground. A mother that was with her son runs to him to see if he is ok. He sat up and was covered from head to toe in mulch - it was even in his mouth.
He was going across the monkey bars and lost his grip. He fell like a ton of bricks, face first into the ground - and he couldn't move his hand. I look at it and you could see it immediately swell. I tell him to move his fingers, which he could and we head to the car. I always freeze bottled water for them and just add scalding hot water to it before we leave because it stays colder. I tell him to put it on his wrist and we head to the school.
We talk with the principal - walk to his class - get his book - start heading back and he starts to scream. He moved his wrist downwards and it was killing him. Well - no football practice for him - it's emergency room time.
I go back to the soccer fields to let Jenny - my secretary - know what is going on and give her the checkbook to pay the refs. We head to the emergency room.
They take x-rays. Just by the immediate swelling alone, they know there is a fracture. Well - there it was ... a buckle fracture in his wrist - right by the growth plate. He was devastated. Tomorrow is his 1st football game and now he cannot play. I have to make an appt. with the bone specialist tomorrow - and they will probably cast it. He has a splint and sling right now. He can still play soccer as long as he wraps the cast with an ace bandage - but I am waiting to see what the specialist says first. They are saying 4 weeks - which means Justin can return to football with only 2 games remaining. I feel so bad for him. The coaches have been talking him up so big because of his size and how hard he has been tackling. He was looking so forward to it.
Here are some pics. Will take more after his appt.
Oh and don't mind hubby in the last pic - he is rocking the beer gut and he barely even drinks!
But they still all tried ganging up on me. lol