When raising your children, you will deal with bumps and bruises at some point. When your child plays organized sports, you might deal with more bumps and bruises, and perhaps, broken bones or stitches. It seems to be a trend.
Well, we never "expect" our children to get injured, but we were really thrown for a loop last week when the Orthopedic cleared our daughter at 4:00 from a broken finger injury, and then at 7:00 she broke her ankle.
Let's back up--our daughter decided last month that she wanted to join the swim team for the first time. We thought this was a good idea because she tends to sprain her ankes alot. We thought swimming might be a good sport for her to stay injury-free. Well, in her second race at her first swim meet, she went crooked and her hand hit the lane marker. We waited several days before we took her for an x-ray. Sure enough, she had broken a growth plate in her finger.
The finger injury healed quickly. Three weeks later she was cleared from the injury. That night, she joined a friend at a recreational gymnastics class, (three hours after returning home from her doctor's appointment). While walking across a mat, she twisted her ankle. Yes, she broke her ankle. Bummer!
As sports parent, we take it all in stride.
Monday, July 21, 2008
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