Football

This last weekend David's football team had a double header.  They played really well & won the first game and in the final minutes lost the second game.  Towards the end of the first game David went to grab a kid on the other teams flag, since this player had his flag tied it didn't come off like it should and David after yanking it off got himself picked up off the ground and started shaking his hand and came off the field saying his finger hurt.  We thought he jammed his finger & gave him some ice.  He insisted that he was able to finish playing the game (against my advice, wonder where he gets that from?!) and play in the second game!  When he wasn't on the field he was icing his hand and insisting it was fine even though it hurt really bad.  We had a Halloween party Saturday night, after we got home from that he said that his finger hurt really bad, worse than earlier in the day. I looked at it and it was a lot more swollen than it was earlier and more purple/blue than before.  So, he and I headed to quick care to get an x-ray.  The doctor did an x-ray and said it was broken, and to wear this splint until it doesn't hurt anymore then he is able to take it off and return to normal activity, and prescribed him a pain med!   Knowing that that is not the way I wanted to take care of this, but welcomed the pain meds and splint, we made it through the rest of the weekend. 

 Monday morning I called our orthopedic surgeon and was only able to get David in with the PA.  His finger still didn't look or feel any better.  Once we were there they did another x-ray since the images that were supposed to be on the cd we got from quick care were not on there!  Here is one of the pictures (the best one) of his finger!  He ended up not only breaking the bone, just below the lower knuckle but he also broke his growth plate.  His finger is severely displaced and they aren't able to do anything for it at this point because it is so swollen.

 So they put him in a soft cast for the next week.  We go back next Monday to see the doctor and will have to do more x-rays to make sure that everything is healing the way it should be.  If it is, then he will most likely be in the soft cast for another week or two before moving into a splint.  If it isn't healing properly they will have to re-break it and set it so the bone & growth plate grow correctly. 

 He isn't a very happy kid right now.  He has 3 more weeks of fall football and 4 more weeks of fall ball (baseball) in addition to pitching lessons he has been taking for baseball and his normal club baseball team, plus getting a 6 week no PE note.  He is doing pretty good though, he is trying to be a good sport about it and is only needing pain meds at night to help him sleep.