Baby A goes hard, there is no doubt about that. It is no surprise that he has come up limping and in a bit of pain, it was bound to happen. Twice now this summer, he has pushed himself too hard, and now we find ourselves wondering if he is truly hurt or just bruised. The first one was when he crammed up trying to run the 40-yard dash at the UT football camp, early in June. I think after a few weeks, we are past that, although I will keep buying him gross Pickle Juice and other electrolytes, to make sure it isn't because he ran out of salts in his body.
This second injury happened while wrestling in an informal wrestling practice, which shouldn't have even been that big of a thing. First off, he said hardly anyone has been showing up. Second, it seems it was mostly him screwing around with a couple of the lighter class wrestlers, which he seems to do for fun since obviously, the smaller wrestlers can't even move him, he claims. Tonight, as we were going to lunch, he said he hurt it while "shooting", but he was sort of going against two kids, both much smaller than him, so he got caught trying to spread himself and capture both at the same time. He landed awkwardly, and that is how he hurt himself. It does not help that every time he goes to practice, he does another stupid activity. Friday, he got in the car starting with "don't get mad at me." According to him, he was challenged, and his manhood put into question. Thus, he had to put everyone in their place by beating them in a squat challenge. He was pretty proud of himself after both guys who challenged him did 22 and 24 squats, while he went on to do 45 reps with 225 pounds, or two plates on each side. This is a lot of weight, and pretty stupid, considering he was hurt, and we told him to take it easy.
All we can do is try to get him healed. We told him to take it easy this weekend, then we went and bought him a knee brace. This dumb boy puts it on and proceeds to immediately "shoot", which is a move where he throws himself low, land on the "injured knee" as if to grab an opponent around the legs. It doesn't seem to dawn on the boy that he just landed on his bad knee in our kitchen basically on cement. The knee brace had a gel support, but I don't think it is meant to protect a patella from a 250-pounder dropping his weight all at once. He did say the gel felt nice, but the knee brace was a tad small, it wouldn't stay on his knee, it kept sliding down. Tuesday morning, I went over to Academy and found a bigger, 2XL brace and got it for him to try. Initially, he said he couldn't really step and walk, but after adjusting it and pulling it higher up on his leg, he aligned the metal brace to his bending knee, and he said it felt a lot better. I am just hoping the knee needs a little break and he can continue on without being in any pain. It would help if he stopped being a knucklehead.
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