When can we go back to normal, I thought we were done with this? I guess one should never think their son/daughter to be invincible, it has been a hard season watching Mijo unable to contribute, even though it is all he wants to do. The season got off to a slow start with his knee injury. At first, I joked about it because of how it happened. I did not think it would still be an issue in October, in the middle of the season, especially when MRI and two separate doctors told us nothing was broken, it was just bruising. Well, with physical therapy and time, we finally got over it, he was signed off and even got a baker's cyst, which had all this extra fluid from his knee develop and pop behind his knee. It didn't seem like more bad news could happen, but then he said he bumped it while running through plays, not even in full pads because practice was not supposed to be contact. He bruised it again, I was worried and a little pissed he didn't have it wrapped with something, but then again, it is supposed to be healed. This was just as he described it, just some superficial bruising, nothing to really worry about, although the coaches did not let him practice the rest of the week.
Last night, he made it to the second quarter before hurting himself again. I noticed him hopping around but staying in the game. I thought "here we go again..." Sure enough, a play or two later, he was pulled out. He came out, they took off the knee brace, which I thought maybe it broke or something, Tom Brady had a similar situation, where the brace worked itself sideways and then had to be removed a couple weeks ago. He seemed to be moving better once they took it off, and he even went another series in to play. We didn't know the severity of the injury, but he said although he tried, there was no strength in his leg, he either rolled his ankle or someone stepped on it, accidentally, I have to assume, especially when some of the guys were saying it was his own teammate that stepped on him as he ran through.
As a parent, you don't want to be called down to the field to talk about your son and his injuries, but we got the call during halftime to go to the field house where the team was. I had just gone to the bathroom and was wondering why Wife had left our camera and my phone unattended, but then she called, and I got scared hearing her tell me to go to where the team was at. Mijo was sitting on a table being looked at by the trainer, his leg was unwrapped, and I guess it was good to hear it wasn't his knee again, but she was looking at his ankle. Her worry is that it might be fractured or dislocated. There isn't anything sadder than watching your kid unable to do the one thing he lives for. I know the sacrifice this boy has endured, there wasn't a relaxing summer for him, he spent every day working out, this is his entirety of who he is right now, and not being able to help his team on the field just kills him. All the coaches came by, hugged him and told him it was alright, it was good but still very sad, as he realized his day was done.
This season is going by way too fast, there are four more games, and I just hope he can salvage some of them, maybe this injury is just a sprain, and he can be fit in a week. We scheduled another visit to the ortho Friday, so we shall see what they say. They have been very good at seeing him and treating him. As bad as Mijo's injury, there was another kid who took a hard hit to the chest, and he collapsed on the field and was down for a good 15-20 minutes. The was sobering, as bad as a limb injury is, a chest injury is much scarier because that is where our organs are. I asked the coach what happened to that kid after the game, while collecting Mijo's backpack and phone back at school, and he said he either bruised a rib or his sternum, he would be in pain for a while, but he should be alright. We forget sometimes how violent this game can be.
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