I don't know that it matters too much at this point, other than to give us a little hope. After Mijo hurt his ankle this time, the trainer could not tell if it was possibly fractured or if it was something less serious. My hope is that it was just a sprained ankle that might take a week to heal. While we sat and finished watching the game, Wife called and set up a visit to our now favorite doctor's office, Texas Orthopedics. She was able to secure an appointment for the afternoon, at 2:15pm. Being that he was real tender moving around, we let him stay home, so he wouldn't have to be moving around too much.
The first thing they did at the doctor's was to take some x-rays, and luckily there were no fractured bones to worry about. I didn't expect them to look so solid and square down around the ankle, I thought they looked cool. Based on where the tenderness is, the doctor said it was either a low ankle or a high ankle strain, unfortunately, these types of injuries take time to heal, a high ankle sprain could take 6-8 weeks to heal completely. Even the low ankle sprain, the doc said could take 2-4 weeks to heal. This pretty much takes him to the end of the football season, which is a shitty way to end your senior year, when the build-up was looking so good, with all the work that had been done prior to the knee injury. I know this weighs heavy on him, he feels like he is letting down his teammates, and there isn't much he can do. It hurts me too that we can't do anything but sit with him and wait.
After the visit, he was pretty bummed out, Wife suggested going to the school to talk to the trainer and possibly the coach, it was almost 3:30pm and there was an early release, so we were thinking there wouldn't be any kids around at that time. We were wrong, within two minutes of being there, like his friends knew he had showed up, they all gathered there, I think they were all there to talk to the trainer, all these boys are walking injured in one way or another, but they all rallied around Mijo. Coach was there, while we talked to the trainer, showing her the x-rays, the boys ran down the hall to tell the coach what the doctor said. Coach was either hoping against hope or he knows more from experience. He boldly told Mijo, just put your leg in ice, you'll be fine in a week, we'll get you back out there in two weeks.
I still think he has a few games in him, I am hoping he will feel better in two weeks, maybe play his last two district games and then there should be some playoff games, they are currently 3-3, and they had been told that 3 district game wins pretty much would get them into the playoffs, so one more win and they are contending with that, while I believe they can win 3 of the last 4 matches pretty easily, considering how well they have been playing.
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