Saturday Soccer and a Broken Bone
Elsa was excited to start Saturday soccer. She was looking to hone up on her skills in preparation for Modified Soccer in the fall, for school! She only got to play in one game before finding out she had broken the ring finger on her left hand. So this is the only pic I have of her on that first and only day of Summer Soccer:
She had injured her hand while at camp this summer on the water slide. Apparently she tried to slow herself down on the gigantic hill slide; her finger gripped the plastic nice and tight while the rest of her kept going. When I picked her up from camp at the end of the week it was taped up, I chalked it up to one of those simple summer injuries. That is, until she took off the tape. It was bent in such a subtle weird way. I dropped off Michael and all the babies at a friends house and took her to the urgent care. They x-rayed it and determined it to be just badly sprained.
We got a call 4 days later and after the films were reviewed it was indeed broken. Right on the growth plate, where her finger meets the hand. The next day we saw an orthopedic surgeon and he confirmed the break, buddy taped it to the pinky, and restricted her from anything fun for the next 6 weeks. No soccer, no trampoline, no rough housing, no fun (as Elsa would put it). The real concern was not the broken finger, but where it was broken. We went in for 3 more x-rays and it has healed just fine! We will know in the upcoming years if the break affected the growth plate. (I shudder to think what they need to do if it is affected.)
She was most thankful that she didn't need a cast, so she was at least able to swim. I really hope this is our only broken bone, but with 3 little boys coming up the line I'm not holding my breath!
She had injured her hand while at camp this summer on the water slide. Apparently she tried to slow herself down on the gigantic hill slide; her finger gripped the plastic nice and tight while the rest of her kept going. When I picked her up from camp at the end of the week it was taped up, I chalked it up to one of those simple summer injuries. That is, until she took off the tape. It was bent in such a subtle weird way. I dropped off Michael and all the babies at a friends house and took her to the urgent care. They x-rayed it and determined it to be just badly sprained.
We got a call 4 days later and after the films were reviewed it was indeed broken. Right on the growth plate, where her finger meets the hand. The next day we saw an orthopedic surgeon and he confirmed the break, buddy taped it to the pinky, and restricted her from anything fun for the next 6 weeks. No soccer, no trampoline, no rough housing, no fun (as Elsa would put it). The real concern was not the broken finger, but where it was broken. We went in for 3 more x-rays and it has healed just fine! We will know in the upcoming years if the break affected the growth plate. (I shudder to think what they need to do if it is affected.)
She was most thankful that she didn't need a cast, so she was at least able to swim. I really hope this is our only broken bone, but with 3 little boys coming up the line I'm not holding my breath!
I hope I don't jinx our family by saying this, but with our three active boys, the only bone we've had broken was that fracture on CJ's neck.
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