Lucas and Jason were tossing the football around while we were all at the park. Lucas is in football camp this coming week so they were doing some practice throws. Well, Lucas missed a catch and jammed the ball off the end of his 2 fingers. There were some tears and we figured it would be forgotten a few hours later. Didn't exactly happen that way.
We put some ice on it when we got home and it was starting to swell. Lucas had his last soccer game that afternoon and he was adament that there was no way he could play. So I buddy wrapped his fingers in tape and gave him some advil and we were good to go a couple hours later. He was careful on the field and all was good.
He had his first sleepover at our house last night with a friend (they had a blast!) so he had lots of distraction last night. This morning I figured we should take the tape off and have a look. Yup, green, purple and blue all across the knuckle. He said he couldn't move it and it was soooo swollen. So off to urgent care for x-rays we went.
Good thing we did, he broke his middle finger and pulled all the ligaments. What a trooper, he played a whole soccer game 2 hours after he did it!!
So he has a splint for a few weeks to let it heal and we begin our trips to the paed. orthopaedic clinic soon. He thought the x-ray was extremely cool so it was all worth it ;)
This is kind of a right of passage in our house. I broke my middle finger in a rugby game in university (yes, I was on the varsity team, shock!) , and Jason broke his ring finger in a basketball game way back when.
We'll see how football camp goes this week, the Dr. said he can do it as long as he takes it easy. Lucas is Mr.Competitive, we shall see what happens, could be interesting. He also starts back into his soccer select team practices this week. When it rains it pours :)
Aw, your poor boy! I hope he heals fast. What a trooper!
ReplyDeleteOuch! I hope it heals quickly for him and that he can get back out fully participating again soon.
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