September 13, 2011
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Bad Parenting Moment
After spending most of the summer rolling over on her ankles, Oldest Large Child hurt herself last week while we were down at the river with the dogs and didn’t tell me. Now if you know me, I’m not one to run to the doctor in the first place if an illness or bump appears to be minor. Knowing this, is why OLC didn’t tell me at first that she had hurt herself. I noticed a day or so later that OLC was limping and when questioned, OLC said she slipped on the rocks, but it didn’t hurt much and she felt it was just a roll over. Another day and OLC’s foot ankle still isn’t better and now she is limping MORE. I applied some Myoflex and wrapped the foot and ankle figuring that should do the trick.
Apparently not. After hobbling about for nearly a week, I took OLC to the doctor today … apparently, OLC didn’t just roll over on her ankle, she sprained her foot. So an additional pain relieving cream was prescribed and while crutches were not recommended, no running was. Soccer evaluations are later this week … great. I’m sure I must have looked like one of those hard core mothers pushing my child to excell at sports at all costs when I asked if Oldest Large Child would be able to participate in the evaluations. Uhm, not really me, but I know my daughter and being told she could not play soccer, even for 10 days, broke her heart and mine for her. Well there is nothing we can do but start resting the foot and getting it better so that OLC will be ready to play when practices start.
