BROKEN HAND!

It was quite an exciting way to end a baseball season. We are playing in our last tournament of the season for Ignite. Eli was playing left field and a ball was hit out to him so he was running and running to catch it and had to dive to try and get it and his glove got caught on some grass and so his body rolled over and snapped his bones in his hand. He was out there crying. He had to come in and the coaches were looking at it and told him it wasn't broken and that he was fine to keep going. They were icing it but it was time for him to bat again. He did not want to bat because his hand hurt so bad. Coaches asked him to just go up there and hold the bat - he didn't even have to swing, but this way maybe some runners could try and steal a base or maybe he would even get walked. (again, I am writing this post a year later so I don't remember what happened with his at bat - I know he couldn't swing it - but I feel like he struck out). The game finally ended and we all said our goodbyes until the end of the season party and I looked at Jared and said - something is wrong with his hand. He does not act like this. Jared wanted to wait and get him into the doctor during the week and I told him I was just going to drive him straight to the Banner Cardon's ER right now. Sunday afternoon at 3pm - it was awesome - no one was there and we got right in. They x-rayed him and sure enough it was broken. They said they see that kind of baseball injury a lot - it happens in the MLB a ton too. Jared like usual was home taking a nap while I was at the ER with Eli so when we finally got home we made Jared do dinner and Eli and I relaxed. We had to wait a few days to get into the Peds ortho to get a cast on. The type he had to get is called a clam cast and some how we all called it the lame clam hand - but pronounced really funny like. He was a real trooper missing out on swimming all summer poor kid. When Eli finally got his cast off his stunk so bad we are all dry heaving and he was disgusted by all the skin coming off and how tiny his hand was - ha ha!