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SS14 injured

BettyRay's picture

SS14 got hurt over the weekend. He was screwing around on his bike and whiped-out. BM didn't take him to the ER till over 24-hours later. It looks like he'll be on crutches for most of the summer.

So his plans for baseball and a boy scout hiking trip are out; and no water-skiing or tubing for him this summer; and most likely no skiing this winter. Dh and I were explaining this to SS14. He's not accepting the severity of this injury yet. He's got an appointment with a specialist today. I hope the news is hopeful.

SS14 was over last night and he's not elevating the leg properly or icing it. When DH and I asked him about it SS14's response was that he knew what he was supposed to do but didn't feel like doing it. :? Stupid teenage attitude.

It's a shame SS14 doesn't realize that this is an injury that could affect him for the rest of his life.

~BettyRay

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Jsmom's picture

Kids are kids and not much you can do about it. I spent that entire year at 14 in a cast from a break from a bone tumor and was miserable. Thankfully all healed. But, I didn't do the physical therapy that I was supposed to so my ankle doesn't have the correct flexibility. Now at 44 the hip problems from that year have turned into Bursitis. I couldn't have prevented that, but I could have prevented the ankle problems that have plagued me for years. Parents tried to get me to go, but I was done with the cast and being a cripple.

Give him a break, it is going to set in soon enough that all his plans are canceled and he is going to be lonely while everyone is doing everything else. He is in denial now.

alwaysanxious's picture

every summer SS12 does something to injure himself. He ends up with a cast or stitches each time. It never fails.