One morning while lounging around in my PJ's I got a phone call from the school nurse telling me that Israel had fallen and hurt his wrist. They tried to send him to class but he said that it still was hurting so they gave me a call. I thought to myself "the kid just got to school what on earth could he possibly have done in such a short time?". Well, he had been playing soccer and stopped the ball with his foot, went off balance, and landed backward on his wrist trying to catch his fall. I hurried and changed from my comfortable PJ's (which I so wanted to spend at least half the day in) and reluctantly took him to the doctor (you know it costs $20 a pop plus all the other fees-couldn't he just grin and bear it?). Sure enough x-rays said he had fractured his wrist. It was a small fracture but a fracture nonetheless.
He was excited to pick out his cast color. I wasn't too excited about having to wrap that thing to give him a bath. Now his hand washing skills were going to be even worse than they already were, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. Out of all the kids, I'm not really surprised that he was the first one with a broken bone of some sort.
Funny thing is, when I took him back to school that day, he went straight out to recess a nd played soccer again. I guess boys will be boys and you gotta love 'em for that. You go Israel!
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Boys, boys, my son did the same thing (almost) this year. He broke his wrist during basketball practice running backwards. He lost his balance and fell down on his rear. The catch broke his wrist. It seems so bizarre that the wrist can break that easy. Travis is a 6'3" 175 pd. freshman. We teased him and told him he needed to come up with a better story than back peddling, I mean you could have broke it on the rim dunking the basketball LOL!! I hope your insurance is better than ours. It ended up costing us a fortune when it was all said and done.
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