We have four terrific grandsons. They range in age from almost 10 to 17 and driving! (We married YOUNG.) Two live close by and two live way cross country. All are active and busy and talented and creative and energetic and smart…..who me prejudiced???
But in the past few months three out of four have suffered sports-related injuries. Two almost full-time (it seems) soccer players on the West Coast have gone to physical therapy for shoulder, collar bone and other injuries. They attend rehab…and then start playing again. Both love the sport and both are very good at it. So we hear the reports of success on the field combined with injuries sustained and do a little worrying from afar.
Then there was the most recent adventure with a third grandson, one living close to us. He fell out of his tree house last weekend! It was a cold Sunday, but boys with energy need to bundle up and GO OUTSIDE. So he and his brother were messing around….and suddenly an idea didn't quite work out the way it was planned and youngest grandson, who had just been up IN the tree fort, was lying ON the snow, face up looking at the sky. Yikes!
Parental interaction, supervision, questioning - ice pack, kids' pain reliever, heating pad, quiet time. And then on Tuesday a trip to the doctor to just check things out - X-rays and results showing this grandson suffered a very small "hairline" fracture on one of his vertebrae. Gulp. Now I get to worry close by.
Seems that he is healing well and there is not much prescribed except rest, ice, heating bag…..just what his parents were doing. But still……three out of four.
Everyone just go lie down on the nearest couch and read a book.
No comments:
Post a Comment