Soccer Travails

Jeremy dislocated his wrist at the growth plate last weekend during a soccer tournament in San Bernardino. It was during a big tournament sponsored by the LA Galaxy amd he did it during the first of three games. I suspect it got fractured during a sideways bicycle kick stunt that he pulled off during the game, falling on his wrist, because just a few minutes later, he fell on it and that is when it popped. Tina, the soccer mom who drove us to the game, drove us to the hospital emergency room where we waited for the doctor to snap it back into place. They had to put Jeremy under to perform the operation, and he wasn't too happy about it. I was there for the whole thing and I was a bit scared as well, based on what the nurse told me could happen. Thankfully nothing did, but it was really hard to watch him watch the meds go into his vein and then him slowing going under. The entire procedure to fix his wrist took probably 30 seconds, it was just the waking up part that took long, a whole 15 minutes for him to wake up.

Now he has a cast on his arm. I don't want to see him in an emergency room anymore. It is really scary, on top of the fact that there were all kinds of people in the ER as well. But he had a Dr. and nurse who knew what they weer doing so that was good, and it was a pretty common occurrence. Its the fact that they ahd to put him under with powerful drugs that concerned me the most for a seemingly simple procedure. The only reason why they put him under though because the pain would have been unbearable for him. His season is over though until the Fall. He wants to play in summer tournaments, but I think I'll convince him to wait til the Fall. Also, he won't play in any tournament when his team doesn't have a m,inimum of three reserves, because during the first half of the only game he played in, he was breathing hard, I never saw him run so much, while the other team subbed out three players at a time, so they always had fresh players on the field.