May 22nd, 2008
I love this sweet little girl! Oh I LOVE LOVE her but I’m gonna come back to that in a minute! Lately I’ve been playing A LOT of sports. I play soccer 3x a week, volleyball 1x a week, and basketball 2x a week. And I have been ABSOLUTELY Loving it! Back in high school and college my life pretty much revolved around sports. I loved loved loved sports. Then I had kids and sports for the most part took a backseat for quite a few years. Last fall I was asked to play on a volleyball league and from there it blossomed into basketball and then into soccer. The women I play with are absolutely fabulous and we’ve become quite good friends. Friends are good. I love friends. I’ve been a hermit for far too long, haha! So today in basketball I was ON FIRE, all my shots were falling life was good, we were about to win with the next basket and silly me goes and comes down on my friends foot. So yup you guessed it, I sprained the H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS out of my ankle. The same one I tore up in college. And all I can think about is how soon til I can get back. Of course my college coach put me on intensive physical therapy and had me on the court within a week. Now that I’m a 30-something mom I’m torn between rest and how soon I can get back. This is really bad timing too, I have a volleyball tournament next week AND a Futsal (soccer) tournament as well. *sigh* What to do? What to do? Anyway in my midst of feeling bad for myself (mostly when my foot was submerged in a bucket of ice water with the kind of raw down to the bone ache) I decided I needed to think about what I was grateful for. I’m so grateful it is just my ankle. I’ve torn my knee ligament and depending on which one you tear it can be 9 months out and surgery. So I am SO GLAD it wasn’t my knee. I’m grateful for a healthy body and awesome friends. But I’m MOST grateful for my awesome family. I take my youngest with me when I play in the mornings (pictured above) and she was a little upset that she had to leave early and didn’t get to finish playing with her friends but man she was just sooooo sweet. She was so helpful and kept giving me kisses and when I was laying down with my foot elevated she came and snuggled me and asked me if that helped me feel better. Aww, time for a tissue. She is such a little stinker at times but I tell you she is just SO SWEET!! And then my hubby, he ran out and got me an ace wrap because of course we couldn’t find one in the house and he got me a bucket of ice water and wrapped my foot too. Family is the best I tell you! They are always there when you need them most! So thanks to my family, I’d be lost without you!
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