The bad news is that Mikey’s baseball season is officially over. The good news is that we’re not talking long term or a major injury thankfully.
Yesterday, Mikey was hit with a pitch on the hand while batting and he broke his thumb. Luckily, it broke and didn’t shatter. I’ll give the kid points for toughness as he took his base and even had to slide into 2nd base on the next play. But after that he could barely remove his batting glove and couldn’t even get his hand in his glove and squeeze. He iced it for a few before we decided it was best to get him to Urgent Care for X-rays. We needed to see what we were dealing with now. It was confirmed broken…a non displaced fracture of the proximal phalanx (for you medical type people). He was given a splint to immobilize it and Mary was great in getting him an appointment tomorrow morning with orthopedics. We are guessing it’s going to be around 6 weeks…but we’ll wait for the experts to tell us for sure.
Mikey has always told us “I’m not a great watcher”. He needs to be playing and involved and not just watching the sports. The next several weeks will definitely be challenging for him.
I found a nice article since I know I’m not alone here in having a child injured while playing sports. Give it a read…and we’ll start the rehab soon as ice hockey season will be hear before he knows it.
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