Wild weekend

My weekend started with FOR night at the Owasso/Jenks High School game.... Zach and Ashleigh got to participate ... they are always excited when they get to be on the HS field. I went to the game with a lot of optimism that Owasso was going to win this one and had to leave with only 3 minutes left in the game. 1. Because I couldn't handle the torture any longer and 2. to beat the traffic.... Owasso lost to Jenks AGAIN 14 - 6.
Saturday started out with getting ready for Ashleigh to cheer and Allie to play soccer in the morning and Zachary to play football in the afternoon. While getting everyone ready, I couldn't find Allie's shin guards and realized they were with Troy at work in his car, in Tulsa. So, after I dropped Ashleigh off to cheer at her 10AM game and left Zach to be there for her, Allie and I rushed to Wal-Mart to buy her new shin guards before her game at 11AM ... I finally got Allie to her game in all her gear, just in time to pick up Ashleigh from her game. After picking up Zach and Ashleigh, we rushed back to see Allie's last period of her game. So, I basically spent my time driving back and forth and didn't get to see any of Ashleigh's cheering and only a few minutes of Allie's game. :(
After the girl's games, we went to eat lunch with my friend Cheri and her kids. Everything was going well until Zach went into the parking lot and tripped. He fell and stopped his fall with his left arm ... and skidded down to his elbow and left hip. I was still in the restaurant, so he came in to tell me what had happened and like every good mother of a little boy told him to go into the bathroom and just wash it off and that he would be okay... and he was until we got about half way home and that is when the pain started.... Zach couldn't straighten his left arm ... so off to urgent care we went .... thankfully, our family friend, Jeff, examined him and had them run an xray .... whenever Jeff asked him what happened, Zach told him the story and Jeff said "you need to come up with a better sounding story than that, like, you got hurt playing football or something"
The xray didn't show any break (thank goodness) but since it was hurting to straighten it, they treated it as a sprain (right below the elbow) and put him into a hard splint. Zach was a real trooper and when Jeff was finished getting him "fixed" up, Zach asked the question that had been on his mind since he had fallen an hour and 1/2 earlier ... he asked "I have a football game at 4:30 .... can I still play?" Of course, Jeff told him no ... so Zach left with a heavy heart. Poor little guy! As soon as we walked out of the office, he looked up at me and asked me what time it was, and I told him "4:15 ... you want to go to your game and cheer them on, don't you?" so ... off we went to see his team play. You could tell that he was disappointed that all he could do was stand on the sideline... he tried to help with the water, but it's hard to do that with his less dominant hand (did I mention he is left handed).
I am taking him to his doctor Monday morning so that his regular doc can check him out. We had a friend of mine call today and ask how his arm was doing and how he did it, and when I told her she told me to tell Zach that he's gonna have to come up with a better story than what really happened, one that will impress the girls. :)
He has gotten alot of attention since then, and when I told him that one of my friends called because she heard what happened, he said "Oh my gosh! How is everyone finding out!" Guess word travels fast.... :)
I told him that he can take comfort that so many people are concerned about him ... and that the person who told my friend was one of the coaches when he was talking about team injuries ... my son and another player who actually got hurt during the game.
On a brighter note Zach's team won 19 - 0 and they are now 2-1.
I haven't been feeling good the last few days .... think I have some kind of virus or something.