1)Conditioning and tryouts which consists of a TON of running.
2)Snow and bad weather results in all tryouts and practices being held indoors at varying, crazy times as every Spring sport at the high school now has to share gym time because all athletic fields are covered in snow.
3)Numerous games cancelled or rescheduled because of the weather and field conditions. The only games being played at the beginning of the season are away games to schools with turf fields.
4)Before game 1, Ashley gets slide tackled at practice and hits her head hard on the gym floor. She has to be evaluated for a concussion. Fortunately, she is okay.
5)2nd game of the season she sprains her ankle. It's minor but it swells and she limps around for a while.
6)While her ankle is healing, her other foot starts to hurt. Over the course of the next week and half it gets worse. Thanks to my diagnostic (Google) skills, I'm pretty confident she has a stress fracture in her foot.
7)After a game, her foot is swollen and very painful. I take her to an orthopedist and viola she has a metatarsal stress fracture in her right foot. She is in a surgical shoe and on crutches for 3 weeks and needs a total of 6 weeks to heal. There is only about 5 weeks left of the soccer season. She's done for this year.
Not exactly, a great experience for her. The conditioning was tough and very focused on running because that's all they could do indoors for so long. Stress fractures are overuse injuries and the intensity is probably what did her in. Especially because she was bowling in the winter and didn't play soccer, it basically left her in a position of going from zero to ten when it came to running.
Sadly, she was just starting to hit her stride with soccer. Because she doesn't play on a traveling team, she had to prove herself. The coaches were starting to like her a lot and she was starting and playing the whole game. Although it was hard to not be able to play, it did help for her to see that the team did need her and felt her loss.
The other side of the coin is that the disappointment was mitigated by the fact she could now focus on the school musical. Instead of going to soccer every day and trying to figure out how to squeeze in musical rehearsals, she could now just go to rehearsals every day. She was just as busy but was now on crutches. Looking back, I'm not sure how she could have done both, as each was so demanding.
As for the crutches. That was a huge challenge. First, Ashley is so tall that she was just a big klutzy disaster of arms, legs and crutches. The first day she went to school, I was worried the whole day that she was going to fall and break her leg because of the crutches. Let's just say that using crutches did not come naturally to her.
In addition, we had to start driving Ashley to school from Seminary. She has a very short window from the time Seminary ends and when school starts. Under normal circumstances, she is just barely getting to school on time and has to practically run to class. This was not going to happen on crutches, so Dave and I picked her up early every day from Seminary to get her to school on time and then I would have to rush home to be back in time for the elementary school kids. It definitely added another level of craziness to our routine. Thank goodness it only lasted three weeks.
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