Post by karencole on Dec 13, 2013 1:11:26 GMT
Or buy into a Bubble Wrap factory!!! So this started last spring, Levi is a distance runner and he loves to run.....7-10 miles every day! except for Sundays. Anyway, in doing so he built up a set of muscles but not all of them...distance runners don't use them all equally. In building htem up he got them so strong his tail bone ceased to flex and locked in and his hips were pulled out of sinc. We were told he had an IT band injury and to rest him, we did, when pain free he started to run again and had to get pulled as the season started. So he rested and rested and rested some more , he finally started in slow and the pain returned, now it's off for Xrays (July) Xrays were fuzzy so that turned into an MRI which came back normal. Finally we get him into PT and the problem is figured out 
after 4 weeks of PT he is ok'd to run ......he runs in TWO races!!!!! The second race he jams his foot into a hole (VERY trashy course) half way through, hurts for a couple of days, we go for Xrays they come back clean. He takes a week off and starts to run again, cowboys up and manages after having most of the spring off and all summer then about a month of Cross off to make the High School Regional Cross Country Team!!! Yeah we were so proud of him, he ran in the low 18's , I don't think I could run 1 mile in 18 minutes let alone 3.2.
So now it's Wrestling season....a pattern is forming....Tuesday nite he's live wrestling and hurts his foot , his right foot the same one he jammed in the hole. A bit of ice some tylonal and he wrestles Wednesday nite. He went 3 rounds and lost in points to a kid that nobody (per a Mom from his team) goes 3 rounds with. Levi thought he wasn't that good and could have beaten him. I said so why didn't you? He said because I could not put my weight on my right foot to get up off the matt. Soooooo today we went to the Chiroprator for an adjustment and Xrays. GUESS WHAT?!?! HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS BROKEN DURRING CROSS COUNTRY!!!! You could clearly see the break! He broke it just behind the big knuckle as the bone is going up the foot. So he ran ALL of the Cross season on a broken foot and still made Regionals and still was very competitive!! He missed going to State by mere seconds!!!
He's been cleared to Wrestle, lots of ice and more excercises but should be fine. The foot healed wonky but nothing can be done with it at this point.
So my next question who would like to adopt a VERY smart young man but slightly danger prone? Ohhhh he's good at debate too! He can convice you it's midnite and freezing cold even if it's noon and 90 out. He's really quite funny too JK of course but man Iam thinking he needs to stick to the lab and let the sports go!!!
after 4 weeks of PT he is ok'd to run ......he runs in TWO races!!!!! The second race he jams his foot into a hole (VERY trashy course) half way through, hurts for a couple of days, we go for Xrays they come back clean. He takes a week off and starts to run again, cowboys up and manages after having most of the spring off and all summer then about a month of Cross off to make the High School Regional Cross Country Team!!! Yeah we were so proud of him, he ran in the low 18's , I don't think I could run 1 mile in 18 minutes let alone 3.2.So now it's Wrestling season....a pattern is forming....Tuesday nite he's live wrestling and hurts his foot , his right foot the same one he jammed in the hole. A bit of ice some tylonal and he wrestles Wednesday nite. He went 3 rounds and lost in points to a kid that nobody (per a Mom from his team) goes 3 rounds with. Levi thought he wasn't that good and could have beaten him. I said so why didn't you? He said because I could not put my weight on my right foot to get up off the matt. Soooooo today we went to the Chiroprator for an adjustment and Xrays. GUESS WHAT?!?! HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS BROKEN DURRING CROSS COUNTRY!!!! You could clearly see the break! He broke it just behind the big knuckle as the bone is going up the foot. So he ran ALL of the Cross season on a broken foot and still made Regionals and still was very competitive!! He missed going to State by mere seconds!!!
He's been cleared to Wrestle, lots of ice and more excercises but should be fine. The foot healed wonky but nothing can be done with it at this point.
So my next question who would like to adopt a VERY smart young man but slightly danger prone? Ohhhh he's good at debate too! He can convice you it's midnite and freezing cold even if it's noon and 90 out. He's really quite funny too
JK of course but man Iam thinking he needs to stick to the lab and let the sports go!!!
