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Monday, June 19, 2006First Name Basis  You know it's bad when you are on first name basis with your orthopedic surgeon. That's where I've been this morning with our 16-year-old daughter. She broke her collar bone. Snapped it in two.She was playing sand volleyball at the park with her friends. She's a fierce competitor and the match was tied at 18 (though they were playing to 15). She set the ball straight in the air (rather than to the spiker). So, she scurried backwards to get out of the way. The fella behind her (who also happens to be a linebacker for the football team) went airborne--and collided with my daughter. Both went down. She fell on her left shoulder. He fell on her. And that's when it broke. This will be her third, maybe fourth, bone to break (I can't keep track anymore). She said she was "relieved" it was broken because that justified her inability to get up and "shake it off." She said she didn't want to be a wimp or anything. Brother. Well, the poor boy felt just awful (he's the giant on the left). So he and the other fellas on her team made her a cake. All by themselves. Is that so sweet?  There is nothing you can do for collar bones but wait for them to heal on their own. It will be eight weeks before she's using her arm normally, three months before she can play contact sports. So ... they've scheduled the rematch for three months from now. After all, the game's still tied.
posted by Deeanne at 2:33 PM
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5 Comments:
Well, I'd say she dun good. If ya gotta break yourself, might as well do it by bein' crushed by a cute hunka man! Great job Little Gist Girl!
4:24 PM
Yeah, I have to say, she was enjoying the attention. And those boys make a mean cake. It was yummy!
4:38 PM
Oh, I'm with you, Barb. Those sweethearts are just cutie-pie hunks. And baking a cake? Little Gist Girl did good! *g* Them's are keepers!
10:48 PM
Ouch! I broke my collarbone and while it healed quickly, it was miserable! (I'm right handed, broke the right collarbone.)
I remember sitting on the couch watching TV. The phone was sitting on the arm of the couch on my right. It rang.
Well, of course I cannot grab it with my right hand, so I leaned over and grabbed it with my left. As soon as the call ended, I tried to sit back up and I couldn't. I'm leaning to the right and trying to use my left hand to push myself up and I just couldn't do it. My balance was way off and I just kept sliding more to my right, which at some point was really going to hurt if I ended up falling over onto my broken collarbone.
I was home alone so my only option was to roll off of the couch so that I could get up.
My family has made fun of me for years because of that!
12:12 AM
I have never broken a bone in my body (knock on wood). But I feel so sorry for her. Our collar bones are so close to the skin that I can actually see where one-half of her bone is going one direction and the other half is going the other. Poor thing!
She broke her left and she's right handed, so that has made a *huge* difference in how mobil she is.
11:29 AM
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