It all started at football try outs. Austin got tackled and landed on his knee hard. It swelled up to the size of a softball. It was painful and bruised. He stayed off of it for a good week and went to practice. Landed on the same knee again. Hurts more now. So off to our Sports Medicine doctor. He's amazing by the way! Anyway's Dr. Brinton took an x-ray and wasn't 100% sure if he had fractured his femur or not just by the knee cap. He recommended that Austin have an MRI to make sure there wasn't any serious injury. So, to IMC we went. Poor kid was scared to death. Of course he had never been to a hospital for himself and what the heck is an MRI?! So I tried my best to calm his nerves and I was able to stay in the room as long as I wore these awesome ear plugs! I took about an hour to have the images taken. I had no idea that the machine would be so loud as the magnets spun around to get the image. It was interesting. Austin did great at holding still and they got the images sent to the doc. Luckily Dr. Brinton said there were no fractures! YES! On the down side the tendon that goes underneath the knee cap had some inflammation so he wasn't allowed to do any running or playing for 3 weeks! It about killed Austin to sit on the sidelines and watch. He finally got the go ahead this week to start playing football. Let's hope the rest of the season is injury free!!
Here's the handsome kid already in his hospital pants and stylin' slippers!
(Austin has decided that next year he is playing fall baseball. He's sick of getting hurt!)
