Tim football: playing well; then a fluke injury on the sideline

Ugh.

Below is Tim’s last play on Saturday, as he lead blocks for a successful two point extra point run. Tim is # 40.

After the score, Tim headed for the sideline to get the kicking tee (since he kicks off) – and then he injured his knee when his foot got caught in the webbing of one of the ball bags.

Sounds absurd, but he really hurt himself; serious pain, couldn’t continue to play, and could barely walk. I took him to the White Plains Hospital ER (the game was played in Marine Park in Brooklyn, against Xavier HS) where he was X-ray’d (negative for a break), given a knee immobilizer wrap, and crutches.

His knee has moderate swelling – on the outside primarily, and he’s been icing it and taking Advil. I was given the names of orthopedists who specialize in knee stuff, and will be calling them first thing Monday AM. Could be a sprain, or torn ligament(!), or cartilage damage – we’ll have to find out. Even in a best case scenario he’ll be out for most of the rest of the season. A worst case would be surgery and months of rehab. Double ugh!

He is feeling a bit better now, hobbling around. Tim was quite distraught yesterday; when you are 14 years old and involved in a sport, an injury is crushing. Of course Brigid and I felt terrible.

So we’ll see – here’s his last play. He lead blocks into the end zone – # 40 – ignore his excited father calling out at the end –