Eli's Sore Foot!

Eli has had kind of a rough week. He fell at Kara’s house on Tuesday and hurt his foot. Kara and I both didn’t think much of it at first, but he continued to complain about it hurting and he would limp on and off. Tuesday night we had our first basketball game, so it was kind of crazy around our house, but Trent looked at his foot, and it was really swollen, and bruised. So after my game on Tuesday (which we won! YEAH) I asked our Athletic Trainer to look at it. She recommended that we take him in, cause it was really swollen and with kids and growth plates, etc it was better to be safe than sorry. So Yesterday I called the clinic and got him in. The doctor said he had really done a good job on his foot. He X-rayed it, and said that it wasn’t broken, but that it might have a small fracture (it is really hard to tell with kids of his age. Most of their foot is still cartilage! He had definitely broken blood vessels, and damaged tissue. He also said that he may have hurt the cartilage, but there is no way to see that. So, NO cast, just keep him off it as much as possible! Ha ha! Have you meet Eli! He also recommended that we have him wear a hard soled shoe for a couple weeks. Well, That is great, but the swelling (as of the morning) had still not gone down enough that it didn’t hurt him to put a shoe on! By this morning he was definitely walking better! Today was Pajama day at Preschool, so the good news is that he could get away with out wearing shoes! Ha ha!