May 13, 2010
A Bum Wheel
We're on the final countdown for school--just one week and one day left to go and then we're home free and summer is upon us. And what better way to celebrate the coming of the hazy lazy days of summer packed with trips to the beach, a wedding appearance, and summer camps than with a broken toe?
Not my toe (I gave up summer camp ages ago). Chase's toe. Swollen, bruised, broken.
Yes, seasons of playing soccer--known for its heavy foot involvement--and seasons of playing lacrosse where the name of the game is to get the ball into the net while the other teams beats you with sticks, shoves you around, knocks you down and tramples right over you never resulted in a broken anything. But toss the boy into a seemingly harmless, indoor kickball game in P.E. at school and voila! an injury that will rear its ugly head at the most inopportune times to disrupt all sorts of planned fun for the next 4-12 weeks. Hell, it couldn't even have a more dialed in and specific healing time for crying out loud. Nothing positive coming out of the broken toe experience yet. Other than Chase's shortlived excitement over his "first broken bone." First?
In the overall scheme of things, a broken toe is far from the worst thing that could happen, I know. But the timing stinks for him just the same. It'll sure make hobbling down the aisle at my brother's beach wedding interesting.
Still. Better to be sleeping in mornings with a broken toe than waking for school at 6:30 a.m. with a perfectly good wheel. Come on, summer!
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