"The Injury"

The last week of January ended up being far too exciting. Tyler plays soccer on an indoor soccer league and has enjoyed doing so for a number years. He has always managed to come away without any injury .... that is until now. Shortly after halftime the ball was coming toward Tyler at chest level so he went down to head the ball and an opponent also decided to go for the ball but decided to use a high kick (BIG no, no in soccer). Tyler's face and the other guy's foot collided, BUT Tyler did head the ball into the goal. YEA! After falling to the ground, Tyler jumped up and played the rest of the game giving no indications that anything might be wrong. After the game as the players gathered together it didn't take long for them to realize something was definitely wrong with Tyler. He was talking in little circle (15-30 seconds)and found everything SO funny. His buddy decided Tyler was definitely not fit to drive so he drove Tyler home and when they got home it was quite clear to me that Tyler was not right. Of course this was one of their late games so it is almost midnight. After arranging for my dad to come be with my kids, I loaded up Tyler and headed down to the ER. All of this time he is still talking in little circles and laughing A LOT. All of this scans turned out clear so he was diagnosed with a concussion; yeah, nothing lasting or serious. The awful part of the situation for me was that from midnight until 4:00am Tyler kept asking "What happened?" and "What time is it?" over, and over, and over and if I didn't act like I was genuinely happy to answer those questions for the millionth time in the middle of night he would get all worked up. Luckily he finally got tired and when to sleep at 4:00am. We did have to stay at the hospital the next day because he was slow at coming around in his short term memory but by the next day he was showing enough improvement they let us go home. The next week was spent with Tyler sleeping a lot and finding his marbles but we are happy to report that he now doing great and only lost 3 days. What an adventure. Let's NOT do that again!