Mallet Finger

On the last day of strength and conditioning

and ONE WEEK before 7th grade football

camp & two weeks before baseball tryouts,

Walker was at a baseball

lesson in the evening

 ~ throwing a FOOTBALL;) ~

and hurt his finger.

A doctor who happened to be at

the practice, immediately said,

"Walker has a mallet finger."

I thought it was a joke.  I had

never even heard of that, so

we quickly headed to the Urgent Care.

A couple of X-Rays later

and a call to our doctor who

was on vacation, we learned that

Walker did indeed have 

"MALLET FINGER"!

It's the strangest injury because it

doesn't hurt and it just looks kinda odd.

BUT he was told he couldn't 

catch or throw or hit!!! 

Are you kidding me?!?

This was Walker's first "injury" per say...

and unfortunately probably won't be 

his last.  As minor as it was, he 

quickly realized how bad getting

an injury can stink.  

He was told to keep it in this

splint 24/7.  The finger needed

to be kept as straight as possible 

at all times for the next week 

and then see a hand doctor.  

Since Daddy and Walker had so much

riding on this, we all had to go 

with them to see what the doctor had

to say!  Walker went to the doctor

on the first day of football camp,

and thankfully he didn't need to do

any throwing or catching that first day.

We were hoping that the doctor

would clear Walker for those things, 

but he didn't.  He said he really 

needed to hold off for a couple of 

more weeks on catching/throwing/hitting!

Uggggggggggggg!

Then Big Huds thought he

had a MALLET FINGER, too!  ;)

The doctor slowly but surely

released Walker to do more 

and more, and he made it through

football camp just fine.  The coaches

taught him a different way of catching

to get him by so he wouldn't be behind.

He didn't get to hit at baseball tryouts

since he couldn't wrap his hand around

the bat, but he still did awesome

and the coaches took into account

what they already knew about his hitting.

The doctor released Walker shortly after

school started!  YAY!  

He was free to play football and baseball.

Major crisis averted;)  HA!

This situation made for a great lesson.  

One, on how things happen

and sometimes there is just not much

we can do about them - 

other than to learn from them 

and move on and continue to try our best.  

It was ALSO a great lesson in 

how if this is the worst thing

to happen as of late,

then we need to be THANKFUL

and count our blessings even moreso!!!