Courtney's finger

I am not a huge fan of football during PE. It's not that I don't like football, it's that BOTH of our kids have fractured a finger during PE football. 

Courtney cane home from school yesterday saying that her finger hurt. I put a splint on it and gave her some Tylenol. When she woke up this morning and we unwrapped it, her finger was purple and bent. So I made an appointment for her with the doctor, checked her out of school a bit early, and went to see what was up.

After X-rays, the doctor thought it was just jammed. He took our splint and taped her two fingers together. But before we left he decided to check the X-ray one more time. The tech had been able to look at it and reported that there was a fracture. So off came the tape and on went an elaborate, cast-link removable splint. He gave her a doctor's note to get out of orchestra because her left hand now only has 2 fingers poking out. 

We go back in 3 weeks to check her progress and get rid of the splint. It's nice because it is one you can easily remove to shower. 

The joys! Yes, she is ok her soccer uniform because she had a game tonight. We may have to wrap the splint in more ace bandages o make it "softer" if the ref deems it too hard. 

By the way, it's the middle finger so when she had it wrapped it looked like she was flipping everyone off. 😜

No violin for her for 3 weeks.