MCL

For the last month or so, Elizabeth has been playing winter lacrosse for two different teams.  We drive 35 minutes (each way) on Sunday mornings and afternoons so she can get in the extra touches in the game she loves so much.  In mid-February, she scored a brilliant goal in an early morning game and then took a tumble.  And didn't get up.  As this is completely uncharacteristic for her, the coaches and Lee were on the field pretty quickly, and then me.  She couldn't feel her toes or foot, couldn't move off of the ground.  Lee carried her off the field and we headed straight to the ER. Along the way, she regained feeling in her foot and ankle, but her knee was starting to bruise and swell. After three hours in the emergency room, we learned that there were no broken bones, and that the injury was likely not to her ACL, but that was about it.  It's been a frustrating ten days, but after an MRI and two appointments with the orthopedic surgeon, who thought that it could be a torn MCL or meniscus, we finally got a diagnosis and a plan.  The MRI showed no tears, but did show a sprain of the MCL.  She will be in physical therapy for the next four to six weeks, but if all goes well, she will be medically clearly by the time lacrosse season starts.

The goal.

Waiting in the ER.

After XRays

She's in a pretty good mood for a kid that can't walk.