Designated Cuddler

It's been almost a week since my last post. Last Tuesday night, in our first soccer game, I dove for a ball and messed up my shoulder pretty good. It wasn't until this morning that I could move my arm more than a couple inches away from my body. I had PROMISED the boys that I could take them to the creek with our playgroup last Wednesday, so that posed a bit of a dilemma... Gaven had a Dr.'s appt. at 8:30am, playgroup was at 10am and my Dr.'s appt. was at 11:40am. We went to Gav's appt. and sure enough 2 more ear infections. If he's not cleared up after these, they'll look into a serious of antibiotics given in 3 shots... then possibly tubes, but we'll just hope he clears up!

After that, we headed to the creek. I'm not sure how I was accomplishing anything... my pain level on a scale from 1-10 was a 10 and my range of motion about a "0". A promise is a promise, though, so we went. We were there early before anyone else because I knew we would have to leave early to get to my appt. It's such a great little place for the kids to play fairly safely. Other than some sharp and a few slippery rocks, there's really nothing to worry about. There's a small little current that runs from the "top" of the creek down to the bottom. The boys' favorite part is riding their tubes down the current. Here they are, trekking back up to the top.

I wasn't about the let THIS one out for long. I took him down to the water for a bit, holding on with my good arm, but once I made a SMALL little slip on a rock and instinctively moved my bad arm a centimeter, I was done with that.

It turns out the X-rays were clear, nothing to go by from those. It doesn't rule out any sort of a partial tear or anything like that, so at this point it's just a waiting game to see how quickly it improves... if not quick enough, they'll take a closer look with some different scans.

In lieu of my recent injury, Braeden stepped up in the cuddle department. Gav woke up from his nap one day and climbed up on the couch next to him and this is what I found:

Those blankets must be magic...

I guess when you've become designated cuddler, everyone takes advantage!

(sorry about the red-eye, I didn't realize it until I had uploaded already)

So I have to say, a week later, I'm finally starting to feel some improvement in my shoulder. I can move it quite a bit more than that first day after. The pain is still pretty high on my scale, but I'm hoping that will get better as well.

Is it too much to ask to want to get back playing soccer with my team??? ...

TONIGHT??!!