It's always something with this child.
This happened up in Rexburg two months ago...she ran into a door...only one of the many accidents or mishaps she has experienced over the past 6 months. And it hurt. I remember her calling when it happened..but she didn't want to make the time or go out of her way to 'get it taken care of'. So, since being home, she has complained about it...several times...and so now, three weeks before leaving on our family cruise, she FINALLY decides it's time to go have it checked by the orthopedic surgeon.
Of course, it's fractured. Of course, she has been playing volleyball on it for weeks and weeks...even running on it...and of course, she's now too late to have anything done on it during this semester break before going on the cruise and then back up to school. So, we will have to wait until Christmas break....
And of course, I am...frustrated. It will end up just like her index finger on her right hand that she injured playing volleyball in middle school..and then again, re-injured in high school but didn't want to take the time then to 'take care of it' and now, she has it permanently pointing the wrong way.
I look back now and see more than a few times that I should have insisted on being a parent and making a few grown up decisions instead of allowing her to make the choices that were convenient to her at the time. Consequences...
I'm afraid this 'boot' is going to come back to kick her in the butt.
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Heading to Alaska for another cruise ourselves,September 13-20. Mom, dad, and all us siblings and spouses. You will love the Caribbean...very pretty. We were there when the Haiti earthquake hit...didn't feel a thing.
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