Not asking for medical advice. Just complaining.
Last weekend at her meet, Kathy turned her ankle in floor warm-up (last event, luckily). She made a face, limped a couple of steps, and said "I'm fine" and went on to do her routine (her lowest score on floor this season, but she got through it). I'll admit, I didn't think much of it after that. The meet was close to home so we had people over after the meet... kids (Kathy included) running through the house, etc. No complaints on Sunday, went to practice as usual this week. Yesterday she mentions "remember how I turned my ankle at the meet? Well, it's still hurting." but then no other complaints. Today they didn't have school so my husband took both Kathy and her sister hiking in the snow. Tonight at practice she was running laps and clearly limping. Now it's swollen. I feel like an idiot for not realizing it was an issue and making her take it easy this week. We're off for a family trip to Great Wolf Lodge tomorrow morning, so making her take it easy this weekend will be as easy as hearding cats. I told her that if it was still bothering her on Monday, she will have to go to the doctor, and she's worried about missing practice time between now and sectionals because she REALLY wants to qualify for states. Kathy's always had a high tolerance for pain (when she and her twin sister were babies, if Tory was crying and pulling on her ears I always made the dr. check Kathy's ears too, even though she wasn't complaining... invariably she had the same ear infection) which probably serves her well in gymnastics, but sometimes I wish she WOULD let pain stop her because, well, that's what pain is supposed to do, isn't it? Slow you down enough so that you can recover? I'm very frustrated by the situation, especially because I feel certain that if she had just taken it easy for a couple of days, we wouldn't be in this situation now.
Last weekend at her meet, Kathy turned her ankle in floor warm-up (last event, luckily). She made a face, limped a couple of steps, and said "I'm fine" and went on to do her routine (her lowest score on floor this season, but she got through it). I'll admit, I didn't think much of it after that. The meet was close to home so we had people over after the meet... kids (Kathy included) running through the house, etc. No complaints on Sunday, went to practice as usual this week. Yesterday she mentions "remember how I turned my ankle at the meet? Well, it's still hurting." but then no other complaints. Today they didn't have school so my husband took both Kathy and her sister hiking in the snow. Tonight at practice she was running laps and clearly limping. Now it's swollen. I feel like an idiot for not realizing it was an issue and making her take it easy this week. We're off for a family trip to Great Wolf Lodge tomorrow morning, so making her take it easy this weekend will be as easy as hearding cats. I told her that if it was still bothering her on Monday, she will have to go to the doctor, and she's worried about missing practice time between now and sectionals because she REALLY wants to qualify for states. Kathy's always had a high tolerance for pain (when she and her twin sister were babies, if Tory was crying and pulling on her ears I always made the dr. check Kathy's ears too, even though she wasn't complaining... invariably she had the same ear infection) which probably serves her well in gymnastics, but sometimes I wish she WOULD let pain stop her because, well, that's what pain is supposed to do, isn't it? Slow you down enough so that you can recover? I'm very frustrated by the situation, especially because I feel certain that if she had just taken it easy for a couple of days, we wouldn't be in this situation now.