My Dumb Ass Self

What is it about me and a baseball/softball diamond?

Nearly 8 years ago, I broke my tibia and tore a ligament in my left knee playing softball. After many weeks of healing and P.T. (not to mention a butt load of money) I recovered and was banned from playing unless I could back off and not play full bore (yea right). So I haven't played since.

If you have read my previous posts, you know I coached my daughter's fast pitch team and now I am coaching the team that will represent Newton in the state tournament this weekend.

Now that the foundation has been laid down, here we go.

Last week at practice, I was hitting grounders to the infielders so they could practice fielding and throwing. No big deal, so after about 240 grounders we stopped that part of practice and went on. When I got up Sunday I noticed that my heel was hurting pretty bad, and I just figured I had over done it and it would work itself out by the end of the day. Well it didn't and in fact it got worse and the day went on. So I iced it and elevated it, took some Advil and went to bed. About 2:00am I was woken up out of a dead sleep by the most God awful pain in my foot. It was so bad that when I tried to get up... I couldn't. So I stayed awake the rest of the night... Fast forward to Monday (yesterday) at 1:30, I go to the Doctor and he says, after the exam, and I quote "I am not going to touch this, you need to see and orthopedic surgeon, I believe you have a partially detached calcaneal tendon"t o which my response was "oh #$@@%, here we go again. What's funny about this whole thing is that I was not playing ball but coaching, but it was on the same field and the previous injury, so maybe that field has it in for me?

Needless to say, I am not looking forward to Thursday when I go to the orthopedic surgeon. Hopefully he will say that the family doc just over reacted and it's just inflamed. But until then I'm back on crutches (glad we kept them from before) , and hobbling around.

Oh yeah, I'm still coaching the team... I've gone too far with this team just to turn it over to another coach. Come hell or high water, I will be in Rose Hill this weekend with my team, and we're still planning on laying waste to any and all the teams that we face. Here a PICTURE of the team