Thursday, May 7, 2009

Getting Cleared for Softball

Early this morning, I went to my doctor's appointment to get a check up for my shoulder. It was scheduled for 9:10 am so I decided to go to school after my appointment. When I got there, I had to pay my $15 co-pay, which I didn't have anyway so my grandma paid, and then like 2 minutes later, I got called in. I sat on those cot-bed things and waited until Dr. Daniels got done with his other patient. When he finally came over to me, he asked me various questions pertaining to my shoulder, like if it still hurts, or have I done anything softball-related with it, so on and so forth. Then after I answered the questions, he made me do exercises to check out my shoulder and see if it is strong enough to continue playing. Then he asked me about my medication, the Advil I'm supposed to be taking twice-a-day, and told me to cut it down to once-a-day. Then he said that me shoulder was good, but the only bad news he said was that I'd have to wait until next week to play! It was because I hadn't been doing anything for two weeks because my coaches and the trainer wouldn't let me! He said that athletes that get hurt usually have to wait a few days before they get back into the mix. I wanted to cry! And I kind of did because my eyes started to tear up and he saw that and asked if I was about to cry. I nodded and he felt bad and said that if my shoulder didn't hurt then I'd be able to play tomorrow for the game against West Deptford. I was soo happy! Happy enough to want to give him a hug but I decided against it. I was just excited because now I can play the rest of the season, even though we only have a few games left, which sucks because I really wanted to play hard for my last year. But it can't be helped now, I'm just glad that I can finally play. But now I don't think that I'll be playing because of the weather. It's raining cats and dogs out there, but hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to play.

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  1. Yesterday, it was raining cats, dogs, elephants, and chimpanzees!

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