At my daughter's last beam rotation (level 7), on her BHS last series, her left hand slipped off the beam and somehow she smacked the top of her dominant foot really badly on the top beam as she was falling. She has had pain in the top of the foot ever since and is now in a boot.
The grieving process is difficult. We had to cancel our trip out of state today for a meet this weekend that we were really looking foward to. Right now, she is getting an MRI so that the doctor can tell us how long she will be off her foot completely. From initial inspection, he said anywhere from 2weeks to 3 months. The X-ray shows no fracture but a little suspicious joint spacing between two metatarsals. The initial urgent care doctor and radiologist saw nothing in the x-ray, but this doctor is an orthopedist specializing in the foot. However, there is little appearance of bruising or swelling and the pain seems to be diminishing slightly from the first morning, so I hope that is a good sign.
The good news is that she's competed 4 times already, and had two amazing meets (placing 1st AA, and scoring above 38) and two great meets (scoring above 37). So we can be glad that she had a great level 7 season despite joining so late.
Her next meet after today is in 3 weeks, and then she has states in 7 weeks and regionals in 10 weeks. We think in the typical case, she should be able to compete states. But I'm also worried how being off her foot for a month will affect her skills and her confidence level and that she can get hurt exactly the same way again. Is it common to have your hand accidentally slip off the beam and is the accident part more the way she landed? I'm hoping now that this happened, she'll be more careful about her hand position on the BHS.
The grieving process is difficult. We had to cancel our trip out of state today for a meet this weekend that we were really looking foward to. Right now, she is getting an MRI so that the doctor can tell us how long she will be off her foot completely. From initial inspection, he said anywhere from 2weeks to 3 months. The X-ray shows no fracture but a little suspicious joint spacing between two metatarsals. The initial urgent care doctor and radiologist saw nothing in the x-ray, but this doctor is an orthopedist specializing in the foot. However, there is little appearance of bruising or swelling and the pain seems to be diminishing slightly from the first morning, so I hope that is a good sign.
The good news is that she's competed 4 times already, and had two amazing meets (placing 1st AA, and scoring above 38) and two great meets (scoring above 37). So we can be glad that she had a great level 7 season despite joining so late.
Her next meet after today is in 3 weeks, and then she has states in 7 weeks and regionals in 10 weeks. We think in the typical case, she should be able to compete states. But I'm also worried how being off her foot for a month will affect her skills and her confidence level and that she can get hurt exactly the same way again. Is it common to have your hand accidentally slip off the beam and is the accident part more the way she landed? I'm hoping now that this happened, she'll be more careful about her hand position on the BHS.