War Wounds

Tyler is playing summer league AAU at the moment. Monday night he had an 8:30 game in Mabton. So we were in Pasco at 4 for Kendra's volleyball game, headed home as soon as she was done and had just enough time to scarf down some dinner before we headed to Mabton for Tyler's basketball game. He had a great first quarter. Was playing very aggressively, getting some steals and blocks and hustling down the court. Then right at the beginning of the second quarter he went in for a lose ball and ended up in a pile of bodies on the floor. The other players got up fairly quickly but Tyler wasn't moving. We all thought he was just being kind of slow and needed a minute to catch his breath or something. His coach even commented.."he's a farm kid. He's good!' And then we heard him start crying, he lifted up his head and there was blood everywhere! His coach ran out on to the court to help him, blood was running through Tylers hands that were covering his mouth. We all assumed he had lost some teeth! Got him off the court and out into the hall by a sink and by that point he had blood running down his arms and dripping off his elbows. When we finally got the bleeding stopped.....we were shocked to see just a tiny small cut in his lip where it looked like a tooth had went through.

All that mess for a cut lip!! We figured that was the end of it and by the next day he would be just fine. But.....

Two days later and the swelling still seems to be getting worse instead of better! He is complaining of a sore tooth as well. A friend of ours who was at the game and is a dental hygienist, checked his teeth out right away when it had happened and they didn't seem to be lose at all. However, she said that it's very possible that he fractured a root or damaged a nerve which could cause a tooth to die. So for now, we're waiting a couple of days for the swelling to go down and then we'll see what we're dealing with!

Coach Cass happened to be working in the Mabton gym that day and helped with the clean up. I had to get a picture of her and Kendra together! Partially because we love Coach Cass!! But also, because it's kind of funny to see the two of them side by side:)