We were enjoying Blake's first outdoor soccer game of the spring season when I noticed him hopping over to the sidelines. I was busy attending to the kids and chatting with the other wives that I missed the actual play. Blake got over to the side and said, "My leg is broke!" At first I wasn't sure if he was serious. He stated he had planted all his weight on his left leg and went to kick the ball with his right foot when some guy came and kicked him in the left leg. He said he heard his bone snap and fell to the ground; once he stood up he could not bear any weight on it. I was shocked that a kick to the leg would break it.
We headed home and decided since it was Friday night we would just watch the leg over the weekend; since the ER wouldn't be able to put him in a cast if his leg was actually broke. We got home got some ibuprofen in him, elevated his leg and started to ice it. Not even an hour in, Blake started to experience spasms in his leg and at that point I knew he had broken it. We ended up getting some muscle relaxers to help with the spasms, but with the pain and swelling increasing, we decided to head to the ER.
Getting x-rays in the ER
Elevating, icing, and waiting and waiting. The ER ended up giving Blake some pain medicine to help work along with the muscle relaxers
Blake earned himself a nice boot that went up to his knee. According to the x-rays, Blake did in fact break the Tibia, the large inner bone to the lower part of the leg. Blake was to wear the boot for the weekend and the ER Dr. was so nice and called our Orthopedic Dr.at 11 pm on a Friday just to give him a heads up we would be coming in Monday morning
Monday morning we headed into the Orthopedic office and Dr. Lawler said the ER visit was probably our best money spent . The break Blake had was a clean break down the middle of the bone and that because of it's placement it could have shifted and required him to need surgery if he had not placed it it the boot and sat on the couch ALL weekend; orders given by the ER Dr. Dr. Lawler also said he has rarely seen someone break the tibia without breaking the filbula as well which also requires surgery, so we were feeling really lucky at this point.
Our new orders given were Dr. Lawler put Blake in a cast for 3-4 weeks and told him he was non-weight bearing and to use crutches the entire time. We were to go back weekly for x-rays to see how everything was heeling, if anything was changing, or if there was a need for surgery.
Although Blake has broken 15+ bones in his life and had numerous casts, he has never once broken a leg bone or ended up with a cast to his leg.
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