Brittney

Brittney injured her foot/ankle a few months ago doing some stunting/tumbling during the cheer season, which required an emergency room visit. It still hasn't healed properly and is preventing her from competing in gymnastics. The orthopedic doctor wanted her to have an MRI. It was scheduled for last Monday but was complicated by the fact that school was 2 hrs late for my other kids and then the MRI machine wasn't working properly. So I got to hang out in the hospital waiting room with 4 of my kids for two hours until Joni Weber rescued them and took them to school!

The verdict from the doctor after the MRI is:
Brittney has a bone adema (bruise to her bone) and her tendons have had a stress response to it. Basically, one of her bones slammed into another one of her bones and everything she does including walking, continues to put stress on the injury. She will be back in a boot for at least three weeks (no gymnastics). They are hoping this will give the tendons enough time to heal and the swelling to go down. Then she'll start up with physical therapy again. For anyone counting, the boot should come off three days before we leave for Guatemala. We juggled quite a few schedules, including the doctor's, to get Brittney  in to the doctor in Sioux Falls on the 31st to see if she's healed enough for the boot to come off.

It's still possible that she'll be able to compete the last month of the gymnastics season. But if not, there's always next year.
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