Broken

 After much debate, I decided to join a contact flag football team this season. It felt inapprpriate at first, but I decided we need to live life, and I need to get off my butt and be active. I joined a team different than my one from the previous season, because most of those guys are protecting us. Our second game was last week, and we had been obliterated the week before. 

Early in the game, I tried to make an end zone catch, but the defender and I both landed on the ground, with him landing on my arm. It hurt a little, but certainly not enough to come out. I stayed in, and made 2 touchdown catches in the game after the injury - with one being a contsted catch over my head. We won 13-7 (I also had a TD taken off the board because of a badly blown whistle).

I got home and it started to hurt. I shook it off, took Hila and Hadar shopping, and when we got back it really hurt. I was pretty sure I sprained it. Shifra sent me to terem for xrays, and they put a cast on. On Sunday, the orthopedist confirmed that I broke my scaphoid. Suprisingly, it as my first ever break. I am now in a cast for about 8 weeks. 

It stopped hurting a few days later luckily, but I am very limited. I unfortunately cannot wash dishes, change diapers, or do much around the house. 

I can no longer say I have never broken anything. And I can certainly say that if this was it for my season, I am happy I stayed in and went out like that. Eitan asked me if I was going to play football again when I can. I told him, I certainly am. We don't stop doing things we love because we are scared about the what if.