Soccer and Stitches

Edgewood versus Aberdeen. This is usually a pretty easy game for us and it was once again.

Nothing like trying to fix your hair as you run your route!

Another great game for our girls who easily won 6-0, with Savannah contributing a goal.
They played against Bohemia Manor the very next day and that was a much more difficult, physical game in some brutal heat.

Towards the very end of the game Savannah went to head a ball into the goal and, at the same moment, the goalie went to punch it out. The goalie missed the ball and punched Savannah right in the eye! I jumped up in the bleachers because I knew right away this would be a bad one. Savannah didn't even fall, she just staggered a bit and then went right on playing. That didn't last long, however. She started to struggle and at one point a girl from the other team came up to her, put her hand on her shoulder, and asked her if she was okay which alerted the ref to the fact that Savannah was clearly not doing well. The trainer had her put some ice on her eye and by the time I saw her at the end of the game, which we ended up winning 2-1, her eye didn't look that bad. Some of her teammates told me that it had been bleeding but it wasn't at that point. We came home, she took a shower, and then came down to show me her eye. Ummmm, it looked a whole lot worse than when I had seen it earlier. I posted it on Facebook making a funny comment about how she of course she had to have an injury like this 3 days before Homecoming and what a shiner she was going to have. The comments started coming in, one from a friend in high school who is an eye doctor. He advised me to get it looked at because it probably needed some stitches. Yikes! Never a dull moment around here.

So, around 9:00 Savannah and I headed over to Patient First.

Good thing we did because she did need stitches - 5 of them! Now she really looks tough!