Narrative

Ankita Sarah Cook

Soccer Injuries

It was May 8th, 2011 it was Mothers Day. I felt so bad that my Mom had to miss the Mothers Day brunch with my aunt and my grandma and she had to drive me to my soccer game that day. The game was in Maine.

Keke was excited for the game except for the fact that there was a little pit of gilt in me and Keke had no idea how to get rid of it. And the other bad thing is that Keke had a feeling that she was gonna get hurt that game, she didn’t know what it was but there was something inside of her like, she felt nervous for that game. When she got out of the car Keke put on a positive face and attitude for her team since she’s the Head Captain for the team. Before the game starts she had a vision of her getting hurt but it was a hurt like a moment when someone just gets the wind knocked out of them. When she had that vision she was so happy because it was something that Keke’s body could handle.

The ref blows the whistle and she was having a great game and she is leading the team to a good start. Telling them what to do is something what she didn’t mind but she doesn’t want people to think that she is a control freak though so sometimes she didn’t tell them what to do because she also want’s them to play there game not just her way. But the people she is responsible for is the four back defenders plus her including that four. They like her help because they need engorgement and help with how much speed they need to use for a player and how far they need to stay back behind the opposing team, who they need watch, that’s her job as the Head Captain.

It was the second half and the score was 0-0 and the team wasn’t mad about the score that just meant that we were playing soccer and good defense all around the field. She never got subbed out if the game because they need her back on defense because of her speed. Directing the team can be a hard process though because they might not like the idea of what they want you to do.The other team got the ball from me and than the girl turned around and started to head toward me. Now the girl with the ball dribbled toward her and Becky the other defender on her team said “PRESSURE HER.” So Keke did that because that is her job as a defender. So the girl on the other team faked left took the ball to the right and she followed the motion of the girl as if she was looking into a mirror. But when she went to the right, she was moving that way but her right leg wasn’t wanting to move that way. While she was trying in that motion she felt something inside her knee move to the right and with that Keke also heard a crack in the knee and she was in pain so much. Every time Keke gets hurts or if she can’t be there for her team, she feels that she let the team down and failed them because she isn’t helping them. When she went down the ref didn’t blow the whistle because the other team had position of the ball in the goalie box so at that point the ref can’t blow the whistle and Keke was crying in pain, she was holding onto her knee as if she was trying to protect it from the players around her and the ball because they were playing around her any ways. Finally the ref blew the whistle and her coach came onto the field and was talking to Keke, asking, “Keke are you okay?” “Can you stand up?” At first Keke shock her head yes but when she tried to get up she couldn’t put any pressure on it because than she would fall over because she didn’t have the strength to walk or straighten her leg. At that moment when she couldn’t move or get up for that matter one of the players parents on her team asked if she needed help getting off the field, and that moment her coach said, “ Yes, please.” After the two dads came on to the field and carried her off the field. Keke was still crying because she was in pain. She sat on the sideline and rapped pre-rap on her leg and she had some ice on top of it. Her mom came over and sat with her, but the problem is sometimes Keke gets embarrassed when she’s with her mother. Keke’s mom suggested that they go to the hospital afterwards and get it checked out because we don’t know if the injury is bad or not. So she didn’t get to the hospital for about 3-4 hours after the injury because it was Mothers Day and she wanted to stop at grandma’s house so that her mother could with her grandmother a happy Mothers Day. Keke was not going to take NO for an answer her mother missed spending a lunch with her mother because she had a soccer game.

Know that she is at the hospital she was gonna get an x-ray for her knee. It didn’t take long for the x-ray. After that was done they had said that Keke had some bruised ligaments in the knee. When she was lying on the bed they asked if she could walk and she had said “ no.” So she was gonna get crutches and before that they had rapped her leg with rap and than they had brought the crutches over and taught her how to use them because she had never used them before. The nurse said that she was gonna have the crutches for a about a week and half.

She didn’t really know what had happened and why just that little pit of motion could have bruised a ligament. But someone her team had heard a parent on the other team say that she had over extended her leg. Well the next day she had gone to school and when she got there everyone had asked what happened. Keke thought it wasn’t bad having an injury because she got to leave early every class about 5 minutes oh, and she didn’t get to do gym or fitness. That week of school was okay but horrible at the same time because she didn’t get to do her sport and so that made her bored.

A few days later Keke went to the Orthopedic and he did some measurements to check her range of motion and in other words to check how much flexibility she had in her leg. He was trying to break the new easy on Keke so that she wouldn’t be scared. But he thought it might be her ACL. At that moment she didn’t know what an ACL is because she forgot what she had learned in the sixth grade. But she had asked the doctor what it was and he explained it to her, its the thing that helps the knee not to straighten to much forward. He thought that maybe it would be a good idea to get a MRI for her knee because he wanted to make sure if it wasn’t bad.

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