The First Injury

Leland was playing catcher at a home game and the ball took a bad bounce and hit him on the pinky side of his right hand.  He continued to catch for 2 more innings before he could convince the coaches to take him out.  Unfortunately there was just enough kids at the game that night to play so he could not completely sit out, but move to the outfield.  While walking to the car at the end of the game Lee showed me his hand and it looked like a club it was so swollen.  It was also turning lovely shades of purple.  We decided to wait it out a couple days with lots of icing.  It was clear that it was not getting better we took him for an x-ray which confirmed he had a metacarpal fracture.  When they casted it they had to manually put the bones back in alignment, OUCH!!!  The cast came off after 4 weeks.