My daughter completed the fall soccer season and ran three cross country meets with a Salter-Harris fracture in her ankle. She led the undefeated team in goals and placed 7th in the last cross country meet.
She's getting scheduled for surgery as soon as they can get her in. I have the world's toughest 11 year old.
Cross post to quack doctors thread.
The radiologist was a rough ridin' dumbass. He said she had that Salter-Harris fracture and we needed to meet with the sports medicine doctor to talk about surgery. So we drive across town to meet with this dude, he gives her an examination and pulls up her x rays and determines that she has growing pains, essentially the girl version of osgood schlatter. Girls get this in their heels and feet, instead of their knees. He was very nice to not call the radiologist a dumb ass but he said, "I always give exams before I diagnose and I encourage medical students to do the same." He showed us the x ray and said, "this is where the radiologist saw what he thought was a fracture, more experienced doctors would recognize that isn't a break, it's just a potential growth spot."
My kid still led her soccer team in goals and is stacking top 10's in XC without the benefit of practice.
