Injury

Well, while playing in the game tonight, Cayla hurt her knee. It was the last part of the fourth quarter. The score has been neck and neck. Cayla began driving and drawing fouls. She was on the left side of our basket, two defenders in front of the goal. She planted with her left foot, turned to face the goal with the ball ready to shoot, as she was going to push off she heard a pop and she went straight to the floor with another player falling on top of her. We had fans yelling at the official's, they did call a foul, so I could not hear Cayla crying from the pain to begin with. When it got quite, I could hear her, it was not good! Now, she is not a crier, she didn't even cry when she got shot! Greg Brown told Linda Carol...she just tore her ACL....that girl does not cry! She is hurting! We had to pick her up and take her out! After about 5 minutes she said, I think it is better. A doctor that was there looked at it and said it seemed to be tight to him and seem o:k. Well, it was already beginning to swell. She did try to go back in & play, but did not last 2 minutes. She said it felt like jelly and very unstable, and like it was grinding. When she came back out the pain returned & it swelled up fast. She could not stand to walk or move it. We went to Smith North View to begin with, well they had all their rooms full & the waiting room full. I just went back out & headed to SGMC. Doctor Parrott came in & looked at her and said, man what did you do? She said well, I really don't know, but,it hurts and I have a game tomorrow night, how fast is this gonna heal? He told her he did not think she would play any more this year. Well, the tears poured, but we were still hopeful. They x-rayed...nothing chipped or broken. We got an immobilizer, crutches and pain med. I knew she could not go without some type of pain med. We are to go see an orthopedic doctor asap!