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How Football Changed My Life
Although I have had many injuries growing up, there is one that particularly changed my life for the better. The injury occurred when I was playing eighth grade football. It was August and we were scrimmaging Westfield; a very good team that had a lot of big players. The coach called me onto the field to play fullback, which means that I was probably going to carry the football. As I was running onto the field my heart started to beat a little faster. I had a bad feeling about getting the ball. I thought that I was going to get hurt because on the play prior the fullback ahead of me injured his knee on a run. Everything went well for the first few plays, but on the fifth play the coach called a fullback run. My heart was racing, at the snap of the ball I ran ahead for about an eight yard gain, but on the way down I felt a horrible pain in my right foot. I ended up going to the hospital a half an hour later, the doctor said that I had multiple fractures (6 to be exact), possibly some torn ligaments, and a dislocation of a few bones. I really did a number on myself. The doctor claimed to me that I would be out for at least 6 weeks, which is over halfway through the regular season. The doctor also highly recommended that I go see a sports injury specialist, or a foot specialist. …show more content…
We decided to stick with the doctor at Mount Sinai because he seemed to be more cautious, and he would take time to examine what exactly I did, and if I would need surgery. It came down to a CAT scan, it would be decided that I did not need surgery, which would have been a metal plate, or two, and a few screws. Although, he gave me a cast (it was red, by choice, and it covered my whole foot and went up to about my knee) which he said it would need to stay on for 6 weeks, then we would go from
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