So life as an athletic trainer is not always fun and games. Don't get me wrong, I love love love my job to much probably. But sometimes, it's extra stressful. I'll explain further in a min.. let's hit the great things first...
Baseball is winning games and doing some alright things they are currently 6-3 after beating Tiffin (a regional foe) this past weekend. Tyler (dispite a 100% crappy arm) had a great outting and kept Tiffin to 3 hits. Our other pitchers were not so great...our staff is struggling right now.. hopefully they figure it out before Friday when Parkside comes to town...
Parkside -- the home of our former assistant coach, Joel Weaver!!! I'm sooooo excited to see coach Weav this weekend. I miss him like crazy!! He is one of those awesome coaches that most ATC's don't get to work with.. and when he left, I was broken hearted.. But it is exciting to see him as the man in charge at his alma mater.. Good for him! But, we will still beat his team -- BAD -- hopefully!
Ok.. back to Tyler's arm.. On Monday we drove a quick lil 6+ hours to Birmingham AL to see Dr. Andrew's on Tuesday. Tyler, whom I have said time and time again is the hardest working athlete I've ever been privilaged to work with. His arm is hurting and it hurt last season also, none of the doctors around here that we have been to had given us any answers as to why, so we were off to see the MAN, or the KING of ELBOWS. - Dr. Andrews!! And he did not disappoint, he gave us answers and insite on why his arm was doing what it was doing. So he's going to continue pitching this season, and hopefully his arm will hold up and allow him to finish this season successfully. He will be in a pretty significant amount of pain, which breaks my heart, but he's super tough and he loves the game. So just say a lil prayer daily for him if you please could.
It's National Athletic Trainer's month.. how awesome is that!! I want all you athletes to take a min to say thanks to your athletic trainers!!! I'm not going to get on my soap box about this, but I honestly believe we have one of the most thankless jobs of all time. I wanna give you just a lil insite to this week in my life and maybe you'll understand just a lil about what I do and why I do it..
Sunday -- woke up at 530 did p90x legs and back and ab ripper, showered was at work by 8 and have had 2 cups of coffee. Got stuff ready to take to the baseball field, did pre-game treatments. BP started at 930 followed by a game starting at noon. Game ended around 4. Post game treatments after. Left work about 530 after making sure all weekend treatments were entered into our injury software. Picked up Lins for some dinner. Got home from dinner around 730. Opened an eval book and tried thinking of all the things I could think of to ask Dr. Andrews. Then the drama began... around 8 on the phone w/ Arch and David, dealing with stupid stuff that did NOT need to be dealt with. Its funny how hard you can work for people and yet at the end of the day, your best is not good enough... so after dealing with the drama -- I was SUPER angry, I called dad -- bless his heart, he had no idea what to say or do to make me happy, but he sure tried (this was one time I bet he sure wished that mom would have been home!) I then went to Jacks to just vent.. and then around 11 I came home and was in better spirits. I looked up a few more questions and finally laid in bed around 130, however I could NOT turn my mind off... so I got about 2 solid hours of sleep..
Monday - woke up at 520, did p90x and went to the rec and did an hr of cardio.. got home around 7, showered and was back to work by 745... did my morning treatments with my athlete's, wrote up treatments for tuesday (cause I was going to be outta town) had a meeting w/David, Arch, and Tyler to prepare for the Dr. Andrews visit. Went to lunch w/ Brendel. Did some afternoon treatments and paperwork, picked up a car for the drive to AL.. left for AL with Tyler and his father John around 245. DROVE and DROVE and DROVE.. stopped for some dinner -- Pizza Hut -- ole Steph thought I drank Dr. Pepper -- which I didn't.. and she couldn't get it figured out.. ate some salad and a piece of pizza and were off again.. Got to the hotel around 930.. did some (LOTS) of thinking and hardly slept at all again...
Tuesday - 6 am wake up.. went for a nice lil jog in the rain/snow in downtown Birmingham, shower at 7, straighten hair and got all ready for the appt. Checked outta the hotel, went to Dr. Andrew's office around 1015. Was there till 330ish.. Got in the car to head home -- STARVING -- found a cracker barrel.. ate some delish b.fast food for dinner -- yummmm! and headed home!! Got home around 1015, did some serious thinking and journaling about what I had learned at Dr. Andrews' office and FINALLY got some amazing sleep from 2a-6!!
Today -- I did NOT workout and was at work by 730.. caught up on paper work, read some txt book info about bone healing (just to refresh) had some good convo w/ David (my boss) and it's almost 7 and I'm waiting for Tyler to finish his workout to be able to go home and bury my head in txt books to figure out why and how modalities work together to do the best treatment possible to get his arm to freakin heal!!
So.. in general -- I do my job, work long days, and continue to keep my head in text books, to be the best I can be... I do this cause I love my job. I love seeing kids be able to do what they love doing. I really do have the greatest job ever... but I do work long long thankless hours all for others and sometimes I just need to vent about it!! lol.. tomorrow I'll do it all over again and love almost every moment of it. God has given me the ability to care way to much for others, sometimes I wander why he has given me that ability!!
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