Dylan waiting on the sidelines to go in...Number 31
So after Dylan's game was over it was Zach's teams turn to play. Zach is in 5th grade and on the 5th/6th grade Sayre Junior Redskins team. He is a good player and usually gets a lot of play time. Zach was returning a kick off and running the ball up the field when a kid from the Towanda team completely crushed him. He knocked Zach to the ground and then landed right on top of him. Needless to say, this kid was 5 foot 10 inches and weighed 265 pounds!!! Little Zach only weighs about 65 pounds! Zach was slow getting up but he got up and walked off the field on his own. We thought he was ok, until his coach came over to get Derek to come see Zach. Derek ran over to him and found him hysterically crying and complaining that his stomach hurt. He complained mostly of the pain on the left side of his body. The EMT's had left for the evening, no idea why, so the trainers and a few nurses that were in the crowd were trying to help him out. After he settled down a little, he insisted that he wanted to go back in the game. The trainer had him run up and down the field and Derek was tossing him the ball to make sure he wasnt favoring anything. They were about to let him back in the game when Derek finally decided it wasnt worth it and headed to the ER to make sure everything was ok. To make a long story short, they did blood work and a CT scan and found that he had a level two laceration on his liver. We had no idea how serious this was until they told us he had to be transferred either by air or ambulance to a Geisinger Children's Hospital where there is a pediatric trauma unit. Derek rode with Zach in the ambulance and got there around 4 in the morning.
Zach fast asleep in the hospital
They kept him on complete bed rest there for almost 3 days when he was finally able to come home. He was out of school for an entire week and not able to do any physical activity for 6 weeks...the worst part..no sports for 6 months. By the time Zach got home from the hospital he was not in much pain and able to move around perfectly...so trying to explain to a 10 year old active boy that he could ONLY walk was impossible. He wanted to bounce off the walls, run around, shoot hoops, throw the football, and wrestle his brothers. I wish we had a bubble to put him in! He is not happy about being done with football but its better than ending up back in the hospital because his liver laceration was bleeding again. Scary stuff...
His team has been great at welcoming him to help out even though he can't play..
Zach's coaches made him a co-capt...walking out to do the coin toss
Zach is number 5
Heading back from the coin toss...He loves that he is still part of the team!
They have even made Zach an assistant offensive coordinator. He seemed so depressed during his stay at the hospital and then at home when he knew he couldnt play football...so this has really helped him!
Colton has been playing soccer too!! Although, he really really really wishes he could play football. Unfortunately, due to his heart and chest he can not take the chance of being hurt and damaging anything. He'll have to be our soccer star! He has been doing great this year! He isn't afraid to go after the ball at all. I think he finally found his nitch as the goalie!! Of course, now he insists he needs a pair of goalie gloves too haha. He does really well as goalie and doesnt hesitate to scoop up the ball, even with lots of little cleats coming at him. Hopefully he continues to do well and like the sport since he won't have many options as he gets older and sports get more physical and rough.
Colton playing goalie and waiting for the ball to come his way
Scooping up the ball
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