Currently sitting in my car waiting for Ethan’s 4:15 tennis match to start:
I ducked out of work early to get here. Tennis matches are tough! They always start at 4:15 and seems so many are “away” (and FAR away).
This one is a “home” match but the courts are still almost 30 minutes away from my home.
Asher missed like his 3rd day of school in the last week to play a golf match. I am SO CONFUSED by this sport. Why are all the matches during the school day?!? This is his first season playing.
I am really not a fan of this aspect at all, especially considering that we recently pulled him from an entire week of school for spring break! But he says “it’s fine”. 🙄 Of course he does.
(Does anyone else have a high school golfer? Is this just a thing? I mean I get that it takes a long time to play a full round of golf. But couldn’t they do like, an abbreviated course for high school or something, after school? I suppose that would be very uncool for real golfers. 😅 Shouldn’t actual SCHOOL be the priority during high SCHOOL golf season, though??)
In other news, I had some excitement at the gym this morning.
As I was wrapping up my workout, doing some cable face pulls at the cable machine, I suddenly heard a woman behind me say, “ma’am!” I turned around and she was all twisted over with her shoulder hunched up oddly. She said, I don’t mean to freak you out, but I just dislocated my shoulder! Can you go get someone?!
I said of course and ran just around the corner to tell the guy at the desk to call for help. In the 15 seconds I was gone, apparently she managed to unstick her shoulder.
She was extremely shaken and in tears. It was crazy! I’d never seen that happen before. I made sure she was okay and then the gym facility supervisor showed up so I stepped away.
As I was leaving, she waved and thanked me for my help and apologized if she “freaked me out”. I was like, oh I’m a nurse, it didn’t freak me out at all! 🙂 Happy to help!
(But “transplant nurse” does not equal “comfortable popping someone’s dislocated shoulder back into place”!! 😆)
Anyway, that was my excitement for the morning. I’m glad she was okay.
Okay, off to watch some tennis. Wish it weren’t only like 54 degrees out today. 
Daily Gratitude:
I am grateful for that lady being okay and not seriously injured. She seemed sweet. I didn’t catch what exercise or what she was doing when it happened!
GRATEFUL KAE 
Well, no high school golfers in my house. But I can tell you the “I’m missing school but it’s fine” attitude is strong around here! So this is the high school golf team? Does he get excused from his classes for this? It does seem odd, but I guess the kids know what they’re doing???
That’s a wild story at the gym. So her shoulder popped back into place and she was fine? Yikes.
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Phil chose baseball over golf when he was in HS even though he was good at both. He probably would have loved missing school for golf, though. Lol. It is odd to miss that much school in such a short period of time! But I suppose they need to leave fairly early to get 18 holes in before it gets dark, and golf season is so short in the upper Midwest. My school had so few sports options and none of them required you to miss school since they were all after school!
That is crazy about the dislocated shoulder! It’s good to be a steady person who isn’t easily bothered by things and can jump into help when they encounter an issue! All your years of nursing prepared you to handle those situations well. I credit my mom for raising me to be really sturdy, too. I feel like her experience as nurse impacted us as she normalized a lot of things others were grossed out by, like blood for example. There isn’t much that grosses me out, which is helpful as a parent. Phil is grossed out by way more things so he wouldn’t use the snot sucker Nose Frida thing or take rectal temps, for example.
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I was a high school golfer, and yes, you miss a lot of school to play golf! I played some 9 hole tournaments, but most are 18 holes and it takes quite a bit of time to play 18 holes, especially if there are a lot of kids playing. You have to consider the course availability to host all these golfers too – the tournaments will be scheduled when the courses have time, that will never be on weekends or times that people will be paying to play. I’m surprised his season is in the Spring! As female golfer in Colorado, our season was in the spring and the boys played in the fall. We always had sooo many tournaments cancelled in the spring due to the weather – he could be playing so many right now because they had counted on a few of those not being played. The season is pretty short, too, so have to fit in as many tournaments in as possible in a pretty short window. I hope he has fun! High school golf is really great, and missing so much school was a big part of that, haha.
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Yes, I’m not sure about the seasons- here girls play in the fall and have swim in the fall too, and boys have soccer and football. The boys have golf in the spring and then the girls have soccer in the spring. They have had a couple matches cancelled so far but not TOO bad so far.
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