Hospital on Mother's Day Weekend

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan was scheduled to play games at 3 and 4:45pm yesterday.  And of course, until those games are played we don't know Sunday's schedule.  Additionally, Noah had a flag football game at 1pm yesterday and if his team won, he'd play again at 2pm.  With all that uncertainty, we decided to do Mother's Day Brunch Saturday morning, rather than on Mother's Day.

Grandma and Papa joined us and we drove to a restaurant we had never been to called Sawyer and Co.  I was a bit unhappy with the hostess, but other than that it was a nice time and a good brunch.

We drove to Noah's game.  I was hoping to get to watch some of it but the previous game ran late.  By the time the game was starting, Evan and I had to go.

In Evan's first game, he pitched.  He pitched quite well.  He pitched into the 4th inning where he got tired.  In the first inning, Evan hit a ball that was a few feet shy of a home run.  It just kept going and going.  It was a double knocking in a run.  Unfortunately, they lost the game.

The second game went about as well as the first game.  Evan played third base, first base and catcher in the game.  With the score 9-3, time had expired, and Evan was batting with 2 outs.  He had a 2-2 count.  He swung at a curveball that was inside.  As he hit it, it skipped off the top of his bat and ricocheted into his temple, knocking him to the ground.  The coaches from both teams ran to him to check on him.  A father from the other team was a medic and came in as well as a mom from our team who is a nurse.  When he tried to stand up, he seemed a bit woozy.  So they sat him down again.  They suggested I take him to be seen by a doctor.

I called Rachel and we met over at Dell Children's Hospital.  Evan was in good spirits and felt find other than the massive lump on the side of his head.  You could see the stitches from the baseball in his head.  They performed multiple neurological tests over the course of his time there.  It seemed like every 30 minutes or so they were checking to see whether he had any cognitive problems.  They also checked his bones around his eye and felt that there was no break and no need to x-ray.  Evan wasn't complaining about pain.  We finally got out of the hospital close to 11pm.

This morning, Evan wanted to go be with his teammates for their game.  The swelling which had been in his temple, had moved to his eye causing it to be half-shut.  Rachel said he could go and I took him to the game.  He was very glad to see his teammates and they were happy to see him and have him in the dugout.  The coaches were happy to see him as well.  His team was able to win the first game.

Rachel and Noah went over to Grandma and Papa's for lunch. 

Then Rachel and I took Chewie to the Greenbelt where we walked around.  Evan stayed home.  Noah went out with Jude and his family.

For dinner, we went out with Grandma and Papa to a place called TLC Austin where you can get seafood.  Everyone (but me) ate crab and shrimp.  The boys really liked the food.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...