A few weeks ago at Scott’s soccer game, he decided he needed to be a super star. He was playing some hard core defense since their usual goalie was out. He would do a much better play by play than me, but basically he went to block a goal that was kicked at pretty close range. He went to do a header, but the ball got his eye instead. The good news is, he blocked the goal. And I think he knew that before he went down. He was down on the ground for a while before he ran off the field – trying to look like everything was fine, but not fooling anyone since he couldn’t run in a straight line. His eye lid was pretty purple and he said there was a big black spot in his vision. Don’t worry, that didn’t stop him from going back out and playing after a few minutes.
So, after a few days passed and Scott’s vision didn’t improve, he went to the eye dr. They dilated his pupil and found that everything was okay. You know how when they dilate your pupils, they’re very sensitive to light? Well, that’s what Scott was experiencing. So, he wore his sun glasses for a while when he got home, but when he went back to working on the computer, the screen was just too bright for him. He came out with one of my elastic headbands around his forehead asking me if I could think of anything he could use for a patch. I handed him a black piece of paper as he said, “I’m starting to get a headache from this headband.” I told him I had a looser blue headband in the drawer… but apparently he found one even better than the one I was thinking of. What a masculine pirate, he would be!
