A Hundred Phone Calls Willow and I sat for about an hour in the Urgent Care waiting room on the Saturday afternoon she went down, and our dear friend, Mike Smith—my sometimes second (soccer) husband—brought Willow a burger and a chocolate shake. It turns out that it was the most food she’d eat for the […]
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Thursday, April 28, 2011 From the moment my daughter went down on the soccer field, my guts told me what we’d be facing. But there wasn’t any way to truly prepare for the emotions her ACL injury would invoke. It has been just shy of a full lunar cycle since the incident—26 days—only one week
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The first entry in a series, ACL Diary, documenting my daughter’s ACL injury. Spring, 2011. A woman named Peggy Tanous on the Bravo TV Series, Real Housewives of Orange County, pissed me off when she made a blanket statement about Soccer Moms. My message to Peggy: “Don’t talk about what you don’t know.”
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