Roll With The Punches....?

Guess what Jared and I did for 3 1/2 hours tonight?

Sat in Doctor's offices.

Why?

So Wednesday night Jared had a City League Basketball game.
Great.
He and his brother play together and they have a game every week. He absolutely loves to play basketball and I love to go watch him.
One critical piece of info though...Jared is EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY competetive. I think this may be shocking to some who don't know him very well because he is so mild mannered. However, once you play a game with/against him, you will understand his competiveness.
He HATES to lose!
Also, when he plays basketball he is super hard on himself. If he turns the ball over or makes a silly foul he has a hard time forgetting about it.
Anyway, back to my story.
So Wednesday night he is playing and they just happened to be playing a super good team that was not missing any shots(which is naturally a frustrating situation). Poor Jared just happened to miss an open lay-up and then just happened to get mad at himself and just happened to punch the little padded wall underneath the basket and just happened to fracture his hand. He insisted it was not broken(so this is my, "I told you so!" moment) and thought he would wake up this morning with a perfectly healed hand.
Well, that didn't happen.

So this is how our night was spent... And this is how Jared's next 6 weeks will be spent.
No basketball.
No Black Ops.
He can hardly write and type so doing his schoolwork will be fun.
Simple tasks like washing his hair and driving a car are no longer simple.
The technical term is a Boxers Fracture, which sounds cooler than it actually is. Apparently it was a pretty severe fracture so he was sent to an Orthopedic Surgeon. He had to get a couple shots to numb his hand and the Doc had to move his bones back into place and then cast it.
Jared is miserable.
He is already sick of his cast and it has only been about 4 hours.
This may be a long 6 weeks...for the both of us.

(P.S. I stole my title from Matt...it was too clever not to use)