The Ever Evolving Smith

Sorry everyone, I have got to call out a group and I hate to do it but it’s time —> “some” Medical Professionals. I really do love you all, and there are so many things we couldn’t survive as a community without you, but there is this one thing I see pop up. It’s apathy for the non-exciting sports injuries.   Two weeks ago yesterday, our youngest who is a freshman, was playing his beloved football game at school. Towards the very end of the game during the 4th quarter, our son made a great tackle, but he also took a knee to the center of his chest. You know, of course it was just right where the shoulder pads didn’t cover: in the center. He shook it off until the end of the game (this kid will play through most anything!) We iced him down and watched him overnight and by the next day the very bottom area of his sternum was incredibly swollen; it looked like a tennis ball was under his skin! However, Saturday that was all but gone but still the center of his sternum hurt. We iced...

Wow! I realized today it's been 8+ months since I wrote, and that blog post was four days before my world as I knew it changed and I would lose one of the most important people in my life. This year has been monumental for us all for sure, but for me personally, a little more I feel. You see my best friend, outside of my husband, my Mom, passed away in March. It was just a few days after my last blog post. My sister and I feel that God took her home just before the crazy world of 2020 exploded in to what we are all living now. We had just lost my second-dad, my step dad, about a year and a half prior to losing my mom, and she was never really quite the same without her soul mate.  "This Covid Thing," as we called it, would have scared her more than it already did. She would be disappointed that people have made it what it is, and that even as small as a sickness could divide a country of how it should be dealt with over this year. She would want us to wash our hands, ofte...