Daughters worst softball injury

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Some of you have already heard this--so I apologize--DD was playing a rec ball playoff game (pitching) when the ball got past the catcher. DD came into cover home and she literally dove for the ball from the catcher. At the same time she hit the ground with her left shoulder, the runner slid into it. The scream was horrible. We were able to get her into the dugout, but she was taken on a backboard with a neck collar by ambulance to Childrens Hospital for a possible head injury. As it turned out, it was "only" a broken collar bone.

 

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Only???

 

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We have been lucky to this point.

My 12u player has had some serious bumps and bruises.

My 10u player had some bleeding feet after pitching 8 games in 3 days, with 5 in one day.

Hope our luck continues!

 

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DD #1 - sprained angkle and thumb, and a couple bloody mouths.
DD #2 - The worst! Ball took a bad bounce when she was 8 broke her nose. At 12 warming up at practice she bent down to pick a ball and just as she stood up a girl throw a ball and hit her high on the check bone. I was by third base and she was first, by the time I got to her her eye was the size of a golfball. Took her to the ER , broken nose and broken orbital bone. They said if she would have not been wearing her glasses there would have been damage to the eye.
DD #3 - torn ab and pull groin muscles. The ab tear took a long time to heal.

 

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Only???

I said only because that was exactly what the ER doctor told us after CT Scan and Xrays. Considering that they believed she had a head injury or neck injury I guess the "only" was good news...seems breaking a collar bone is common--VERY painful the first week or so--but common. Watching your child get injured is definitely one of worst experiences of parenting, no matter how serious or traumatic.

 

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DD #1 - sprained angkle and thumb, and a couple bloody mouths.
DD #2 - The worst! Ball took a bad bounce when she was 8 broke her nose. At 12 warming up at practice she bent down to pick a ball and just as she stood up a girl throw a ball and hit her high on the check bone. I was by third base and she was first, by the time I got to her her eye was the size of a golfball. Took her to the ER , broken nose and broken orbital bone. They said if she would have not been wearing her glasses there would have been damage to the eye.
DD #3 - torn ab and pull groin muscles. The ab tear took a long time to heal.

When DD saw orthopedic doctor for collar bone, he actually told us that breaking a bone is an easier "fix" than tearing or pulling a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc. He explained that in time the bone heals and you know it is healed, but when you tear or rip something you just never know exactly when it is completely healed and most likely end up having on going issues with it...hope that doesn't happen for your DD...but I guess it does make sense (unfortunatley)

 

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I can barely bring myself to read this thread. This is a dangerous sport and we should do whatever we can to make it safer.

Our first focus should be to remove physical hazards from our fields. Get rid of the rocks on the infield; eliminate the holes in the outfield, fix the gaps, hole and traps in the fences, eliminate or pad the fence posts that jut into the field of play, bury the black of your home-plates so that spikes slid over the plate, install break away bases, use the safety first base, shut the gates, pad the top of the fences, protect your fans, provide safe places to warm-up pitchers and places to swing a bat.... .

You get the picture. Do some maintenance/improvements on your home fields and make that field safer for all of us; lets try to reduce this type of needless injury.

The worse softball injury? A phenomenal outfielder with D1 potential picked a ball off of the fence, stepped in a old post hole left from installing the new fence. She shattered her leg and what followed was two years of multi-surgeries and rehabilitation. She was never able to recover her previous all-star form. If someone had filled that hole at the fence her career would not have ended and this could have been avoided.

 

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When she was 15, the DD was playing S.S. and went to 2nd to cover a steal attempt and collided with the runner and dislocated her knee, worst damn thing i ever saw.
Also saw her take a cannon shot while she was pitching to the shoulder that looked like she was hit by a shotgun. She was bleeding from the stitch marks...
Freshman year in college she had to have surgery for a belly button hernia (forgot the tech name for it)

 

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DD foot grew so fast that tendon cound not keep up and at practice the tendon broke the growth plate.

 

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This happened in 2004.

It should be noted that the 2004 Summer Season was the last season played in which Facemask on Batters Helmets were not required, all the orgs had legislated in 2003 that facemasks were required for 2004 Season, and we had purchased and installed them on all our helmets, but because the ASA and others did not have time to establish a NOCSAE standard they backed things up to 2005, I have always regretted that I allowed all the girls that wanted to remove the facemasks to do so, including my daughter, needless to say after this accident I required the masks be put back on!

Daughter was batting in an 16u ASA NQ at Riverfront West against Illinois Outlaws Righthander Kam Ferguson (Western Illinois), who was clocked by Angie Jacobs from Miami U at the time at 61 earlier in the weekend, she swung at a Riseball, the ball went off the area where a bottle bat reduces and directly into her right eye, she suffered a severe (70%) fracture of the orbital floor and minor fracture of the lower front of the eye socket, along with (the most visible at the time of the accident) a laceration just below the eys socket on her cheek.

There was no question immediately that she had suffered something severe, the life squad arrived and transported her to Cincinnati Childrens Hosptial, and several days later she went through surgery which placed a teflon plate in the eyesocket to replace the orbital floor, at this point I pretty much had decided she was through with fastpitch, according to the Surgeon she was lucky that the she had not lost the eye. She didn't play for 6 months after that and when she did I always was on pins and needles when she would take a blow to the head. She has some lingering issues with the injury but for the most part recovered full vision, with a small cosmetic holdover.

She ended up coming back and playing having her best years after the accident, and to this day I believe it was because she knew she was playing because SHE wanted to play, and maybe more importantly because her dad had come to terms with the idea that he was simply happy to see her on the field, and that if she was simply playing that was good enough, she didn't have to be the best, she just had to do the best she could do!

I have seen others injured both in the mens FP game and in JO FP, but obviously this was the one that hit home for me.

This is why I have always been a strong proponent for safety in the game.

 

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i am a player and im the first round of my high school tournments out left fielder was running to go catch a foul ball. she was running toward the fence and next thing we know shes laying on the ground. her foot got caught in the fence and she broke her leg. she was strong though never shed a tear. and now this year shes coming bac out for the high school team

 

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th worst injury i have ever seen:
last season my team played in a tournament in beavercreek, oh. i was catching and there was a girl on second base. a fly ball was hit over the center fielder's head. the centerfielder retreived the ball and threw it into our ss. the runner turned third and headed for home so the ss then relayed the ball to me at the plate. the throw was slightly up the line, so in an attempt to catch the ball and tag the runner out, i moved left to get the ball (crossing the line). the runners left shin collided with my right knee. i didnt feel a thing and assumed that the loud sound from the collision was my shin guards clashing together. the runner fell to the ground screaming and crying (i thought, at the time, that she was just blowing it out of proportion). i got the ball and walked it to my pitcher (the ump stopped play). i look back to see her still on the ground. the coaches come out and call her family over and told someone to call an ambulance. the medics got there and were shocked. the runner had broken her leg in three places. one of which was a compound fracture and made it look as if she had a second knee. the loud clashing sound i heard earlier was her leg breaking (it was so loud the whole park heard it.)