We had a busy day Saturday:

-- Kerrigan played at 8am and 9am

-- I refereed from 10am - 2pm

--We went to Raigan's game at 4pm

-- We had thought that this would be the end of the day, but little did we know.

We had just lost the game that Raigan was playing. We had taken the girls outside to have our postgame talk. A mother came and grabbed our assistant coach Robin, they needed her nursing knowledge. I looked back in and saw a huddle of people at the bottom of the stands, but it was no one that I knew. So I stayed talking basketball with the girls. Someone came back a couple of minutes later and said that she was going to need stitches, and I asked who it was and they replied that it was Kerrigan!

Kerrigan had gone underneath the bleachers playing with some other girls. She was running through the maze of metal and scrapped her leg on a piece of metal. We took her to the hospital and elected that she be sedated because of the process. We did not want to have to hold her down for this process. We are glad that we did this, because we heard several horror stories of this from people at church today. She had to have eight stitches in her thigh muscle. It took a while to come out of the sedation (and was quite humorous), and we arrived home at around midnight.

She was such a big girl during this process, here are some things that came up that I want to share:

• She was crying - not because it hurt, but because she knew she had done wrong. We told her that we were not mad at her.
• Kristi prayed with her in the room before the stitches and she said "oh, I already prayed on the drive over here."
• We told her that she could stay home from church today, but she said that she wanted to go. We thought that it was because she wanted to see her friends, and she said "sometimes my friends are there, but Jesus and God are always there."