Cheerleading competitions. They will make you smile, make you cry and make you change from a fairly normalish Mama in the suburbs into some kind of crazy freak screaming your head off for about two minutes and thirty seconds. Cheering is good for the soul!
Once the screaming subsides, if you just take a moment to listen to all that is going on around you, you may just hear something kind of wonderful;
“I just sneezed sparkles right out of my nose!”
“I can not get the glitter out of my eyebrows.”
“Meh, she’s ok, she only got kicked in the face.”
“I. Am. Fine. Mom, the Coach will just tape me up. I can tumble, and I will be FINE”
That last one was my daughter, and it turns out she wasn’t fine. Tape did not keep her from jamming her knees so badly that she couldn’t walk. An old ghost injury from gymnastics, Returned. Unwanted. Unwelcome. When a member of the cheer team gets hurt, a good cheer coach stays calm, leads, and grabs the ice. Mama’s; well we pretend to be brave and pass out the hugs, but the real hero’s on the Cheer team are the girls themselves. My daughter who just kept putting on the brave face, just kept doing her very best to get through. And her teammates. Her sweet sweet teammates. Carrying her bags, holding her hand and when they realized she was far too injured to walk without pain, this was the next thing overheard at a Cheer Comp brought me to my knees.
“Girlfriend, get on, you’re not walking anymore today.”
Sometimes you can only get by with a little bit of help of your friends….
How awful about her knee! Best wishes in her recovery!
What a sweet story! Hope she was ok!
Oh no! I hope she’s ok now!
Aw, that is so sweet. Camaraderie is one of the best aspects of being on a team!
they are so much fun to watch, a great team sport too
Hoping your daughter gets well soon and she has some amazing friends and teammates, cheerleaders are some of the strongest people I’ve seen, they can get hurt very bad through the cheer but keep on going right to the end so not to let their teammates down and they all stick together.
It’s good to have good friends!
I love the team spirit, my daughters in dance and helping each other is the lesson that I hope each child learns.
Hope she recovers quickly from her injury. Sounds like she’s quite resilient!
Boy she’s a trooper, look at that smile!!
Don’t you love the camaraderie between them all? One for all….and all for one. Love this.
I hope her poor knees are feeling better.
She lives! 🙂
Good to see a smile on her face.
Have you recovered your voice?
I hope she will recover soon! She is very brave girl! Her teammate is amazing!
that’s horrible but what pretty cheerleaders !:)
ouch! Hope it heals quick! Great to see such great support from teammates!