On Tuesday night Andy tripped over a toy on his way to my bed. He kept holding his arm and crying. He would not put any weight on it. I wasn't seeing evidence of major injury so I figured he bruised something. A couple hours later no improvement, and he could not pull himself up on to my bed when normally he could do it no problem. At this point I called my emergancy babysitter and we were off to the ER. It was just before 1 am Wed. morning. I honestly thought they would not find anything major and we would be sent home with instructions to keep an eye on it. The xrays...let's just say this was not a fun process. It was obviously painful for him. Being held down was not helping matters. The doctor saw swelling in his elbow so they took pictures of that. No break was seen so they brought him back for pictures of his wrist and forearm. After this he was quite angry with everyone. Doctor came back and told me that they did not see a fracture in the xrays but with the swelling and fluid in the elbow joint provided evidence that a break was there but could not be seen. Doctor said they would be coming back with a sling he had to keep his arm in. I was worried how I was going to keep him in that! Then 2 nurses came in with bandages, ect and told me they were putting a cast on him. I wasn't expecting that. They acutally put a molded splint on him. They used bandages around a splint that got really hard, no plaster was used. It looked enough like a cast to pass as one. Then his arm was put into a sling. It was hard to find one that would adjust to fit him. We were sent home with instructions to see an orthapedic surgeon, keep the arm in the sling during all awake times and to not get it wet. We got home a little after 3:30 am. Of course this was my birthday. Happy Birthday mom! I got a broken arm! At least I will remember this one (for this and many nice reasons too :-) )!
Here is the molded splint.
He is not too happy about this sling. Don't blame him. It was a real pain to adjust so it would do it's job.
He went to the ortopedic doctor this morning. More xrays were taken and this time it was seen that there is a chip in the forearm bone by the elbow. He was put into a regular cast and we lost the sling thank God! He will wear his cool new blue cast for 3 weeks. Then he will go back for more xrays and hopefully be done with this. He his handling all of this so well. He did fuss when xrays were taken and when they put the cast on this time. He has been in a great mood today. He's not letting this stop him. I have pictures of him waiting for the school bus yesterday (he got sent home until he has a release from the dr., didn't go as well as I thought it would) and many pictures of his new cast. Unfortunately the transfer cable for my digital camera got fried with my computer during that power spike yesterday so I won't be able to post those until the new cable is shipped to me sometime next week. At least there were no people hurt in that incident so I am not complaining about that (even though it blew out the mouse and keyboard too, the power of electricity!). It is going to be 2-3 weeks before I have my PC so the laptop it is. It works. So the short version of this, more pics to come :-)
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