The long anticipated event has finally occurred; Crew broke something. I always say if you are going to do something you should do it well and Crew followed that advice. He broke both bones in his arm about an inch above his wrist and they were offset about an inch. What finally did him in? He was playing tag at recess. While on the slide he decided it would be better to jump off than be tagged and so he did. He wasn't tagged but he broke his arm. I got the call from the school nurse while Gracie was in dance class. The nurse said, "I am not a Dr. so I can't say but your son broke his arm and you need to come pick him up." When I got to the school Crew was amazingly pale and in a lot of pain. I was not prepared to see his arm looking so freaky. I was sure it was broken too. His wrist was off center and hanging down really weird and massively swollen. It really grossed me out.
Here is what his arm looked like when he tried to lay it flat on the exam table. There is something definitely wrong!
Here is one of the x-rays. That bottom bone had to be yanked back in place to meet up with the wrist and you can't really see from this picture how off center the top bone is. I was sure glad that Aaron was there for the resetting process since I couldn't even look at his wrist without feeling sick. Aaron is the emergency room parent. I don't know when I became so queazy, but I sure don't handle medical issues very well. Friday he will get his cast and hopefully things will only get better after that! Gigi took him to Target today to get him something to do with only one hand. He of course got a Lego set and is doing amazingly well putting it together with one hand. We also had to pick up some elastic waistband shorts. He can't button his pants with one hand and it's not cool when you're 7 to have your mom help you when you go to the bathroom.
9 comments:
poor baby. broken bones are totally traumatic.
that first picture makes me wince.
OUCH!! I definitely would not have done very well in your situation. I think Justin will be our ER parent for sure.
Oh my gosh, I got queazy just looking at the pictures. Poor kid. At least he took your advice!
Yikes, poor thing! Hope that it does just get better from here like you said. Looks like it must have really hurt. but what a good sport to try and do legos one-handed. I don't think I am going to be a good ER parent either, and unfortunately Mike is even more squeamish than me. What are we going to do? Glad Arron was there to help.
That's freaky! I am only waiting my turn for one of my boys to break something.
Austin and Luke have both had stitches but fortunatelly no broken bones. I too am just waiting for that day. Man, that looks like it was sore!!!
Boys will be boys!! That is so sad but good thing he did not get tagged : )
I hope girls don't do stuff like that
Poor Crew! Yeah, those pics definitely made me feel a little sick. Aren't you glad we have husbands to deal with this stuff?!
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