It's Hard to Pin Down Crew

We went in to get Crew's cast on Tuesday but his bones had shifted and rotated. Dr. Yu, the orthopedic surgeon, was very surprised with this outcome. I guess I didn't keep Crew mellow enough, also apparently with the severity of Crew's break and the amount of swelling he had, it is common to have shifting. That is part of the reason we had to wait so long to get a cast. The rotation however is just a fluke. So once again we left the office with NO CAST! Instead we had an appointment for surgery. Dr. Yu made an incision on the inside of his wrist and moved the bones and put in some pins to hold the big bone in place (you would think by now I could remember which bone was the Radius and which was the Ulna, but I can't) . The little bone seemed to be stable enough that they didn't have to pin it at all. After the surgery he finally got a cast. They just put a cast right over the pins. He has been in some pain but doing pretty good. We have a follow up appointment May 19th where Dr. Yu will cut off this cast and look at the pins and then re-cast. I am hoping that the pins will come out then but that will only happen if Crew is a very fast healer so I guess we will see. I had no idea that a broken arm could be such a hassle