My boys are now 10 and 12 and I thought we were doing pretty well without them breaking any bones or having any major medical emergencies. That was until 3 weeks ago when Mark came in crying because he had fallen playing football with his brother and friends. Well I should rephrase that apparently he was standing there waiting for someone to throw the ball when he fell over….
Now my son Mark is not really a crier, if he cries for more than 2 minutes he’s really hurt. So when he first came in I gave him ice, a hug and told him to sit on the couch. He continued to cry and I quickly made the decision that he needed an x-ray. So off to the ER we went…
The night it happened.
By the time we got to the ER he had stopped crying, we walked into a full waiting room. I leaned over and whispered in his ear that he should start crying again…is that wrong???!!! Whatever…it worked we were in and out of there in a 1 ½!
It is indeed broken. Now the adventure began of keeping it dry and his hand clean…you know how little boys are! Well 2 weeks after getting the cast on, he “accidentally” put it in the bathtub…
I called and made an appointment for him to get a new cast. He got a lecture from the nurse who walked us back and from the guy who cut off the cast. The doctor was very nice and didn’t make him feel bad. So the guy is cutting off the cast and the doctor is talking to Mark. All of a sudden the guy pulls out the top to a mechanical pencil from inside the cast…he says what’s this???
Mark says “I don’t know how that got in there!!!!” We all just burst out laughing! Apparently he left his arm lying around somewhere and someone else used a pencil to scratch it! The pencil top had also been in his cast for a week…
This would be the first cast; he now has a glow in the dark one. Hopefully he can make it until Wednesday without sticking in the tub or losing something in it! He should be getting it off Wednesday!
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