Thursday, August 13, 2009

Lightening Strikes Twice?

August 12th

So Ben strikes again! OMG can you believe it? Yes that is right, so after Breaking his arms..as in plural last year September he breaks his arm camping.
We returned home and unpacked trying the whole time to keep Ben seated with his arm raised....yah right..you try to leash a wild animal.
Needless to say by the end of the day his swelling in his fingers had not gone down, and they were causing him pain. I really had a bad feeling about it so I insisted on bringing him back to the hospital. We called Telehealth, and they advised to bring him to emerge since he had pain in his fingers.
I am soooo glad that I did, although it took about an hour to see a doctor, as soon as he saw him he immediately picked him up in his arms and ran him down to the castings room to have the cast taken off. With Ben screaming his head off they sawed it off and placed it in a temporary splint with a hard cast bottom, and gave him a sling to keep his arm in.
It is to remain like this until Monday when he get to see the Orthopedic surgeon.

I am a little nervous still as I overheard the doctor on the phone with the surgeon indicating that there is still a 25% displacement on the break. He told me when I questioned him that this is acceptable. I pray that he is not lying to me to keep me from worrying.

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