broken arm

So the previous post I posted about Jerrod and some of the new developments with him. Well one day when Adam was taking Jerrod to the dr for a follow-up our great friends the Babcocks were gracious enough to watch the kids for us. The boys were having tons of fun jumping on the trampoline and the story has it that they were playing tag and poor Drew was the unfortuante boy who when he got tagged fell backwards through the net, that ripped and landed on the ground on his elbow.

Adam got him and took him into the peds office who asked us to bring him in and they would send him off for films. They saw the Dr on call who thought he may have broken both his humerus as well as his ulna or radius. The good news is that he only broke his humerus but the bad news is that he broke is through his elbow joint. The even worse news is that the ped first of all did not even read the report until lunch break the next day, and then mis read it and thought he broke the shaft of the bone rather than the joint. If this was the case he would have been fine waiting a few days to see the dr, but with a joint he needed to be seen right away. So after arguing with the ped, and then calling the ortho on my own, getting them the report, and then the films they wanted to see him immediately. He has a pretty serious break and surgery was a possibility for awhile and would have most likely been a necessity if we had waited like the ped wanted. He wears the cast for another 1-3 weeks and he'll be as good as new.

Because it's a pain to get shirts over the cast we have been letting him sleep without a shirt, now it's fun because all of the boys think it's awesome to sleep shirtless. Another new adventure in a house full of boys.