Monday May 8

What a great day....and what an adventure we ended with!

The plumbers came this morning to stub in the plumbing for the new bathroom/laundry area.  That got done (& I have pictures!!) by lunchtime.  This afternoon, Larry & my dad layed the re-bar (sp??).  The concrete man will be here in the morning to pour the slab!  WooHoo!

This afternoon while daddy was still here, the kids were riding bikes.  I was in the backyard with dad & Larry, but could hear the kids in the front.  All at once there was a major wail coming from the front yard, so we all went running.  Andrew & Kourtney had a bicycle collision & Andrew landed on the bottom of the pile with both bikes & his sister on top of him.  He landed laying half-way across the curb, too.  Ouch!  He was holding his right arm, talking about how much it hurt so we watched it for a while.  We iced it & waited to see what would happen.  Almost immediately there was a little lump on his wrist, but we couldn't FEEL anything different from one wrist to the other when we compared the two, so we weren't sure if it was a bruised area that swelled some or if there might be something broken or what.  After 30-40 minutes, though, he seemed to go back to normal, although he was sort of protective of that arm the rest of the evening.  At Savannah's dance class (7-7:30pm), he bumped into something & started crying again, holding his arm & telling me "it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!".  At that point, I knew we needed an Xray.  I've heard crazy stories for years about people who had some minor injury that they "lived with" for a week before they finally found out that they had a broken arm/leg/whatever.  So....as soon as Larry got home tonight, I turned over the other kids to him & took Andrew to the ER.

Sure enough......it's broken!  He's got a tiny little hairline fracture to the bone on the inside of his right wrist.  The doc said that you usually can't see hairline fractures all that well until the 2nd or 3rd day, so if he could already see it tonight, he knew the ortho doc would be able to see it that much more a couple days from now when we see him.

He will go ahead & go to school tomorrow in the splint & we'll call to get him in w/ the ortho ASAP.  They'll make the decision on whether to stay with a firm splint or to go ahead & cast it.  Until then, he's going to be a one-armed man because he's extremely right handed like me.  He really NEEDS to use that hand!!  Oy....this will be fun.  <grin>

Goodnight!  I am sooo beyond sleepy.  I got 3 1/2 hours of sleep last night & here it is 12:30.  My alarm will be going off in 6 hours.  Time to hit the sack!