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Across the Fence:  Rainy Days and Mondays  |
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
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MI
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 Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 5:05:10 PM
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Ok...so it's not raining and it's not Monday.
It's just a cold, snowy Tuesday, wearing the coat of a Monday.
Got a call from my son's elementary school this am that he was hurt. So off I ran. I knew something was really bad for him when I got there because he was crying. This is a child who never cries. Off to the ER to discover a broken wrist. A radial fracture. It's an odd break, so there were questions. It looks like a large fishhook through the center of his radius and there may be an additional fracture into the growth plate at the end of the bone.
Apparently it was in a rowdy game of tag in PE which resulted in a "tag" by a kid who plays football regularly in which my son was "airborne", he says, in an attempt to miss the tag. This resulted in a crash against the wall with a failed tuck and roll. Instead of having his hand out flat palm down, he rolled over the back of his hand, several times. These boys are in 4th grade, so collisions often result in the infamous tuck-and-roll.
It's a left wrist break, which interestingly enough is what my older son (age 16 now) did when he was in kindergarten, with a palms flat landing off some playground equipment two days before summer break.
So we are off to the bone specialist on Friday, where I'm hoping this "odd" break can be dealt with by a cast rather than surgery. And it's canceling swim lessons (only two sessions in) for the next 6-8 weeks to accommodate this cast.
He's a trooper though. Only wanting a little ibuprofin because "the nurse said it would help with the swelling Mom"...
This is not my first broken bone/stitches/head injury/insert boo boo here...I'm a Mom of Boys...but at almost 50, it sure seems to take it out of me more-so than when I was younger! I think I'm the one that NEEDS the ibuprofin tonight. |
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 05:25:02 AM
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Boys will be boys...prayers out to you both. The young ones heal so fast. It is very hard when our children hurt, we are here for you.
Why not go out on a limb, that's where all the fruit is! "Mark Twain"
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 06:11:25 AM
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The poor kid! What was a painful experience. My daughter broke her wrist and it hurt a lot. I know how rough kids can be when they play. Sometimes I think it's a miracle they don't get hurt worse, and nine out of 10 times they just leap up and run off. I do hope he doesn't need surgery, I'll say a little prayer and be thinking of you and your son.
Hugs MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 07:17:15 AM
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I am also a mom of boys (2) both growen and doing very well. I just wanted to share this one incident I had. When Justin was 12 he and about 10 other boys wanted to go camping so they all went over a street into the woods. They set up tents and had a fire but Justin who is hyper just could not settle down and went jumping around in the woods, he fell on a branch and cut his wrist and it bled a lot. Eric a friend walked Justin home and they showed me is wrist, it was so bloody an I got light-headed which I have never done before so I asked Eric to go to the bottom drawer in the small bathroom and bring me the pad inside. He did and I put it on Justins wrist to help clean up the blood and to get it to stop. It worked, I then cleaned it all up and realized it did not need anything else just a good cleaning & cover so I had Eric get me one more pad while I cleaned up the cut and I put the pad over the cut and wrapped it with gauze. Eric said I always wondered what those were used for, my sister keeps them in her drawer. Yep they were santitary pads.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 07:18:35 AM
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I meant to add I hope you little one does well and recovers quickly. Prayers are on the way.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 07:55:04 AM
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Ouch! Sounds like he was pretty brave about it though. I bet he goes back to school wearing his cast with pride!
Audrey
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
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JustAnAllAmericanGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
72 Posts
Jamie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 09:09:43 AM
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I hear you, as a mom to a boy I don't know who is worse for the wear afterwards, the boy or the mom. My heart goes out to you and your son. Here's to a speedy recovery for both of you.
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
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MI
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Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 09:54:36 AM
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LOL Diane!!! Love that story!! Made me laugh out loud! :-)
Which is good for me because the older son (16) was filming a bball game at school last night, stepped off the bleachers wrong and twisted his knee!!! He's at the doc today!!!
Hmmmm...maybe it is raining after all....
Thanks everyone for your warm wishes/thoughts. |
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vintagediva1
True Blue Farmgirl
1251 Posts
Michele
Brighton
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 2:25:19 PM
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Hey Theresa,
Hope your son is recovering and no surgery. I know what you're feelin as my daughter is here recuperating with a broken leg. Thought I would fall off the chair when my son (26) said he was glad he wasn't the accident prone one in the family. Had to stop laughing long enough to remind him of the stitches in the back of his head when he tried skiing down a flight of stairs with 2x4's duct taped to his feet. and the broken wrist, collarbone, wrist again from snowboardin.
He seemed to have conveniently forgotten All of them
Michele
www.2vintagedivas.etsy.com
www.sissyandsisterstitch.etsy.com
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
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MI
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Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 3:54:33 PM
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| Geez Michele...way to make me feel like I have some "quiet" time to look forward too....LOL!! I won't let my boys know about the whole 2x4 thing. Little one did manage to nearly give me a stroke about a year ago after doing some "spy" move where he climbed the walls in our hallway the top of our 10 ft ceiling... then on the "one last time Mom".... fall.... A trip to the ER with him strapped to a papoose board and his head/neck immobilized was enough to scare him too... |
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LynnDinKY
Farmgirl in Training
46 Posts
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 9:04:56 PM
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With all the snow that we have had, my eldest son built ramps with tires for his sled to go across. Guess who came in limpin' and cryin'? Yep, the boy that built the ramp. I really think guys don't think about the danger involved in performing stunts like that.
Hope your son is feeling better soon!
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30 |
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