...And It Happened

I'm actually surprised that it took this long.  I thought it would've happened by now.  Jaxton broke his arm.  Poor little guy was trying to jump off of Mitch's utility trailor and his foot got stuck. Down he went and tried to catch himself with his hands, I'm sure so that he wouldn't take the concrete with his face, and the pressure just destroyed his poor little forearm.  The bone wasn't sticking out of his skin, but it was visibly broken... kind of like jelly, just drooping weirdly.  I happened to have been babysitting my neighbors kids at the time because she had just had surgery that day.  Luckily, one of my other neighbors happened to have been outside with her husband doing yardwork and they both heard him scream and saw him on the ground.  They immediately came rushing over, grabbed all of the kids and said they would take care of them and feed them dinner.  Gosh, I love my neighborhood.  We are so blessed!  Also, it just happened to have been Mitch's day off of work, so Mitch was able to drive while I sat in the back with Jaxton.  Once at the hospital, they gave Jaxton some morphine and took some xrays.  It turns out that he broke both bones in his forearm and one of the bones was bent so bad that they had to straighten it out.  Hence the reason his arm just sagged really weird.  The bent bone also caused his fingers to go numb and he eventually lost all feeling and movement in them.  He was so scared about it... poor little guy!  We tried to reassure him that the doctor would fix it and it will be better.  They put him in this really weird, loopy sleep while they straightened the bone and when he woke up, he was able to move his fingers again.  He was so relieved!  This happened on a Tuesday evening and he was supposed to start school on Thursday.  That didn't happen though, and he was so disappointed... not to mention the fact that he came to the realization that he couldn't ride his bike or his scooter or do all things crazy that a 7 year old boy likes to do.  He had a bad day!  They weren't able to cast him until the following Monday, so he started school that following Tuesday.  I have a feeling that it's going to be a long 5 weeks with this cast!

And the morphine is setting in at this point

He's enjoying watching the medicine come through the tube while he waits for it to kick in and put him to sleep.

 

 

Jaxton slept with me, and Mitch graciously took the guest room for about a week while Jaxton had no cast.  Poor little guy had such a hard time sleeping.