I Bwoke my SHOLL-duh
Anna reminded me that I hadn't told anyone how my baby broke his shoulder. I had revealed this break a couple of posts down in the "I Bwoke My Peenie" post. My son is adrable!

So anywhoo, he was out on the playground with his brothers and daddy. He just learned how to hold onto the sides of a swing so he can swing the big kid swings (makes me hella nervous! I see head trauma stamped on his forhead when he swings) and he decided to jump off the swing and ran straight into his brother's path.

Alex isn't... quick... about things. He didn't try to stop or move his legs, just kicked him - very hard - and Jack flew.

Jack hit the ground with his left shoulder. How he didn't hit his head is a miracle because he hit his shoulder with such force, his clavicle broke. We didn't know it yet.

The hubster held Whacker while he cried for a few minutes, then brought him into me. He said it was unusual for Jack to cry so long. He was right - the kid's a maniacal bull dog! While I was holding him he was saying, "Ouch! Mommy you HOOTing my SHOLL-duh."

That's how he talks *giggle*. Everything with two syllables has emphasis on the first syllable, especially when he has attitude.

Anywhoo again, he was just laying uncomfortably in my arms and I thought at that point I should be like more of an EMT (I was one, you know, as if that makes any difference) and figure out what was going on. I'd already asked about head trauma and there was none, so I sat him at the table and looked him over.

Sure enough, his shoulder was a little off and when he tried to raise his hand to meet mine he cried out in pain. I thought he'd dislocated his shoulder or broken something and with his pain, I was crying my eyes out and running around grabbing things so we could go to the ER.

While there, they said he hadn't broken the bone, but the x-ray showed it was "bowed out". Well how ridiculous is that? You can BOW something unless there is some damage or something holding it in place. It would snap back into position otherwise.

I was thinking, please tell me these ER people are not morons. I looked at the x-rays they sent us home with the next morning on our way to the orthopedic doctor and guess what I could see. A broken clavicle and the "bowing" coming from the break.

*sigh*

It wasn't like a twig snapping. It's just a hairline or something like that. He won't keep his sling on. It's been two weeks and he still can't raise his arm. We go back to the docs soon and he was a pompous jackass. Can't wait.

- posted by Ginxy @ 6/20/2004 05:04:00 AM