Broken!

Four weeks ago yesterday, Collin and Camden were playing outside on the "teety totter" swing. Camden said,"Look, no hands," and let go of the handle bars. Collin thought he could do the same thing, so he too let go of the handle bars. For him, he wasn't so lucky. He fell back onto the grass. He came in screaming and holding his arm and we could tell he was really hurt. He didn't stop crying for about 20 minutes. He sounded like he was crying that "it hurts so bad that I feel sick to my stomach" type cry. Chris took him to Instacare to get it checked out. Sure enough it was broke. We took him to an orthopaedic surgeon the next day. It was broken in a way they had never seen and gave us the option of surgery then, or waiting a week to see if it would start to heal itself correctly. We chose to wait a week. He had to keep it in a soft cast with a sling. Chris gave him a blessing the night before that he would not have to have surgery. It worked! He did not have to have surgery, just a hard "blue" cast for 3 more weeks! Collin handled it great. The first day and night he was in a little pain and had a hard time getting comfortable to sleep. After that, he acted like nothing was wrong. Luckily it was his left arm, so he was able to feed himself, etc. pretty easily.
Here he is with his soft cast and sling. He was so proud of himself that he could still make his bed with one arm!

Ready to get the blue cast off:

His dirty little cast!

After the cast came off Collin wanted another one put on. His arm is stiff and weak, so he is still holding his arm and not using it much. It will take a couple days/weeks for him to start using the arm like normal!