Tuesday, August 19, 2014

one broken wing

Well, it's official.....there's a fracture :(  We went back to the doctor last week.  I told her I was hoping "it was nothing."  They took another x-ray, and the doctor said, "I'm sorry, it's not nothing, it's definitely something."  Henry has a small fracture on his left lateral condyle, and he'll be in this flashy blue striped cast for the next 4 weeks.  The good news is that the doctor said the new bone healing has lined up beautifully over the first week of immobilization, so he should be good as new in a month.  He was pretty sad at first that we had to cancel swimming lessons and soccer, but otherwise he has not been complaining at all, which I'm super impressed about, considering that his summer pretty much came to an abrupt end (no more beach and bike rides).  He's learned to love bubbles and sidewalk chalk  :)
 Don't you love looking at x-rays, acting like you know what you're looking at, ha?!

 The guy who put his cast on was fabulous!  When he brought in all the color choices, Henry didn't even look through them and picked blue right away.  

Then he made it extra special with the stripes :)  
We're almost 1 week into it and there aren't any areas that are bugging his skin and we've managed to keep it dry, yeah!

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