Catching up! (Broke. Arm)

 So it's been forever since I have updated my blog.  The summer has been busy with lots of vacations, sick kids, and having fun!  One traumatic thing that happened this summer was our sweet little man breaking his arm.  At the ripe age of 25 months he broke his second bone! At 13 months (yes exactly a year prior), he broke his leg.  That break was from falling down the stairs at our home and this time was from falling on the stairs at the park.  We were there for the farmers market on a Saturday morning while clynt was working.  Just so happened (praise God!) that my mom was with us.  He fell and let out a cry telling my mom and I something happened.  He calmed down in about 30 seconds so I strapped him in the stroller and started walking around with him.  He reached up for some cookies I was buying and the scream came again.   Didn't take anymore for my mom and I to realize it was broken.

Thankfully my mom just took Corbin to get house and I took Garrett to an urgent care.  The doctor looked at me like I was crazy because Garrett was acting like nothing at all was bothering him.  But, as they say, mothers know best.  I told him that Garrett landed on his elbow but I thought it was his shoulder that was messed up.  He assumed (even after my guess) that, if anything, it would be an elbow or wrist.  While the X-ray tech was doing the X-ray, I asked her if she could get some of the shoulder in it.  She complied and then when the doctor came in with the results, he says we need to do more X-rays of the shoulder because that's where the break was!  I was pretty irritated that he hasn't just listened to me, but oh well.  So the results were in and it was a break all the way through the humorous at the very top next to the shoulder.  He recommended we head to an ortho surgeon first thing on Monday.  

After many long phone calls with the tx children's office of orthopedics, I get him in for an appt and he says that he just needs a sling bc that bone heals really well.  We tried the sling for a day and he was completely capable of getting out of it and it was causing more issues (like a choking hazard) than it was doing good.  So we went for a second opinion who said to just take the sling off and try to keep him from jumping too much.  He also said it would heal perfect and shouldn't be a problem.  4 weeks later, we went for a check up and I'll be darned if it wasn't healed!  He didn't restrain the arm, even in the slightest.

But the whole deal is over and he was in great spirits the whole time. :). I'm sure that wont be his last broken bone.  Boys will be boys!