One of my worst fears came true! I've always been warned about broken bones - it seems that as a mother of boys it is part of the "what to expect". So I guess I have been initiated...
Thursday night I heard: Justin crying and each cry seemed to intensify and Nic say, "Justin r u OK?" Then Nic screamed my name - my senses went on high alert and I ran! I saw my little 5 yr. old laying on the floor his arm was looking really wierd but what grabbed most of my attention was the stream of blood shooting straight out of his arm into the air!
I am not good in emergencies AT ALL, I really fall apart! I did have enough sense to put my thumb over the hole the blood was coming out of. I yelled at Nic to give me the phone get me a towel and a magazine. I called Alex who was on his way home, he had just gotten off the highway. Then I had Nic get my neighbor Heidi. (None of this was done calmly - I was sending Nic in all directions at once - but he held it together! Heidi ran over and said we shouldn't wait for Alex and she ran home got her kids in the car and she drove me towards were he was coming from. Thankgoodness for her and Nic I don't know what I would have done!
We met Alex and headed to Banner Desert Children's Hospital. We left our car right in ER drop off and ran in Peds ER, cut the line and went straight to the desk. They took Justin right in the room and had me stay behind and give them his and his Peds Dr. info - plus they had me clean up all the blood all over my hands.
He fell about 630, we got to the hospital at 7:30, they xrayed and got the ped ortho surgeon, he was in pre-op at 9 and surgery was around 10 and took about 1.5 hrs. He was out of post op and in his room about 130.
Justin broke both bones in his left forearm and 2 pieces of bone punctured through the skin. The Surgeon said blood out, germs in so... they had to open arm and clean it out, set the bones - he had said he would have to do a rod too but after surgery he came out and said that he didn't use one after all - I'm so glad or he would have had to have that removed in 3 months. Due to swelling and the incision having to heal he is in a slint and swing and must stay still! They pumped him full of IV antibiotics, fluids and morphine - my poor little guy!
I stayed at the Hospital with Justin and Alex went home to poor Nic. Who was more upset then I thought... He had also spent 2 hours on the phone between my mom and my sister Kerri and the whole 2 hours he spent cleaning and bleaching the tile to clean up the blood. My poor Nic! When Alex got home Nic was still awake and actually spent the night on the floor in my bedroom so he wouldn't be alone...
Justin was able to leave the hospital on Friday. We follow up with the Peds Ortho Surgeon on Thursday. Hoping his incision is healing well and his bone has stayed still so they can put a hard cast on it.
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So glad everything turned as well as it did. That was so scary!!
Poor Justin. (I'm using what happened to him to threaten my kids every time they try to jump on the furniture though. So far no one wants to end up in the hospital with broken bones.)
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