Another broken arm

Well, we have had some excitement in the last 24 hours. Last night around 6:30 Mason was playing tag at the park with some friends. The park is literally right out our back door. We can see the kids from inside the house. Anyway, he came in crying saying he had fallen while jumping from the slide. I guess when he jumped another kid ran underneath and Mason's feet hit the kids shoulder. This caused him to land on his arm instead of his feet. At first he said his arm felt numb. It looked normal and there wasn't any swelling that I could see. So, we iced it for about an hour but it was still hurting pretty bad. We decided all 4 of us would take a trip to the ER. The short version of this story is that we were there from 8:00pm-5:30am, made 4 trips to x-ray, had a morphin drip through an iv, and spent a lot of time waiting! Dr. Chen, the ortho Dr., decided to put a splint on it. His left humerus is fractured at the top, near the shoulder. We go back for x-rays and a follow-up on Monday afternoon. Dr. Chen believes that it will heal well because he is young. He wants to keep a close watch however because there is a small chance that the growth plate will be affected. We pray that is not the case.
Mason was an excellent patient. He cried getting the iv but otherwise was amazingly patient with all the waiting, especially considering how much pain he was having in the ER waiting room. (I'll blog about the ER waiting room a different day. What an interesting place!)
Mackenzie was also a trooper. She waited with the utmost patience and was very sympathetic and kind to her brother. She got to lay down in an empty hospital bed around 12:30 and people kept commenting on how heavy she was sleeping. She slept for about 3 hours.
Mason is doing great today. The kids and dad got caught up on a fair amount of sleep today. I went into work around 10am. We are having a really great guest speaker for our teacher training and I have a lot to do in my classroom before Wednesday.
One more prayer request. I hate waiting rooms because it seems we always get sick after being there. Please pray that none of us get sick. This weekend and next week are really busy and honestly I don't think I can afford to be home. I have way too much to get done!
Enjoy the pictures!

"The slide"

He's supposed to wear the sling, but we were instructed not to make it too tight or raise his arm up. The Dr. wants it down so that gravity can do its thing on that bone.
I have no idea how we are going to get his school uniform polo shirt over that! Bob is very opposed to cutting his brand new uniform shirts!
It's not all fun and games!