Pitiful

My baby fractured his arm! I guess we've been letting Noah watch too many Olympics. We think he tried a "one and a half" off the side of his crib and ended up with a fractured forearm right above his wrist! We put him in his crib for an early Sunday afternoon nap. He was upset and didn't want to be in there. We were all in the living room and pretty soon he came walking around the corner! My dad said my jaw hit the ground. Noah has never even tried to get out of his crib before! He had a rugburn on his head so we were more worried about his head. He couldn't tell us his arm hurt and we couldn't tell so he went down for his nap and slept for almost 3 hours. When he got up, he was holding his arm and saying, "owww". Poor baby! He put a little pressure on it to try to stand up and immediately started crying.

That's when we knew we definitely needed to take him to the Urgent Care Center. He had to get x-rays which was traumatic to say the least. He didn't understand why we were holding him down on this metal "bed" with a giant machine shining a light down on him. Then, to make it worse, the tech's computer "ate the images" so we had to do it AGAIN!! It was not a fun experience. My parents are in town and were in the waiting room, they could hear him crying down the hall.

He was in good spirits once we got home. He kept saying "opi, opi" (he wanted us to open the cast), he even tried biting it off! The sling was another annoyance, it slid all over the place. We just kept saying, he looks so pitiful. Brandon and I have never even broken a bone (knock on wood!) so we felt terrible for our baby having to go through this.We had an appointment with an orthopedic doctor on Monday afternoon so he could get a real cast. Apparently the Urgent Care's x-rays weren't sufficient and we had to do the process all over again! Ugh! The orthopedic doctors were very good though. Here's Noah getting his cast:

We chose blue, of course. Here's Noah modeling his new boo cast. He can tolerate it much better than the temporary cast with sling! Pray for quick healing for this busy boy! We have an appointment for the third week in September. Hopefully he'll get the cast off then and he'll be able to go swimming a couple more times before the pools close!