Okay. So in my defense, this is the first of my three children to EVER be in a cast! 7 yrs and only one cast. I would say that's pretty good....Here's the story:
So Max was playing with Van while I was packing to go to San Francisco for the weekend. Max went down the stairs and Van apparently followed him. All I heard was a tumble and then SILENCE. You know your kid is hurt when it takes them a while to cry...So I scoop him up and try comforting him and he seems to calm down after a minute or two. The poor kid was coming down with a cold also and was kinda fussy already. I really didn't think much of it, and I was in such a rush to get out of the house to drop him off at a friends that I didn't think that he really could have hurt himself falling down the stairs!
Fast forward through the weekend and when I see him on Monday I notice he is not crawling...Hmmm...that's weird. Tuesday rolls around. No crawling. Finally on Wednesday I called my pediatrician and they saw him that day. The doc thought it was his elbow and so sent me off to Radiology to get some x-rays taken of his shoulder and elbow. No fracture they tell me. So I go home and Van still is not crawling...Fast forward to Monday (which is the soonest apt I could get to see the Pediatric Ortho), they x-ray his arm and wrist and in about 30 sec were able to tell thathis arm was BROKEN! So they took him back and put a full arm cast on him that he gets to have and not get wet for the next 2 weeks!
I think I should be in the running for Best Mother of the Year award. It only took me 10 days to realize that my baby's arm was broken! Awesome.
3 comments:
Poor guy! That is so sad! I hope he feels better soon.
OH NO!!!! Poor baby boy, that's awful!!! If only babies could talk so they could tell you what was wrong. Poor guy, give him hugs for us! (Oh yeah...and it's called a baby gate...ha ha! Wait..I have one you can use if you want, we don't have stairs at the new place). XO
Poor little Van! But, Kell, you are a wonderful mom and these things are just bound to happen. I am actually going to go and get a baby gate tomorrow. Today I had the stairs blocked off with a couple of chairs and a laundry basket . . . it's time!
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