our first broken bone

Corey's never had a broken bone. I have never had a broken bone. Our one year old son now has his first broken bone. So sad.

Last Saturday we spent a beautiful day outside at the pumpkin patch. We had had a nice time and were getting ready to leave so we could go home and have lunch. On the way out, Corey decided to go down the slide with Lawrence one more time since he had enjoyed it and we might as well get our money's worth, right? On the way down, Lawrence's little foot got caught on the slide and went up underneath both of them. He cried but Corey scooped him up and he was fine. When he got up from his nap we realized that he still wasn't able to walk on it. After a call to the doctor we headed to the emergency room. After xrays they determined that there were no fractures and we headed home.

Fast forward to Tuesday morning and our little man still couldn't walk on his leg or put any pressure on it. Which is really hard to watch, by the way. So we went in to our doctor who suggested more xrays. The hospital had taken pictures of his entire leg and we were confident that the problem was below his knees. So they were able to get better pictures that time. Our pediatrician didn't see any fractures so we headed home with instructions that if he wasn't walking by the following Monday then we needed to come back. As we were pulling in the garage, he calls back with news that the radiologist looked at the xrays also and saw something that he didn't. A very small hairline fracture.

We headed to the office for a cast. It was a pretty quick process and Lawrence handled it all very well. It kinda broke my heart as they bandaged him up for the next 3 weeks. But now he can crawl around and just drags his blue cast along. He has been such a tough little guy and hasn't let the cast bother him much. He has started to pull up to standing now and take a few steps with our hands. It's like he's learning to walk all over again since he is lop-sided. I really think in the next few days he will be walking on it. Which will be so wonderful for me and my back especially. The hardest part for him is falling asleep. It is taking him much longer to get comfortable and fall asleep. Understandable. He complains much less about it then I probably would.

Moral of the story: slides are apparently very dangerous and many fractures occur on them. Heed the warning!