August 5th:
Blake and Kara decide to join a small group of friends for a little date night including dinner out at Boston's and a free movie (thanks Emily and Eric) afterwards. We had a nice evening with no frantic phone calls as you might suspect from the title of this post. When we got home the boys were all snug in their beds for which we were grateful (Paige was probably still awake because despite her having always been an excellent sleeper she has been giving the babysitters a tough time lately). As I'm driving Jayna home she mentions as an afterthought that Caleb had fallen off of the swing set down at the park and had cried for awhile but she had been able to distract him and he had settled down. To be honest I didn't think anymore of it. Because she said swing set I was thinking that he fell off of one of the swings and was crying so much because he had been really tired that evening. He was after all asleep in his bed at home.
August 6th:
Early the next morning I get up and go out for my morning run before Caleb wakes up. When I get home Blake says that he thinks Caleb might have broken his arm as his wrist is swollen and it hurts him to move it. I then remember what Jayna had mentioned. The boys clarify that he actually fell off of the YELLOW TUBE not the swing.
We finally made it to the urgent care later that day (after a morning of piano lessons and finally finding someone home to watch the other kids--I had to actually call my visiting teacher and ask for help...they always say "if you need something, just call"). Turns out he had broken BOTH his radius and his ulna. He had slept through the night and hadn't once complained all morning. He just wouldn't use the arm that was hurt. Tough kid.
Here he is with his splint and sling which he wore for a week while the swelling in his wrist subsided.
August 12th:
A visit with Dr. Brickner who outfits Caleb with a hard cast. I thought this was so interesting as I had never actually seen a cast be put on someone. He told us he would only need to wear it for 2 weeks as compared to the 6 to 8 weeks we were told at the urgent care.
Caleb modeling his new cast. Do you see a future career?
August 26th:
Back to Dr. Brickner to have the cast removed and more x-rays taken. The x-rays showed that the wrist was healing well but the tenderness Caleb was feeling told us that the bones weren't quite done healing. Dr. Brickner gave him a wrist guard to wear until it no longer hurt to push on the bones. This also meant he could take it off to bathe and we could go swimming at Silverwood. He ended up wearing the wrist guard for about 3 more weeks.
