On Saturday February 13th Bryce went to our local skate park, for skateboarding...it has half-pipes, ramps etc...with a friend!
He sends me a text (yes my son has a cell phone) saying that he is at the skate park...I told him to be careful and be good!
A little while later I hear the garage door open and look up to see Bryce coming in holding his left wrist crying saying, "I broke my wrist"...these words come out of his mouth EVERY TIME he hurts himself!! ;-)
I told him to let me see it...I look at it and can tell that it's swollen so I have him sit down in the chair and we put ice under and on top of it! While he is sitting there I ask him how he is doing and he starts crying..."What's wrong?", I ask "I know you're mad at me!" "What?" "You told me to be careful and I went and broke my wrist!" "Honey, accidents happen and I am not mad at you...at all! Don't cry...We'll get it fixed and it will be fine!" Too cute the way kids think about things!!
He sits in the chair for about a 1/2 hour. We lift up his arm to look at it and he starts crying, "it hurts". We look at the under side of his wrist and it has a bump and it is turning black and blue so off to urgent care I go with Bryce and his pillow and ice packs and a blanket because he's cold!
After sitting in urgent care for 2 hours they x-ray his wrist...sure enough he broke BOTH bones in his wrist! WOW when he does it, he does it good!
This picture you can see the bone on the right is broken...the bone on the left is "mushroomed" at the top...that is a break also. That bone should be more straight at the top!
This x-ray you can REALLY see the break of the bone on the right! And you can see why his wrist was "bumped" out on the under side!
This is another view of the bone under his thumb that is broken!
So on Monday I took him to an Orthopedic surgeon...yep it's definitely broken and both bones! His wrist is slightly bent to one side...We need to straighten it! So off to the hospital we go!! They put Bryce out and straighten his wrist and re-splinted it! We had to wait for him to come out of the Anastasia and then we came home! He was in pain for most of the week but is doing much better now! We go in Monday (the 22nd) to get his cast on. He will have to wear it for at least 4 weeks!
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Ouch!! Sorry to hear about the broken wrist. I hope everything heals quickly and completely.
(I laughed when you said he ALWAYS says his wrist is broken. That's funny. Too bad this time it was true.)
At least he'll have a cool story to tell his friends about how he broke it.
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