Grant's August Adventure

Grant has been making Transformers and then making more Transformers and then he takes a break and then he makes more Transformers.

I guess Avery was filling Grant's head with all kinds of whimsical tales of the ER. About 10 days after Avery was in the hospital, Grant fell while playing in his room and through the hysterical tears was holding his elbow and saying, "I broke my arm! I broke my arm!" I thought, "Oh that's cute. He has no idea what he's talking about."

After the usual tactics for calming a crying child (popsicles and cartoons) didn't work, and we saw the big bump forming on the back of his upper arm, we decided something was definitely wrong. We assumed it was a hyperextension or maybe a dislocation, so we asked Dr. Mario (our neighbor) for advice. He took a look and recommended we take him to the hospital. Although he didn't throw any giant colored pills capsules at Grant, we took his advice.

So Dave handled this one and loaded Grant up and went again to Primary's.

He got a sling after being triaged.

and an xray (see that chip in his humerus? The theory is that the lower bone hit it when his arm went straight and took that chunk out.)

There were crayons to help him wait patiently while the doctors debated over what to do about this weird break.

Finally they got splinted and sent home around midnight with orders to return to the Fracture Clinic on Wednesday for something a little more permanent.

Here's the final product. Grant instantly knew that he wanted a green cast.

After lots of lecturing to us about keeping the cast dry, it was less than 24 hours later when he fell into a friends kiddie pool and soaked it. There was a lot of sitting in front of the blow dryer that afternoon.