Our first broken bone

We had our first broken bone in our family back on July 29th.  The boys were playing in their room, Raiden was on the top of the bunk bed ladder about to come down and Cohen was in the middle.  I told Cohen to get down so Raiden could climb down.  Cohen missed the bottom step, jumped onto the floor, his feet slipped, he went to catch himself with his right hand, but it also slipped back due to the momentum of his body.  As he crawled over to me crying, I could tell something was not right!  His right elbow was disconnected...gone.  I carried him to the couch and called the doctors office.  I didn't have the van nor a way to get a hold of TJ who was still at work.  Thankfully, a neighbor friend was able to watch Raiden while I used her car to take Cohen to Quick Care.  They were not able to do an x-ray because it was to painful to move.  They had us go over to the ER so they could give him medicine first.  He would have moments of tears, crying and screaming, then calm down before another wave of pain hit him.  It was hard to stay strong for him and not cry myself.

Daddy arrived just as we were getting into a room at the ER.  After some meds through an IV they went down for x-ray.  Sure enough it was broken and disconnected, the Orthopedic Surgeon on-call wanted to do surgery to put it back in place and it may need to be pinned as well.  The operating room was busy, so we were admitted into a room upstairs to wait.

I came home to put Raiden & Molly to bed as we didn't know when he would have the surgery.  Another friend came over really late so I could get back to the hospital.  I was there until Cohen went down to surgery around 11:30 pm then headed back home.  TJ stayed and was up most of the night with Cohen.  He was out of surgery around 2 am.  They did have to pin his arm, but the pins would come out after a few weeks in the office.  He was able to come home by 10 am.  His arm was in a soft splint and we would see the doctor in one week for a hard cast.

We watched a ton of movies the first week and he slept in the living room too so we could prop up his arm.  After 6 weeks in the cast, we are done!  With two rambunctious boys, I'm sure this was just our first of several broken bones.