Friday, April 1, 2011

His arm isn't as pretty as his brother's

A few months ago Luke dislocated his elbow.  It's looking like Levi won't be quite so lucky.


He fell on the playground yesterday, and came home saying his arm hurt.  He didn't move it all night, and still wasn't moving it in the morning.  He went to his pediatrician this morning, then to get x-rays.  The pediatrician can't diagnose it for sure, so we have to take him to a pediatric orthopedic specialist next week.  But she did say that they could see bleeding in his elbow, and an "isolated fat pad" (whatever that means) leading them to believe it is a "occult fracture"  (didn't know what that meant either without the inter-Google.)  So she is pretty sure that it is broken, and that he will end up in a cast.  We'd bet on her, because she has always nailed what is wrong with our kids.
Poor kid.  He's a tough little dude, and he was saying it hurt, so we figured something was up.  It's going to be a long summer with no swimming and all left handed writing/feeding/wiping/scratching.

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