Simeon broken arm

Aug 22nd -5th day of school Simeon broke his arm. He was running on the grass with some friends, when someone triped. He kicked Jonathon in the head and fell on his right arm. He felt the bones crack, then when he got up and put weight on the arm-the bones re-set them selves. The school called to say that he had fallen and was stil crying 20 minutes later which is not like him. We took him to the clinic to have it looked at. We were thinking he had broken his wrist since this is where the pain was. He wouldn't let any of the doctors touch his arm. At x-ray the a-rayed his wrist and elbow I asked them to do the forearm, which the doctor then ok'd. The x-rays came back that he had broken both of his bones in his forearm. We were sent to ortho to have it casted. They put a high arm neon green cast. He was so proud of his cast. As we walking down the hall to show Becky we met he in the hallway.

Aug 24th-cast split and wrapped in ace bandage because it was too tight after his arm swelled.

Sept 2nd-labor day Today we thought we had his cast wrapped up nice and water tight and let him put his arm down in the bath tub. That was a BIG mistake! When he got out of the bath it was obvious that the cast was too wet to dry out-he needed a new one. At the ER they took off modified cast #1 and x-rayed. The peds doctor said it looked good and had another fiberglass cast put on and sent us home. Just minutes later my cell phone rang, it was the dtr telling us that ortho didn't like the position of the bones and wanted us to come back in. We went right back, where they took off cast #2, gave him morhpine & verset and reset the bones (at midnight) which had shifted. It was extrememly painful for Simeon, he screamed the enitre 20 minutes, but didn't fight against them. They were taking continous x-rays as they pushed and pulled on his arm to get the bones back in place. This time they put on a plaster cast because it could be molded to his arm better. His cast wasn't round, it was flat on the sides and even had indentions from the doctors knuckles. At 2am, we were back home eating chicken nuggets.

Sept 18th-Simeon has a recheck of his arm. The bones looked good, but not set enough, so they put another plaster cast on. This one they put red and blue striped fiberglass over top of it.

Oct 1st-Short arm cast put on. The bones had set enough to let him have a short arm cast on. His restrictions were lifted and he can now ride his bike and play soccer.

Oct 22nd-the 5th and final cast came OFF.