#3
So, shame on us for talking about the fact that there is going to be a third broken bone. As you notice, the color of the cast is different. And, the cast is bigger. Well, let me tell you little story.....
He falls down on Thursday afternoon last week. Adina takes him right over to emergency, he says his arm hurts and points to his wrist. They take an xray of his forearm and, sure enough, a fracture of the radius. They put a cast on and call it a day. That night and the next morning we notice that there is alot of swelling at his elbow along with some bruising. First thing we think is that the cast might be too tight, but blood flow to the fingers is fine and they aren't numb or anything. As Friday continues, the bruising worsens. Adina takes him into the same doctor and she says that it is normal swelling. Adina asks if the xrays included the elbow area, the doc says that the elbow looked fine and that it was in the xray of the forearm. "Ok", we say, the good little patients we are. We take him home all weekend and the swelling is still present on Monday night and the bruising is a little worse. So, I go into work this morning and my first patient just happens to be a nurse from medical who's husband is a doctor down there as well. I am good friends with them both, so I ask her to just check to make sure that the 'xray of the elbow' was actually taken. Of course, no it wasn't. It was just an xray of the forearm and wrist. I ask for another look to be taken, she sets us up for an appointment with her husband, he takes an xray of the elbow and upper arm, and, sure enough, the humerus is fractured too. No wonder he said the cast before was heavy for his arm to hold it up, the poor kid had a heavy cast being supported by another broken bone! He must have fell and locked his arm or something so that it caught all the weight (including his double chin) of his fat little body. So, he has a broken radius and humerus and will be in the new "cool" red cast for 4-6 weeks. Oh well, we caused it by jinxing ourselves I guess.
On another note, we leave for Mt. Fuji to hike it on early Thursday morning. Should be an interesting trip. We will be sure to take alot of pics.
Dave