that one time my 18 month old broke his arm....

thursday the 18th krozby and i went swimming with my friend jessica and her 2 little boys crue and corbin.

we were out playing in the grass during one of the hourly pool checks.

krozby and crue were running around when out of nowhere i see crue running at krozby and tackle him to the ground. football player style ha. 

it was a pretty hard hit and he was obviously crying but i didn't know anything seriously bad had happened. 

but after he got hit he would not settle down or stop crying. 

i decided to take him home and the whole way home he would cry and point at his left arm.

he was not being himself at all and i could tell something was really wrong. 

we got home and i looked at his right arm and compared it to his left and his left was really swollen and he wouldn't straighten it.

i called the doctor and they weren't able to get us in for about an hour so we laid on the couch and watched a movie to pass the time. 

when we got to the doctor he felt his arm and decided to send us to get x-rays right then. 

that was pretty much torture. 

i had to sit him on my lap and twist his poor arm in a bunch of different directions while they took the x-rays. so sad! he was screaming the whole time.

seriously break my heart!!! 

the doctor couldn't get a good read on the x-ray to see if there was an actual break, but he could tell it wasn't dislocated so they decided to put it in a splint and refer us to an orthopedic surgeon to get a second opinion.

he had to keep the splint on until his appointment the following tuesday

he did pretty well with it, except it was wrapped so tight and his poor fingers couldn't even move. when we went in to the orthopedic surgeon on tuesday they took the splint off and his arm had little cut marks from the pattern of the gauze pressing it so tight.

this picture doesn't even show how bad it was :(

they took another x-ray and decided that is was broken. 

luckily it wasn't bad enough to need surgery but the doctor wanted him to be in a cast for 3 or so weeks. 

getting that cast put on was SO traumatic!! 

idk why but he was FREAKING out the entire time. 

right when we got in the car he crashed. 

so that's where we are at now! we go in for follow up x-rays this thursday. crossing our fingers that everything is healing and growing as it should be. 

p.s. breaking your arm in the summer is the worst possible time. 

no getting the cast dirty or wet. 

aka no swimming, no playing in the dirt, and no baths.

with the weather up here getting to almost 100 degrees lately it makes for a very sweaty boy and boy do i miss being able to scrub him down in the bath!!

i'm hoping his cast will be off sooner than later!! 

and that his arm is back to 100%!