ars in his eyes and was holding his arm to keep it from moving. After a flurry of phone calls I pawned Nikki off on Jackie (my neighbor) and took Ben to ER. As an aside... I think all peds ERs should have valet parking like U of M did. When your kid is in pain it is hard to focus on parking in a parking deck!!They gave him a double dose of motrin and then they ran some xrays. Then some more xrays. Ben couldn't straiten or turn his arm but there was no fracture. One of my neighbors (who is a peds ER surgeon) sent his xrays to a friend who is an orthopedist.
In the meantime the peds dr thought it might be a dislocation and WRENTCHED on his arm. He was screaming and crying in pain. It was AWFUL. Beyond awful. I wanted to pull that woman off of him and throw her into a wall. It was all I could do to not start sobbing or punch her. Eventually she decided it was not a dislocation and needed a soft cast and stepped out of the room. The nurse brought him tylenol with codine afterwards because he was shaking and crying.
Our neighbor, in the meantime, had heard back from the orthopedist who said it was a fracture inside the bone right in the elbow. It is common to see with these kinds of falls but doesn't show up on xrays. They put his arm in a soft cast and sent him home. We got home at 7 exhausted. Totally exhausted.
We have to see an orthopedist in a week who will determine whether to put a hard cast on or if he is healing well enough to just leave the soft cast.
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Poor Ben! It must have been very hard not to punch the doctor in the face that was wrenching on Ben's arm! What an ordeal for both of you. Hope you had a relaxing glass of wine once the boys were asleep. Hopefully today finds Ben not in pain now that the arm has had time to settle from the wrenching.
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