The Cast is Off

Logan was finally able to get his cast off on Wednesday. He was ready! It wasn't dirty as in dirt, but it was dirty as in old skin cells. Eww. Looked like he had a weird tan where the cast was. It was a little sore at first but he was back to fooling around the next day. He still has to take easy for another week (no tumbling classes) but he's good to go otherwise.

The saw tickles.



Forgive the fake smile- he was too busy looking at the movie playing on the dvd player.

New Cast Day!

Logan had an appointment this morning to get his new short cast. I just kept him home from school on advice from his teacher. He would have only been there a short while and he wasn't missing anything. I realized as we were leaving that I had just barely enough gas and no time to stop. Of course. Robert told me to keep it under 60mph (not easy on the interstate!) and we made it there just fine thankfully. Logan was fine today. He went with the nurse easily to get x-rayed. The Dr came in and told him all they had left was hot pink casts and Logan wasn't having that! LOL

I forgot my camera today (I think I forgot my brain too) so all of these are from my phone.

Waiting to go get x-rayed again. Bella wasn't happy.


The sun was really bright! Here he's getting the old cast sawed off. He got to keep it.




Re-wrapping his arm in Gore Tex.


He picked a dark blue color for this cast. His arm is a bit bruised at the top now and the skin is peely but should be good in a week. He'll have this cast on for another 4 weeks.


After the Ortho visit we decided to head over to the zoo. What a gorgeous day! Everyone was starving so we stopped for lunch first at the Garden Grille just inside the zoo. Robert hated his veggie burger. I don't remember him complaining the last time he went so maybe they changed it. Everything else was okay. I wish I had remembered to bring my 20% off coupon though (one more thing I forgot)!

The Cloudy Leopard was actually out!


*Tamani* (the baby) was feeling rather mischevious today. She kept messing with (?) Mama. So cute though!!!


Here's my own baby. She liked sitting in the water.


She didn't like when someone ran past her and splashed her though.


Goofy boy


Happy to get all warmed up.


Brrrr. It wasn't cold at all outside but the water was really cool.


That was the end of our day. It was close to dinner time so we packed up and left after the water fun. Back to school tomorrow!

Visit to the Ortho

I called our ped this morning for a referral to an ortho and the only place they really recommended was out in Tampa so that's where I called. They were able to work us in thankfully. I really liked them. So we left the house just after 10am and we were seen probably close to 12pm. Thankfully there were other kids to keep the boys occupied as well as a big screen tv showing Monsters Inc. and a few toys. My son can't be kept from getting injured though- even in the waiting room. While I was at the front desk he went to sit down, tripped (or miscalculated) and smacked his eye into the arm of the chairs. It's scraped up and swollen. It looks like I've been beating him! They gave us some ice so that helped.

When we were called back they took off Logan's temporary cast and his arm looked pretty normal. They wrapped it in Gore-Procel (aka Gore-Tex) which is the same stuff they use for waterproof fabrics. He is required to get it wet everyday. How nice is that?! Boy has technology changed. Getting it wet will keep it from itching and smelling and it gets all the dead skin out. He also got the normal mesh overlay and he picked red for his color. After they wrapped him they had to set the bone. That hurt. I felt so bad for him. They literally squeezed the arm until it was set in place again. There was no distracting him from that pain unfortunately. They took xrays again after they were done and it looked good so they gave us our instructions and we were out the door. We were starving and my friend Jen told me he needed a treat so we stopped by McD's on the way home for a late lunch. So far he's been fine with the arm. It doesn't hurt him at all he says.

Unfortunately he's not feeling well now. I don't know if the cold that's going around the house finally caught up to him or it was just all the stress of the past 2 days but he actually fell asleep at 7pm and didn't eat dinner (pizza) or a cupcake. I know the boy is sick if he doesn't eat! Dh put him in bed and we'll see how he is in the morning. He just can't catch a break I guess. Keep him in your thoughts!

**Update: He's def. sick. He got up twice to throw up and was running a fever. My poor baby!!

We were all the way down by St Joes but you could see the roller coasters at Busch Gardens from the window.


The Gore-Tex going on.




The painful part.




Stadium view

What a day!

Ian's caught a cold. The same cold that dh also has at the moment. I think dh got the worst of it though. So Ian's been under the weather today. I kind of like it though when he's like this. How horrible is that to say? He's quiet. He likes to lay with you in bed. He even took a nap in my bed at 10am. Bella was napping too so I napped right along with them!

The rest of the day went by pretty normally. Until tonight that is. Logan and I left for tumbling as usual and about halfway thru class he was doing a cartwheel, came down wrong and hurt his wrist. It started swelling immediately. I had no idea what happened. I heard him wailing so I looked up from my book and waited to see what was going on. There have been times he's hurt himself before and he cries but gets over it and goes on. This time was different though. I knew something was wrong when they came to get me. It felt totally odd to walk out into the gym area. They had him laying on the floor and I could see his wrist looked funny. Leighton (coach) went to get some ice and an ace bandage while Torian (his fave coach) was keeping him calm. As long as Logan was distracted he was okay with the pain. We talked about school, movies, friends, etc. anything to keep him from thinking about his arm.

So we left and I was immediately on the phone with dh trying to get phone numbers for our ped's after hours care. They don't do xrays though so we were sent to another After Hours office and we were seen within 15min of walking in. At least I didn't have to spend 3 hours in the ER. They took the xrays and when they were ready we saw the ARNP who showed me the films and clearly it was broken. It's a right distal radius fracture. It's the bone that runs up your arm on the thumb side on his right hand. Which just so happens to be his dominant hand. He got upset when I mentioned he wouldn't be able to write with that hand. Why was he upset? Because he wouldn't be able to do his math. I think he got more upset over the math then when he got upset that he couldn't play his DS! LOL I'm more worried about how he'll do day-to-day things like using the bathroom (wiping, pulling up his pants, snapping, buttoning, etc) when we aren't there to help. So they gave him some Motrin, splinted the arm up to the elbow in a temp cast (which is heavy!), gave him a sling and sent us off with a pain meds RX and orders to call an ortho in the morning.

He was such a trooper! He's usually one of those kids who acts like they are dying over a scrape and here he is with a broken wrist and he smiled for the camera when I was documenting it all. Yes I took photos! This is the first broken bone in the family! ;) When we got home he was showing it off the dh and Ian. It was like nothing had happened. Must have been some good Motrin! I put Bella to bed but had to run out again to get dh some cold meds and get Logan his rx. He didn't care for it even though I had it flavored but he's going to have to suck it up. It's Hydrocodone so it makes him sleepy and he conked out fast. Could be all the excitement tonight too though. He's having to sleep with Ian in the bottom bunk as it's a bit tough to climb up and down the ladder with only one arm. He may be stuck there for the next 6 weeks or so. I'm sure he won't be thrilled to hear that. I guess we could always blow up the air bed if necessary.

Tomorrow I'll be calling his ped for a referral to an ortho first thing. He'll be skipping school for the day. I want to get his arm cast soon. Poor baby. I felt so bad for him. He actually wants to go back to tumbling once the cast is off. Me? I'm not so sure. I have 2 weeks left for this month's tuition so hopefully we'll have that credited. I'm scared he's not getting enough calcium or something! Probably silly right? Ugh. I guess that's what us Moms do best- WORRY! We will have to go back to the gym though next week probably just so I can sign the accident report and his coaches can sign his cast!

In the waiting room. He was watching Bolt.


OWIE!! That just looks painful.




In one of the exam areas. They all had tv's with movies and rocking chairs. He was watching Kung Fu Panda.


I don't think arms are meant to bend that way. It hurts my heart!


You can see the break 3 ways.




Red eyed but still a trooper. He was all cast up and ready to go.