Calob and his Supporting Cast

Thanks for the title Sharon! Calob went to the orthopedist (is that the right word) today to get his arm casted. He took more x-rays because he needed a more centered view of the actual break. Calob had a choice in colors for his cast & he chose blue. Shocking. I was hoping for green but whatever. ☺

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Here's Calob getting the cool blue cast.

At this point his doctor was telling him that there was still 1 part left. He said he had to squeeze the cast near the break. This is Calob trying to figure out what he's talking about.
This is Calob realizing EXACTLY what he's talking about. I swear, his doctor is NOT evil (regardless of the look on his face). You really have to know Calob to understand. I had just told Jerrie today how Calob deals with pain. He laughs ... a lot ... and REALLY loud! So here's the doctor squeezing VERY hard around the broken wrist & Calob laughing like you wouldn't believe!!! OMG, you just don't know whether to laugh or cry at that point. You know he's in LOTS of pain BUT he's laughing and you can't decide if you should laugh or not. I think I giggled & took pictures ... yeah, I know, you're happy I had the camera ready! Both the doctor & nurse laughed & commented that they usually didn't get that response at that time in the appointment (squeezing the painful areas).
Here's my big, strong boy with his cool blue cast.
Here are the x-rays from today. The colored arrows are the same colors as the previous post in case you want to compare (you never know). The green arrows are the break and the blue arrow is the fracture.
This x-ray concerned the doctor. Because of this x-ray Calob has to go in again next week for another x-ray to see if the bone still looks like this. If it does (no, please no) he will have to REbreak the bone & set it because it's not healing correctly. Uh huh, you read that right. My baby boy might have to have it broken for the SECOND time ... ugh!

Seriously, I am NOT cut out for this stuff.
As it is, Calob is officially done with soccer for the season. He will be in a cast for AT LEAST 6 weeks (could be more if the above scenario happens). I feel bad for him. He really wanted to play and now he can't do much of anything. Let's just pray (you too Sharon) that the bone is healing correctly next week!!!

*Broken In Two*

Well, Calob's arm wasn't getting any better so I took him to the doctor today. Guess what?!? HE BROKE HIS WRIST! Fun times for sure! HA He actually fractured 1 bone & broke the other one. Pretty awesome, huh? So, when I scanned his x-ray it didn't turn out great but it's the best I could do. If you look at the blue arrow, that's the bone on the outside of his wrist (meaning the pinky side). You really can't see it in this x-ray (there was a different x-ray taken from the top that showed everything better) but there's a fracture of that bone. If you look at the green arrow you can see how the bone is all wonky. Apparently when Calob fell on his wrist the bone actually broke & then crushed into itself. You can see how the sides aren't even and that's because of the bone crushing into the other part of the bone. Lovely huh?

So, Calob can't play soccer for 4 weeks (meaning he'll miss 1/2 his soccer season) and will miss any kind of contact sports in P.E. He's bummed but at this point there's not a whole lot to be done about it.

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His wrist is still too swollen for an actual cast so the doctor did what they call a "half-cast." It keeps the injured area pretty much still but can be removed for showers, etc. He will get a "real" cast on Thursday after school, so hopefully the swelling will have gone down by then. Thanks to everyone who has been thinking of & praying for Calob. We very much appreciate it!!!

All half-casted up & ready to go!