I never gave my folks a moment of worry!

[osopardo]

So the boy asks if he could go hang out at his friend's house...
We call him around 3 o'clock to see how he's doing and arrange a time to have him come home. And he says in his Eddie Haskell voice;

"Oh hi! I was just about to call you. I had a little accident. It's really nothing... I'm not bleeding or anything. No no no everything's fine I just think I may have fractured my arm. Could you come get me?"

So off we go; four hours in E.R. (a slow day for them), pizza and ice cream for mama's baby, helping him shower, "Dad! get out! don't loook!!!" pain killer dopeynesss "I weehlly ov ya guys!" and an obssesive interest in the xrays "ya gotta ge' me copy foh ma recods". Now I'm on the couch 'cause he took over my spot on the bed so mom can be near him while he sleeps and I keep having weird dreams. Anyway, he felt good enough last night to insist on using the computer so he could post this on his myspace... Kids!

[HtTKar]

was he breakdancing in a bear suit?

[osopardo]

I'd love to say it was full-contact kickboxing but he was just tossing a football back and forth with a friend, tripped and fell and landed wrong.
"Man, after four years training how to fall! I just knew that was pointless!"

[Bjjexpertise@be]

That's one helluva fracture. How long is it going to take to heal?

[osopardo]

He was in surgery this afternoon. Because he's 16 and still growing they couldn't just put a cast on it so they put a rod in through his elbow into the bones to keep them aligned while they heal. The doctor will see him every week for 6 weeks and then, if everything is ok they'll remove the rod. Until then, he seems in really really good spirits (prolly the painkillers ).

[Thai Bri]

Hey give him our best mate. It's hell to see your own kid in pain.

All the very best.

[osopardo]

Thanks


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[medic06]

How old is the little bear?

[Thai Bri]

He was in surgery this afternoon. Because he's 16 and still growing they couldn't just put a cast on it so they put a rod in through his elbow into the bones to keep them aligned while they heal. The doctor will see him every week for 6 weeks and then, if everything is ok they'll remove the rod. Until then, he seems in really really good spirits (prolly the painkillers ).

Approximately 16 I'd say!

[medic06]

LOL, that's what I get for flipping thru too fast. I was too busy looking at the x-ray.

[osopardo]

And at 5'-11" tall and 210 lbs. not so little! But still mama's baby!

[osopardo]

Oh, something strange and funny I just remembered; the triage nurse at the E.R. asks him; "Do you feel safe at home?" He looks at her and goes "huh?" She repeats the question so he says, "This happened at my friend's house." So she asks him again until finally he says, "Yes, I feel safe at home."
Then we go back to the waiting room and he says to me; "Like if this was your fault I'd say so in front of you, sheesh! "

It made me think, yeah, he's right. I wonder if she asks that question so offhandedly, just because she has to, and does it right in front of the potential abuser every time. I wonder how many times some battered child or spouse answered, "yeah I'm safe at home" when in fact they weren't and couldn't say so...

Hell of a question! One you wouldn't hear when I was a teen. Hell of a world we're living in!

[Bjjexpertise@be]

You got that right. So I'm guessing you're at least twice the size of your son otherwise the nurse wouldn't have asked that. Then again you can't really blame a nurse for wondering if the son of a big brown bear is being abused.

[medic06]

And at 5'-11" tall and 210 lbs. not so little! But still mama's baby!

Still kinda little for a brown bear

[osopardo]

Still kinda little for a brown bear

just give him some time...