Not Again!

Tanner broke his arm back in March.  He broke both the bones in his left arm and had to spend 8 weeks in a full-arm cast.  On April 30, he got to finally have his cast off.  The doctor told me to make sure that he wasn't too active and that he needed to take it easy for a little while.  Yeah right!  You try keeping a 4-year-old still for more than 2 seconds, especially when the weather is nice and all he wants to do is go outside and play!

About 16 days after he got his cast off, Nick took the boys outside to play.  I had just finished cleaning up from dinner when I heard Tanner scream and holler.  I thought to myself, "That sounds like the same cry he made when he broke his arm."  Just as I thought that Nick brought Tanner in the house holding his left arm.  I could see the unnatural bend in his arm immediately.  All I did was put my shoes on, grab the keys, and took off for the emergency room straight away.  As I was walking out the door I asked how it happened and Nick said that he tripped over the garden hose that Nick using to water the garden.   

The x-rays revealed that he managed to break the same arm, in the same place, the exact same position as before.  The orthopaedic surgeon came to the emergency room to set the bones.  That was a little bit comical seeing Tanner in a conscious sedation state.  He was unaware of what was going on, but he was saying so pretty funny things as he was coming out it. 

So we're back to the drawing board.  He's been in a splint and sling for the past two weeks about and I was told that he would get a full-arm cast put on on Friday.  He better, because we leave for our beach vacation soon and he better have a hard cast on it.  We plan to order a special cover for his that will allow him to get in the water without any water getting into his cast.  So at least his vacation, and ours, won't be ruin too terribly!