Buckle Fracture Anyone?

So a couple of Saturday's ago Grayson decided to try going down our basement stairs by jumping down each one rather than stepping. As a result he took his first big and I mean big fall. Head over heels, tumbled all the way down until daddy was able to grab him right before the last step. His left write was swollen for a few hours and he was holding it through the next day, but all in all, it didn't seem like it was anything to worry about since he was still going about his normal activities. By Monday the swelling was totally gone, no bruising and he was doing his daily flips and jumps off of the couch. Here he is in action Sunday night w/sissy doing his dance routine. Does he look like he's in pain here!

As the week progressed, we noticed that when we would grab his left wrist to help him out of the tub, or out of the van, etc he would freak out. It was obvious that there was still some pain in that area and it was only aggravated when touched a certain way. We monitored it through out trip and he seemed to be fine. Although I did take him in on Monday morning after we returned from Utah just to make sure there wasn't something more going on since children's bones are so soft and can take a bit more than our adult bones can.

Sure enough an ex ray showed a buckle fracture on the inside of his left wrist. It's not actually broke, but just looked like he jammed it really hard. The ex rays showed it looking like an accordion that is trying to stretch back out. Of course they would need to cast it, and didn't have that procedure available at our local office. So they put a temporary cast on until we could get the actual cast the next day.

Here he is getting ready to eat with his one hand. Poor little guy.

Showing us his arm before the new cast gets put on.

He was sooooo good throughout the entire process.

Hey everybody here is my stupid new cast I have to wear for 3 weeks.

On our way home we had to run by WalMart. He wanted to ride in the apple with worm. I thought he deserved a ride.

So while we were at the hospital, Lauren was playing with a friend at her house. She had this pink guitar that Grayson just fell in love with and wouldn't put down for a second. We took it with us for the ride in the van and bless his little heart, this is what he did the entire way there and back with his 4 little exposed fingers.

Lauren taking her turn on the guitar.

Our first bath with the cast on. Daddy put a plastic bag on to keep the water out. Grayson was very proud of daddys handy work. He even holds it up when he's in the bath so he doesn't get the bag wet. Too cute!