Charlie's boo-boo!

This is Charlie 3 days later. When you asked about his arm, he would start to cry. I think that is funny. He would be bouncing around the house playing with Andrew. In the space of the question, he would whine and cry, "My arm hurted!"


Oh, you want to know what happened?

Yeah, well, um....mommy did it.



I hear you. How did that happen?

I wanted to teach him a lesson. He has been told not to jump on the bed. Charlie loves Jumping on the furniture. When Andrew was little he would jump on the bed and we would reach out and swipe his feet out from under him. He loved it. He would land on his back and get up laughing, most of the time.

Well, I did the same thing to Charlie while we were at Jill's house. He started jumping on HER bed, and she doesn't like it. So I swiped his feet out from under him.
He twisted and tried to land on his hands. He was moderately successful, except that his left arm got stuck under him awkwardly and he landed weird and started crying immediately, a cry no mom wants to hear. He got pale and sweaty and eyes dilated.

He started pulling at his arm/wrist and was crying. Well 10 minutes of that and I called the doctor.




(And the doctor said...
No more Charlie's jumping on the bed.)

The doctor was able to get us in in 20 minutes, so i hurried and put his coat on him, ouch, and ran him there.

He has a compression fracture of the distal ulna. It is one of the best breaks to have and only requires casting for 3 weeks, no surgery, no pinning.

So, if you are going to break a bone in your child with the least amount of physical damage, you now know how to do it.


He has a pretty new blue cast on now.

Daddy had nothing to do with this and didn't find out until i called hours later to break the news.