I am starting to wonder if my fearless, independent, stubborn little two-year-old isn't accident prone. In less than a year we've had: a majorly burned hand that required a trip to the burn unit, a trip to the emergency room with a quarter lodged in his esophagus, and a broken leg. Yes, a broken leg.
It's times like these that I feel like Mother of the Year.
Since I've explained the first two little episodes, here is an explanation of the third event.
A little over a week ago, we went to our park and went down the swirly slide. Cal's shoe caught on the slide and his body turned but his leg didn't. I thought he'd twisted his ankle, (and didn't think it was even possible to break a bone that way) so I brought him home, wrapped his foot and put an ice pack on it. He went to bed about 20 minutes later, but the next day he was still in pain. I thought that was normal for a sprain so I didn't think too much of it. I gave it another day to heal and then realized that it just didn't seem like it was getting any better.
With his cousins around Callum surely would've run and played like normal if his ankle was feeling better, so when I saw him hobbling around with them I knew something was wrong. Finally I took him to the doctor and they gave him an X-ray that sure enough showed a fracture in his shin bone. The doctor reassured me that this is extremely common for kids his age and this type of fracture is even nicknamed the "toddler fracture" because so many toddlers break this bone. He also explained that it was good I waited because they wouldn't have casted it any earlier (to ensure any possible swelling had gone down). I am just trying to accept the fact that this might just be how it is with my little Zuzu for the next ten or fifteen years!
Callum got to choose the color of his cast (he had the options of white, red, blue, and purple). Decisively, he chose red right away and didn't even consider the other colors. The nurse brought over some glitter in a bin and there was blue, silver, and gold. Callum chose the gold, held it to his chest and said "Callum's". So a red and gold cast it was. It fits in well with his pirate fascination (and I think he secretly wanted to support his Niners. tee hee).
It's times like these that I feel like Mother of the Year.
Since I've explained the first two little episodes, here is an explanation of the third event.
A little over a week ago, we went to our park and went down the swirly slide. Cal's shoe caught on the slide and his body turned but his leg didn't. I thought he'd twisted his ankle, (and didn't think it was even possible to break a bone that way) so I brought him home, wrapped his foot and put an ice pack on it. He went to bed about 20 minutes later, but the next day he was still in pain. I thought that was normal for a sprain so I didn't think too much of it. I gave it another day to heal and then realized that it just didn't seem like it was getting any better.
With his cousins around Callum surely would've run and played like normal if his ankle was feeling better, so when I saw him hobbling around with them I knew something was wrong. Finally I took him to the doctor and they gave him an X-ray that sure enough showed a fracture in his shin bone. The doctor reassured me that this is extremely common for kids his age and this type of fracture is even nicknamed the "toddler fracture" because so many toddlers break this bone. He also explained that it was good I waited because they wouldn't have casted it any earlier (to ensure any possible swelling had gone down). I am just trying to accept the fact that this might just be how it is with my little Zuzu for the next ten or fifteen years!
Callum got to choose the color of his cast (he had the options of white, red, blue, and purple). Decisively, he chose red right away and didn't even consider the other colors. The nurse brought over some glitter in a bin and there was blue, silver, and gold. Callum chose the gold, held it to his chest and said "Callum's". So a red and gold cast it was. It fits in well with his pirate fascination (and I think he secretly wanted to support his Niners. tee hee).
1 comments:
It was the perfect touch to his costume a pegged leg ahhahahahaha!!! Glad he is doing better. Who ever would have thought a kid could break their leg on a slide, do you know how many times I tried to break my leg to get out of the mile in PE???? to many times!!
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