Today Connor got his first cast! So those of you that don't know Connor's left leg really started bugging him last Monday. Whenever you would change his diaper or clothes and would bend or pull that leg he would just scream in pain. It was from the knee down that it was hurting. On Saturday I took him to the doctor and we had to do x-rays and with the x-rays the doctor wasn't sure if it was a fracture, bruised really bad to the bone, or something in the blood. So then I had to go to the lab and get his blood drawn and that was not fun! Worst than shots! Anyways so they told me to make a follow up appointment for Tuesday so I went back today and we had to get x-rays again and it turns out that he cracked his fibula! For those of you who don't know what the fibula is here is the wikipedia definition:
The fibula or calf bone is a bone located on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones, and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity is small, placed toward the back of the head of the tibia, below the level of the knee-joint, and excluded from the formation of this joint. Its lower extremity inclines a little forward, so as to be on a plane anterior to that of the upper end; it projects below the tibia, and forms the lateral part of the ankle-joint.
They could tell that from the last x-rays that it has been healing but he has to wear this cast till Monday and then get a waterproof one. The sad thing is is that we don't even know how it happened. This kid plays so rough and hard that he is always climbing and falling we just can't think of a time where he got really hurt we can just remember changing him and bending his left leg and him screaming in pain. As soon as he got the cast on Billy had to stick a Spiderman sticker on it of course. It is really funny to see him crawl around dragging it.
The fibula or calf bone is a bone located on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones, and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity is small, placed toward the back of the head of the tibia, below the level of the knee-joint, and excluded from the formation of this joint. Its lower extremity inclines a little forward, so as to be on a plane anterior to that of the upper end; it projects below the tibia, and forms the lateral part of the ankle-joint.
They could tell that from the last x-rays that it has been healing but he has to wear this cast till Monday and then get a waterproof one. The sad thing is is that we don't even know how it happened. This kid plays so rough and hard that he is always climbing and falling we just can't think of a time where he got really hurt we can just remember changing him and bending his left leg and him screaming in pain. As soon as he got the cast on Billy had to stick a Spiderman sticker on it of course. It is really funny to see him crawl around dragging it.
2 comments:
Aww! Poor kid! Xander had a cast on his arm last christmas, they are no fun :( At least he is little and won't remember.
Holy cow Amber! That's so sad, I can't believe that. So, you guess don't know what happened to him at all. That's so crazy. Poor Connor! I hope you guys find out how he did it. Yeah, we totally need to hang out or something sometime though. We get back on Friday night this week from California so next week we should do something. Anyway, love ya tons.
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