Another ER visit for Korbyn a broken thumb

On Wed the 16th I got a call from the school about 1:40. The school secretary said that Korbyn was in the office and his thumb was really swollen and he was crying. If you know Korbyn you know that the kids does not cry very often when he is hurt. He will usually hide it from people and doesn't like people to know he is in pain. So when she said he was crying I knew something was seriously wrong!

I got the girls figured out and headed up to primary childrens as I was 98% it was broken and we would end up there anyway. The ER was packed so we had to park far away from the ER and walk over. He was being so brave! They admitted us right away but they were a little backed up. He was the only one there for an injury everyone else had gross coughs. This is a comparison of his thumbs The white spot on the swollen thumb is where the break is. They gave him some ibuprofen and an x-ray then we waited for a room.

An hour later he got a room and was excited to watch some tv while We waited an hour for them to read the x-ray. 

They finally came in and said he had a compression fractur in his thumb and it was very uncommon to see this type of break in a kid and especially in the thumb and he must have taken a very hard fall. His story was he was running down the mountain to PE and tripped and fell and caught himself with just his thumb. I wasn't sure what mountain he was talking about he showed me the next day it was literally he was just running outside on the black top at the school and tripped! And of coarse he tripped right out of both cameras views at the school. But the PE teacher did say it was a pretty hard fall. The ER gave him this brace and told him to wear it unless he was sleeping or showering.

We drove home just as the sun was setting and boy are they pretty from way on top of the mountain!

This is his x-ray its kinda hard to see but on the left had side you can see the fracture on the bottom of the middle bone. We were told to follow up with orthopedics in 7-10 days.

The next day! This is with ice and ibuprofen.

His kitty gave him lots of extra attention and loves!

The third and worst day for swelling and bruising.

He had his follow up on wed. and was so excited the doc said he could continue playing jr. jazz if they would let him play with a brace on and suggested we get him a smaller one on amazon that gave him more range of motion. We are still waiting to hear back if they will let him play or not. He was excited get one that was blue and not boring black.

He has been so brave thru all of this and only asked for medicine to help him a few times. His Next appointment on dec. 14th and he is hoping it will be healed enough then that the wont have to wear a brace on Christmas morning.