Broken wing

Just got through getting Caleb's left arm casted today (6/25/09). I feel like an awful mom. It's been broken for nearly a month! It happened a day after Taylor had his finger jammed badly at church. Caleb and Samuel were rough housing, and they fell with Samuel on Caleb's arm. Then he tried to yank his arm out. He came out where Nathan and I were and said that his arm hurt. He was holding it and saying that he it was broken. He had heard Taylor saying this about his finger many times just hours before, and a nurse at church assured us it was not broken. So when Caleb started this I took it with a grain of salt. Both arms looked exactly the same. We squeezed on the broken arm and got no real reaction. He said it hurt a little. We were expecting a broken arm to cause screaming pain. He wimpered a bit more about it that night and only slightly the next day. And since then the arm was continuing to look normal, and he was playing and swinging from stuff, helping carry groceries, and even picking berries a couple of weeks ago with nothing else being said we figured it was bruised and now okay. Then Monday I noticed a swollen spot on the side of his arm that was hard. We scheduled an appt. and ended up with an x-ray and a cast. After his x-ray - which he was SOOOO proud of - he said, "I told you it was broken." AARRGGGHHHH!! The doctor said it will be fine and that the good news is he only has to wear the cast for 2 weeks instead of 6 since his arm is 2/3 healed. The bump came about when the bone was mending and ocassionally it would slip since it was not immobilized. It was creating a larger bone mass around the break, but he said that this should absorb and everything look normal in about a year. S..I...G...H... Well it doesn't look too bad. Just like he has a large muscle in his forearm, so I can deal with that for a year I suppose. He's one tough cookie to have not complained about the pain anymore than he did. Even today with everyone squeezing on it, he acted like all was fine! Guess I haven't quite figured out when to panic and react and when to take it with a grain of salt and let things roll off. Still learning..

We went berry picking again this weekend and the cast didn't get in the way at all! Of course the inside of the cast has a pretty purple tint to it now though! LOL