The boy that bounces…

Didn’t bounce this time.

This pic was taken about 15 minutes before

this happened:

Yes. Jakob is broken. Not just a broken arm, but his elbow.

The smile on his face is deceiving. He is mad at having a broken elbow, mad at not being able to do all that he wants to, MAD at things he feels like he is “missing out on”. Mad at the tree in our front yard that he fell out of. And the word ‘mad’ is being very mild. Very mild.

Tuesday we will see the Orthopedist and find out where we go from here. I am going to push for a cast to go on this kid. I mean, HELLO!?! It is JAKOB! If they say “just make sure he is careful and keep him ‘down’” I will look the Dr. straight in the eye and say, “CAST HIM.” Unless they give me a really good reason why he shouldn’t have a cast, I fully expect to come home on Tuesday with Jakob in a full arm cast.

Tonight I took off the ace bandages and carefully washed his arm with a warm washcloth. Poor Jake is itching so bad, I was willing to at least try it! With ulterior motives of course - I wanted to see that elbow! He wasn’t very happy with me taking pictures, but gave in eventually!

This bruise is 3 or 4 times the size it was the night before… I am definitely going to keep an eye on that.

You can also see the swelling from almost the arm pit to mid low arm. That has gone down maybe a ‘smidge’ but not much.

Maybe if he would STOP MOVING AROUND so much!!! Yeah. Right. Anyone wanna take that task for me??? Anyone? Anyone?????? PLEASE?

 

Stay tuned for more pics and details… Hopefully those details won’t be that it is worse. Or that he has fallen and broken it further.

Yeah.