Ashley was here thank God and we were actually sitting on the trampoline with the boys when it happened. When Jason fell it was kind of graceful and honestly the fall itself didn’t look bad. He landed on his side and I thought the injury was because he bumped Ashley’s leg. We both heard a noise and I asked Ash “Did he hit you?” and she said “No?” so then I was hoping the noise was when his legs bumped together because one legs fell over on top of the other. (I know you can’t picture it but its playing over and over in my head) He had a different look on his face and I said “maybe he broke something” He let me straighten out his leg and there wasn’t any swelling or bruising that was obvious so we took them inside and gave some juice. About a minute of him crying and grabbing at his knee I knew something wasn’t right and so did Ashley. It wasn’t even a screaming cry so much as it was a pouty something hurts cry.
I said ok off to the ER we go. Then went a little into panic mode because Ryan had just dropped the boys off and the car seats weren’t even installed in the car. So I installed the car seats, Ashley grabbed my shoes and purse and we headed for the ER. On the way there he just held his knee but wasn’t crying so I was leaning towards a sprang or just a funny bump. I called Ryan first thing and he stayed pretty calm which was a relief because I too was holding it together and not freaking out. Had he of been flipping out I too probably would have.
When we got to the ER I went in and there wasn’t anyone there and they took us right in. The nurse looked at it and said she didn’t see any obvious swelling or anything that really stood out, but he would not stand and apply pressure. After the nurse left the dr came in and basically said the exact same thing but ordered an x-ray just to make sure.
When we went back for the x-ray Jason looked scared to death but held my hand and then was just fine. He laid perfectly still for the first two but on the third x-ray they turned him onto his side and the cry was different. You could tell that it caused pain.
After looking at the x-rays (for the knee which is where we thought the problem was) they couldn’t find anything so the dr. advised us to put it in a splint and see an ortho this week. Jason was really pretty content and happy. After the x-ray he had two dum-dum suckers, got a car sticker and enjoyed all the car paintings on the wall. He laid perfectly still on his tummy sucking away as they wrapped up his leg to keep him from bending it. The dr’s and nurses all just continued to talk about happy he was and how he didn’t really seem to be bothered by it.
I checked out and left assuming the dr.’s were right and in a few days all would be better. We got half way across the bridge and I get a phone cal.. “Ms. Williams the radiologist just reviewed the x-rays because we were still concerned that he wasn’t applying pressure and his leg is still broke.” WHAT?!? I stayed pretty calm on the phone but a billion texts were coming through, Reece was signing in the backseat and Jason wanted another sucker so it was hard to keep my focus. All I got from it was to keep the splint on, tibia and call ortho.
When we got home J saw the new train set we had bought at wal-mart for the boys to take to Livingston tomorrow to see Meme & PawPaw so we opened it up and he sat on the floor pretty content playing with the choo-choos. The rest of the evening was spent sitting around and trying to keep him comfortable. I bathed Reece while J hung out with Aunt Ashie and then he sat in my lap. My parents have been in Arkansas but after a long trip they headed back early today, but their phones were dead so they didn’t even have a clue till they got home and charged up their phones.
I did call the ER back and talked to the dr. to get some more details since I didn’t get to see the x-rays. She said that it’s not a bad break and really not even a hairline fracture. She said that it is more like a dent on the tibia below the knee. She said she would expect that the ortho will keep Jason in the splint for several weeks and surgery won’t be needed. I guess we will learn more tomorrow when we hopefully get in with the ortho.
My take on it all is this could have happened anywhere and the biggest lesson learned is that you can’t protect your kids from everything because life happens. Ashley feels awful because the trampoline was the gift from her. I told her not to worry about it. He has taken bigger jumps off the couch and harder falls on the sidewalk walking…he has been to playgrounds, water slides, in pools….it could have been anything anywhere! I am sure this won’t be our last accident, but in the meantime we are going to get our little man up and running again in no time! It might be a long next few weeks though...wish us luck!
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