Ouch!

So it has happened… our first broken bone

On Tuesday evening, as Nick came home from work Logan got excited and ran to our room and began jumping on the bed.  Nick and I were in the kitchen and I asked Logan to stop jumping.  A few seconds later, he begins to cry.  Not just his normal cry, it had a different tone.  I knew he’d really hurt himself.  He said he hurt his foot jumping off the bed, when I looked at his foot there was no redness, swelling or obvious signs of something wrong.  I held him and tried to calm him (which took much longer than usual).  I had to work that night, so once I was sure Logan was calmed down, I left for work. 

Around 4am at work I got a message from Nick saying that Logan has woken up 3 times in the middle of the night crying that his foot hurt (which later the pediatrician told us was usually a definite sign of a fracture).  When I got home that morning, I took Logan to the pediatrician who had us get an x-ray.  Turned out he had fractured one of the bones in his foot.

I circled the bone that he broke.  His 3rd metatarsal.  It wasn’t fractured all the way through, just partially.  On Thursday morning we took our x-rays and went to a podiatrist.  The podiatrist wanted him in a cast because he said with a child Logan’s age, and as active as they are, he doesn’t want to risk having the fracture go completely through the bone.  Logan wasn’t happy with the idea of a cast at first, but it grew on him.

He now loves that everyone can sign it and he got to pick out his favorite color, red.  He will have this cast for 2 weeks, then they will take it off and repeat the x-ray and then place another cast for an additional 2 weeks.  After the 4 weeks in a cast, he will need to wear a shoe/boot for a little while also.

After all of this, my next challenge was to find something to help make Logan mobile again.  We could not find a knee scooter or crutches his height anywhere.  Everyone said they didn’t carry sizes that small.  Ugh, what the heck do they expect these kiddos to do?!?  I had the pediatrician and the podiatrist helping me look.  Finally, the podiatrist called to say they found somewhere that had a wheelchair his size.  Whew!  It took another day to get the wheelchair so we took our red wagon on our Polar Express trip (pics to come soon). 

 

Logan is absolutely LOVING this wheelchair.  He gets around so well in it, and he loves that he is able to have some freedom again.  He is such an independent little guy.  Tomorrow will be his first day back at school since breaking his foot and he is so excited to show his friends his cast and wheelchair!