Ouch. Tell Cal to get well soon from Curtis and Don.

Give me a call/text. I work at the 6 story building at the corner of Fiji and Lincoln so I'm there pretty much every day during the week unless I'm traveling.

Funny, yesterday I rode my bike down to pick up my car at the MAC and I saw some nice men in yellow jump suits doing some gardening down at the building you're talking about. I believe they are working off part of their debt to society ;)

man does this bring back memories i've broken more bones then i can and wish to remember.7 breaks and countless stitches. i always hated having the anesthetic injection more because when it gets injected it feels like someone put your arm in a vice. but man when those drugs hit me i was in heaven. last time i broke my arm while bing a snowboarding instructor i had a beautiful nurse by my side hitting on me and i was flying high as a kite. he will heal quicker than you know but the first week is always the worst as you realize what you can and cannot do.

All the best for sub-Static

my son just got his cast off a couple of weeks back - broke it 7/5 - same arm and it sounds like the same kind of break. second time he has done it.

this time he broke it at home and while he did it in front of me I couldn't see him as he was behind the kitchen counter. I heard him grunt and then he said - " I broke my arm again "

I told his friend they had to go home - we walked out to the car, he climbed in and I gave him a pillow to help support his arm and off we went.

Start to finish at the ER we where out in about 2.5 hours - maybe three as he was really zonked on special k. at one point he looked at me and said "dad you have three heads"

Total bill came out just under 9 grand. Insurance covered a large chunk of it.

Sucks it happened, but if he is anything like my 6 y/o he will be back up to speed by tomorrow figuring out how to use the gimpy arm.

Glad he is ok.

My favorite line during the post-drug haze:

"reality was stretching, then there was this white frame, then reality stretched again..."

It went on like that for about a half hour, punctuated with the occasional, "I don't know what I'm saying," and "I love you mom, I love you dad," and "did I really break my arm," etc...

That's a lot better than the foul language I spew. I've had to call back and apologize a couple of times.

Whoa, Todd! Glad he's going to be okay. Talk about a nightmare starting with that call... :(

I had a similar break when I was a bit younger than your son.

Right arm, broke both bones about 2 inches above the wrist. They were rather complex fractures, and took forever to set. I did not get the drug treatment as far as I remember. I do remember biting down on a hackey sack while the doctor counted to three. I think I blacked out after that.

Full cast past the elbow- it was a huge plaster one and very heavy. I was a little, skinny squirt and it was hard to live with.

Went back later for some final xrays and found out that the bones had set wrong. I remember my mother being PISSED. They had to re-break my arm. I think I took the drugs for that one. Afterwards I got just a small cast.

total time in two casts was about 4 1/2 months I think. Not good times.

The upside to all this that, since I was so young and I was in that cast for so long I became ambidextrous. I had to write with my left in school. After the case was off I would alternate using left and right as my right just didn't feel the same.

I still alternate when writing, and this later went on to foster my hobby in playing the drums.



Hope he feels better with that thing soon!

That's a kid right of passage. Glad everything is ok. No matter how hard you try, you can't keep your kid out of the ER.

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hoy! hopefully this was your 'hospital story' and the rest is smooth sailing!

Hey, at least he has a good story.

I've only ever broken one bone, and the story is lame. I was in 7th Grade. It was raining, so our genius gym teacher had us playing volleyball with a football. We were supposed to pass the ball over the net. That lasted all of three seconds. Anyway, someone spiked the ball (football), and I dove for it, and it smashed my left thumb against the gym floor. I kept playing figuring the pain would wear off in a few minutes. It didn't. Getting changed after gym class was a pain because I couldn't grip anything with my left hand--it made tying my shoes really fun. By this time, my thumb had turned purple and blue, so I walked down to the nurses office and declared that I think I had broke my thumb... A few hours late I had a cast.

Was he acting like this after the drugs?

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Broke the same arm in the same place at age 7. Part of growing up... hope he is ok.

I had a ridiculous number of broken arms as a kid, something like 8 breaks by age 18. Broke my arm 2 years in a row doing the exact same thing. (5th and 6th grade). It's easy to do, they're limbs hanging off of your body.

Most were simple fractures but a couple required either surgery or major re-setting. My orthopedic MD was also a distant relative, I have a memory of him humming and and singing "one toke over the line" while casting my arm in about 1970. I certainly never got any strong pain medication to take home; and with the exception of one hospital surgery to re-break and re-set an arm that was healing wrong, no general anesthesia ever.

I've had ketamine for oral surgery and it's the one drug that I absolutely refuse to be administered under any circumstance now. Narcotics don't bother me one bit and generally don't have an "after-life", (unless you're a junkie or get strung-out in a hospital). "Special K" is the nastiest substance I've ever had in my body, it's what I imagine PCP or meth to be like. Horrible aftertaste in the body and brain. Maybe it was just me and others don't get the same thing from it but I'd rather swallow draino.

I think that it's tough for some people to make the transition with a male child from the nurturing that is appropriate as a small child to letting them have their experiences when their balls drop. It was easy for my parents because they had their hands full w/ other children and sort of forgot about me most of the time. (Out of sight/out of mind). He'll be fine. We're all animals w/ survival instincts.

Glad to hear your boy is OK. I remember seeing him as a young guy. He had grown and matured considerably.

Good job at calming everyone. Sometimes that is the most important job, David

Make sure Calvin affords proper healing time for that arm - including once the cast is off. I know a kid who has broken the same arm 3x within a 2 yr span riding his skateboard. That boy needs to suck it up and wear a brace (protective gear is ghey...so I'm told) on that arm before he really screws it up permanently.

After years of Pop Warner football, little league baseball, rec basketball, and now Martial Arts Zack has been fortunate to have only suffered a rolled ankle, squashed finger, and a couple black eyes. Hope this post doesn't throw the kabash on his good fortune thus far...

Sorry about your son, Nostatic. Speedy recovery.