I Told Him So!

Remember me posting about Scooter climbing so high in the trees and how I am constantly telling him how dangerous it is?

Well this momma ain't just a bunch of words and Scooter learned the hard way that I was right.

Yesterday afternoon Scooter and his friend N were playing outside. Scooter had a "new" tree he had found to climb and they were having fun playing outside in the yard.
It was a beautiful day and I had the windows open in the house so I could hear them out back.

 I was cooking dinner and Tim was playing with Baby A when we both heard the scream. N came running through our back door yelling for us to come quickly.

Tim rushed out to find Scooter laying on the ground screaming. Sure enough he had fallen about 15 feet out of the tree. He got him up an checked him out and he was really banged up.

 He kept saying his wrist hurt so we cleaned him up and got him some ice. I have never broken a bone in my body except the tail bone and that is just a different story. Nothing much you can do about that. None of my children have ever broken a bone (thank goodness) so I had no idea what to look for or expect. His wrist looked normal....no swelling and no bruising. So Tim and I kept tossing around what we would do. After dinner Scooter was playing his ds with no problem and even moving his fingers without pain. We flexed his wrist up and down and he never yelled out in pain but he said it hurt a little. So I will admit I thought he was being dramatic. We decided to see what it was like in the morning.

Morning came and there was no change. Still no swelling or bruising, but Scooter couldn't make a tight grip on things. He could play his ds but he couldn't grip a spoon or pencil tightly. I went back and forth on whether or not to send him to school. Finally I decided to send him to school and see how he did. Then as I was taking them to school I had the great idea to take them in and get the school's registered nurses' opinion. She looked at him and his wrist and said I better take him to get it x-rayed.
We left the school and got an appointment with our pediatrician. Once we got there Dr. Z took a look at his wrist and then checked out his collarbone and shoulder and his face too. He said everything but the wrist looked good but he wanted to have the wrist x-rayed. Scooter got a splint put on his wrist and we headed straight to get an x-ray.

I wanted to get pictures of him getting his first x-ray  but wasn't sue if that was allowed. I did it any way and was trying to be sneaky so they aren't the best.

We didn't find anything out right away so we met up with Tim and had lunch with him. It was such a treat having lunch just Tim and I with Scooter (Baby A was staying with "Tinny" in case we had to go to the ER).

We headed to pick Rascal up from school early and then headed home to wait for the call from the doctor.
The phone call came and sure enough.....Scooter has fractured (broken) his wrist.

We head to see the orthopedic doctor early on Monday morning. Once we sit down and see just were it is broken at, I am sure they will be putting a cast on his arm. Scooter isn't too excited about having a cast put on his arm but maybe this will be a reminder that he shouldn't climb up in trees!