Austin's broken arm

Our family's first experience with a broken bone. He was a trooper. Austin made his second attempt to climb up the back porch of the cabin on Mt. Graham and fell back on his arm. It quickly became very painful and we realized he needed to have an x-ray to see if it was broken. We decided to load up everyone and head back down the mountain even though we had planned on staying another night. So we gave him some hydrocodone and made the long drive down with him on mom's lap in the front seat. Thank heavens for zip lock bags which holds throw up rather well! Don't ask Grandma where the bag of Rylan's throw up went though!!

I made an attempt to stop at mount graham family practice to see if they would see Austin instead of waiting for the urgent care to open. The lady told me no but Dr. Christensen walked out to my car and told me he would see me. He was so nice. We went to the hospital for x-rays and back to the Dr. where he said he had an angulated supracondylar fracture. We were told he need to see a orthopedic surgeon to get it fixed. The office was more than helpful in getting names of Dr's in the Phx area for us to see. Dr. Christensen even called one here in Phx and talked to him about the break. He recommended he be seen that night at Phx Childrens hospital because those type of fractures can go bad quickly and he can lose blood supply to the arm. Not what I wanted to hear. So we went back to Grandma Susan's and loaded up the car and drove home. Richard had just gotten home from being in Prescott for 2 days working on a job and was exhausted as was I. We decided to get some sleep and go to the ER in the morning. This is one of the few time I relied on that thing called "mother's instinct " and went against the dr's recommendation. We were glad we did cause the break wasn't as bad as origionally thought. We went to Phx Childrens in the morning and got right in. They were so good there. He did not need surgery. We will go see an orthopedic surgeon in a week to get a cast and everything will be just fine =) He now has steady pain but thanks to motrin every four hours he does ok.