Broken Elbow

WOW! What a week! I got the dreaded call from school on Tuesday that said that Jarod had fallen and that his arm was hurting. My friend took Andrew and I went over to the school. Poor Jarod! He was in so much pain! We went back to the house and I called the doctor. They said they could see him in an hour. I wasn't too happy, but thought it would be better than waiting in the ER. So, we went and the doctor on call said that he wouldn't be surprised if it was broken and sent us to the Imaging center for x rays. That was hard because we had to rotate his arm to get a good shot. Well, when your arm is broken that is very painful. But Jarod was a trooper and did really well. Then they sent us back to the doctor who then sent us to an orthopedic surgeon. The doctor there said that Jarod would need surgery and a possible pin in his elbow. That is not exactly what I wanted to hear. They put Jarod in a temporary cast and sent us home.

The next morning we went to the hospital. We had an amazing nurse, Penny. She was so great with Jarod. She talked to him about everything that was going to happen and took really good care of him. We waited two hours for all the pre-op "stuff" and then the actual surgery only took about 1/2 hour. The doctor said they didn't need to put in a pin. We were very thankful for that! Everything went very smoothly and we were home by 1:00 that afternoon. God was so good through the whole two days!

Jarod's main concern through the thing was that he didn't want to miss his first grade program on Thursday night. Well, he made it! He felt fine to go back to school on Thursday and the program was great! What a brave kid!

Here's Jarod waiting to go into surgery.

This was our wonderful nurse Penny taking Jarod to the car.

Here we are at home. Jarod couldn't wait to have his friends sign his cast!

I had to get a picture of the whole cast! He was so brave!