About a week and half ago Martin was playing soccer at the school playground and a sixth grade boy tripped him. Down Martin went on his arm. It hurt and I said that we need to wait just a bit to see if it will feel better. Martin tends to "cry wolf" so I don't want to rush to the ER for every little ouch he gets. That night it was not feeling any better and I said I would call the doctor. In the morning he was holding it pretty tight against his body. I called the doc and he wasn't in yet. I sent Martin to school and I would call the doc again after they were open. I planned on picking him up if I could get him in that day.
I called again and they were able to see Martin at 10:40 a.m. I picked him up and off we went to the doc. X-rays were taken and Dr. Carlson felt there might be a fracture because he could see the fat pad around the elbow but he wanted a specialist to look at it. He put it in a half cast and off we went to the specialist. Actually I had to go to work for the afternoon and my sister took sick leave for the afternoon and took Martin for me. The good news is that there wasn't a fracture of his arm but apparantly he somewhat squished his growth plate. He would continue to wear the half cast until he would see the first doc again.
A few days before the second appointment Martin was playing tether ball at recess and he was losing. He decided that he needed power so he wacked the ball with his casted arm. He broke the cast!!!! When I talked to him about it he said, "But mom, at least I won." Oy vey!
Back to Dr. Carlson with new x-rays taken and with the compression of the growth plate diminished he was able to discrern a salter fracture which is a fracture in the growth plate of Martin's left elbow. Now Martin is in a full cast from below his shoulder to his hand. I sure wish I would have kept his accident insurance policy after I retired! Remember in June, 2010 he broke his left collarbone!
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