There has been a bit too much "excitement" going on at our house this week. First, I was eating a piece of roast and got some wedged between two of my teeth. When I used dental floss to get it out, my tooth also cracked. I went to see Dr. Theurer to get it fixed, and he had to do a fair amount of drilling to repair it. It still doesn't feel quite right, but it doesn't actually hurt anymore, and he said that he will re-check it next month when I go in for my regular check-up.
Then, today (Thursday the 16th), the twins were supposed to have a short day which means that they go to preschool an hour earlier than normal. I completely forgot, so they were an hour late to class. Turned out that while I was there dropping them off, Liam had an accident on the playground and fell from the slide and hurt his arm. The office called home and Scott told them that I was dropping off the twins, so the secretary came and found me. If you didn't know, Liam has quite a high pain threshold. So, for him to still be crying loudly when I got to the office close to 10 minutes after he fell told me that there was more to it than just a bump. I signed him out and took him to the Insta-Care. We had to wait a while to go back, and by then he had calmed down and was moving his arm without showing much pain. I began to wonder if I had over-reacted, but the doctor wanted to do x-rays anyway. Good thing, since it turns out that he had broken BOTH bones in his arm, about 1 1/2 inches from his wrist. They put him in a "soft" cast (essentially a splint) and told me to make him an appointment with an orthopedic specialist for consultation and casting. Hopefully, there won't have been any serious damage to the growth plates and 6 weeks in a cast will take care of the problem. We find out on Wednesday. I was annoyed that we have to wait nearly a full week, but apparently it needs to be long enough for some healing to have begun for them to tell if the growth plate was affected.
