Game Over... for 6-8 weeks...

[cadillacman]

poor kid.. hes like me when i was young.. it isnt that bad lol glad it wasnt worse man..

My 11 year old son was doing some chores and decided to see if he could dance on top of a broken cinder block...

That's supposed to be his arm a couple inches above his wrist. The 25.3 degree measurement is supposed to be 0 degrees... meaning straight and *NOT* broken.

His threshold for pain was described to us as "extremely high" by the Orthopedic doctor in the ER today. See... he did this Thursday evening around 5:30pm and we didn't go to the doctors until 11am this morning since it didn't hurt "that much". Yeah... right buddy.

The huge "swelling" we thought we felt was actually the bone pushing against his skin. The doc said that it really wasn't that swelled.

So... after 6-7 hours in the doctors office and ER what do you think he wanted to do? Play games of course. He even talked me into stopping at Game Stop on the way home to pick up some 3DS games(sorry Casey, we would have stopped over to your shop but we've cleaned you out of good 3DS games).

Pinballs are out... and I'm not sure he'll be able to play any of the arcade games with buttons and a joystick but Pac-Man should be doable at least.

 

[Jeff F]

Just want to close out the thread as "repaired"...

 

[cwales]

Just want to close out the thread as "repaired"...

That must feel good! Tell Cam I said congrats!

 

[Cmndr Brain]

Excellent. Add that one to the scrap book.

 

[nesjess]

Glad to see your son made a quick recovery, Jeff! Now back to happy gaming!

 

[tyranix95]

COOL!

Now, back to the board(s)!

 

[gorfchampion]

Awesome! He looks happy....

 

[cleverlyj]

sweet. so is his cast arm all small and non muscley? i've seen that happen before with broken arms.

 

[Jeff F]

He'll get a kick out of the responses... thanks guys.

sweet. so is his cast arm all small and non muscley? i've seen that happen before with broken arms.

The most noticeable is his actual hand... when you look at the two side-by-side you can see the cast hand is smaller. His forearm is also a bit smaller but his bicep looks almost the same.

He still can't really straighten it out. I'm helping him though... every time I see him with his arm in the "cast position" I saw "Hey... it ain't broke no more!". Don't worry... he wants me to do it.

 

[88mph]

Nice fix--you can barely tell where you bondoed!