Well, that's a first

Peter hurt his arm yet again (no that's not the first, that would be the fourth). Having been through this before, his father and I are getting very aware of what happens when a kid injures their arm. We've long since stopped going to the pediatrician first, and go straight to the otrho-pods. This time, since we knew they'd just put a brace on and wait a couple of days to x ray it, we totally skipped the middle man and put one of the old braces that Peter had (from a previous injury) on him, and waited a couple of days.

So, yesterday I took him to the ortho-pods, and they x rayed him, and poked and prodded, and asked him to move his arm and wrist this way and that.

Usually this is accompianied by a few nods from the doc, then followed by a cast. Peter really, really, really didn't want a cast: he's less than two weeks from his Webelos overnight trip, and just over two weeks from Carolina Basketball camp.

Yesterday, the poking and prodding was accompianied by some "Hmm's" from the doc, plus a couple of trips to look at the x rays again.

Turns out that the pain Peter was feeling was NOT in the wrist area, it was in the hand area. The trips to look at the x rays multiple times were to check for breaks in the carpals, and there were NONE! None, I say!!!!!

So, they want him to continue to use the brace, and he's to absolutely avoid contact sports (and dinosaurs) for the next 10 days, then they'll check him again on the 10th!

Yay!!!