Thursday, September 25, 2008

Dr visit for Connor

Connor was excited to have his whole football team sign his cast

We visited with the dr yesterday and took new xrays and he said that Connor's arm is "good enough". It's really close to being set just right, but since he broke it and then jammed the bones into each other (see the xray below) there are some places where it just can't match up just right. His arm was actually shorter than it was supposed to be before they set it again. When they sedated him they really yanked on it to pull them back out from each other again. It was quite nauseating. They said that he has growth hormones on his side and that the bones will grow over the slight mismatch. The readjustment on Monday made it so he won't have a bump under his arm when the bones heal. He's been really frustrated not being able to complete his school work quickly (since he is right handed)and it makes him a little upset to watch his football team and not be able to play. Our home teacher will make it all up to him this weekend though - he is taking Connor to a Utah Utes game. We got him a red shirt and he picked red for his cast color so he could really show his true spirit. :)

1 Comments:

At 9/25/2008 8:33 PM, Blogger Jeff said...

Wow, what an amazing kid. I can't believe he continued to play on a compound fracture. He must really love football. We hope all goes well with his recovery and that his arm heals as good as new. We've been having the pet discussion lately, but we haven't decided definitively if we'll do it. We're definitely waiting until we get back to Maryland for that. Traveling with an animal is not much fun for them.
-Jeff

 

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