Party Foul, or a Bad Day

Seth committed the ultimate party foul yesterday. We were at my sister's house for Nate's birthday(which Seth was looking forward to for weeks) for about 5 minutes when Seth came to me crying about his elbow. I knew with one look it was bad. He had been climbing on my sister's treadmill fallen. I left Chase with my mom, and took my dad with me and Seth to see Uncle Kyle. Kyle gave Seth pain meds (yay) and sent us to the ER. X-rays confirmed that it was broken badly. An end peice of his elbow bone (I can't remember which one) had broken off and was floating around in his terribly swollen arm. After hours of torture with things like more xrays, splints, IVs, and being trapped in a hospital Seth had surgery at 10:30 pm. The surgeon made and incision and put 2 pins in Seth's elbow. He woke up around 11:30pm and was grouchy and complaining about his IV until the nurse took it out at 1am. She gave Seth more pain meds at 3:30am and he finally went to sleep. Considering how frustrating it is to have a child in pain and needing surgery, it all went pretty smoothly. Thankyou to the friends and family praying for us and the doctors, we really needed it. Seth handled it amazingly well, he really only cried about the IV (I would to if the nurse blew out my vein). Seth is home and sleeping in his own bed tonight and we are so thankful to God for him. The next 6 weeks will include a few more trips to the doctor, a few new casts, and removal of his pins (yuck!). Please continue to pray for him and his healing. Here are a few pictures, I did take one of his sad, little elbow, but I can't bear to look at it, let alone post it.


First ride in a wheelchair (first chicken-glove, too)


Seth with Papa, maker of chicken-glove

Post op with Optimus Prime (who got to go into surgery with Seth)