Earlier this fall Joel and I had a conversation about how lucky we are to be blessed with healthy children. We have four wonderful kids and not one of them have been touched by any hospital stays, broken bones, or even stitches. Now we have had our share of earaches, colds, and a bit of asthma and allergies, but nothing so serious. Three out of the four kids have had their tonsils out and two of the boys have had hernia surgery, but neither of those surgeries could be prevented. (Now don't think I forgot about John's accident when he was little. I know he needed many stitches after being hit by the car. I am only able to report on what I know of since I have become the mama in the family.) We have not had one broken bone, stitch, or hospital stay.
Well, that was before December!!!!! Since then we have had a trip to the ER with Jaylen to get three stitches in his finger and to the clinic for x-rays to see if Jerrin had a broken foot.
Here are a few photos of Jaylen's mishap. I could not find the photo I took when he came home with his stitches, so I guess we need to settle with the photos of the "surgery" that took place to take them out. Yes, it took Auntie Amy, Granny, and Auntie Jen to take them out. Thanks you to the nurses and loving Auntie's in our family.
He didn't even flinch while they took the stitches out, but he was sure upset when he awoke, to find that his "spiders" were gone. (When he first got the stitches he did not like to look at them at all. He kept them covered at all times and called them his spiders.)
Jerrin and his boot. Jerrin's story starts with a fun trip to the Casselton Governor's Inn Waterpark with a good friend. The boys were swimming and having fun on the waterslide when Jerrin came down and his foot was really sore. When he got home he could not put much weight on his foot at all. That evening it just kept getting more sensitive to touch and by the time he tried to go to bed it was pretty swollen. We debated on taking him into the ER but opted out in hopes that the Ibuprofen, ice and elevation that we were doing would bring things back to normal in the morning. Well, morning came and it was most definitely not better. Jerrin could not put any weight what so ever on the foot at this time and it was still swollen. So away we went to the doctor.
After an app't and x-rays the doctor told us that she was pretty surprised there was not a fracture on the top of his foot. She was a bit worried about how sore the foot was and that the injury seemed to lie right over or beside his growth plate, so she decided to put a boot on anyway, to protect the injury and for faster healing. He would also need to stay out of all activities for 2 WEEKS! That is a long time in a third grade boy's world.
Everyone is now healthy again. I just hope that this unlucky streak with the kids has now ended, because if anyone know us at all, Joel and I are the two most UNLUCKY people I know in all other areas. So if we can keep the injury and sickness monsters away that would make us a very happy mommy and daddy.
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