Cannon's Broken Arm

On the day after Christmas Rick drove all the way out to College Station to pick up Cannon to stay with them for the weekend.  Ryan and I were really excited to have some time to ourselves and to work on some things around the house. 

We had a great date night that Friday.  On Saturday morning Bev called me saying that she thought Cannon broke his arm.  Rick and Robert had taken the 6 kids to a bounce house.  It was hard to tell what happened exactly, but from Cannon's words he said he was running on the trampoline and his socks made him slip.  He landed on the padding that covers the metal, but he hit in just the right spot to snap his arm.  He said he stood up and couldn't feel his arm.  He walked over to JT to tell him and JT carried him over to Robert.  At this point he wasn't crying.  Robert felt his shoulder first and as he made his way lower that's when it started to hurt Cannon and he was really crying hard.  They rounded up the kids and headed for the children's hospital. 

They said that Cannon was pretty emotional at this point, but was mostly concerned about having to get a shot.  He kept saying things like, "I hate Austin.  I'm never coming back to Austin.  Austin is bad luck.  I miss my parents; they are so special.  My mom is so beautiful and she is so special.  No cousins talk!  Only uncles can talk!"  It upset Cole to hear Cannon talk like that and he would say back to him, "You don't mean it!  Tell me you don't mean it!"

At the time, Bev was with Mom and Kristina.  Everyone met at the hospital and they all got there at the same time.  Rick and Kristina took all the other kids back home.  Rob, Bev, Grandma and Papa stayed with Cannon.  Bev kept me in the loop with everything as I scrambled to get myself ready and packed to meet them at the hospital.  Robert stayed by Cannon's side the whole time and was really there for him.  Cannon really felt better to have his Uncle Robert with him.  Robert was so calm with him and he even sang to him to help him relax and go to sleep.  It killed me to not be there with Cannon, but I felt so comforted knowing that he had so many people there to take care of him. 

They had to cut his shirt off of him.

 

He kept closing his eyes because he didn't want to look at his arm.

He had x-rays and then an IV.  The x-rays showed that he broke both his radius and ulna.  He didn't need surgery, but they gave him anesthesia so he would be asleep while they set the bones.  By the time I got there he was being discharged. 

 

He had a temporary cast on for almost 2 weeks.  Then he got his more permanent cast and he picked orange.  He wore that for about 3 weeks and got another cast.  This time he picked blue.  He will have the cast on for a total of 9 weeks.  We have a little over a week to go!

He had to keep his arm elevated for awhile. 

Just home from the hospital.

The kids were trying really hard to cheer him up. 

Getting his new cast

Orange!

We got some lunch afterwards

Lots of people signed his cast!

Cast off for more x-rays

Blue!

One good thing about going to Austin a lot is that we got more time to see Aunt Shae and Dave!  We finally took them to Lick ice cream!

 

Despite everything Cannon has been a real trooper!  He hardly complains of his arm itching and it certainly hasn't stopped him from playing and doing things for himself.  He's still doing flips on the trampoline!  This experience has gone more smoothly than I anticipated.  It will be so nice to have it off so that he can have a proper bath and so we can start riding bikes again!