Jul. 16, 2007 - Hard news about the broken collar bone!!!
Posted in Mothering in Grace
This morning I took Joshua to get his 4 week xray on the broken collar bone. It wasn't good news. It's still not healed. There is evidence of new bone growing (yea!!) but he's still not ready to come out of the sling. In fact, our ped thought it might be best to put him in a figure 8 splint for 6 more weeks. Woaw!!! Six more weeks!!!! I am not happy about that. I did find out last week from my naturopath that there are certain essential oils that are really good for healing broken bones. So we're going to step that up and I am going to do everything I can to encourage him body toward healing. He's been sick alot lately (this is the kid that is never sick) so obviously his body is working overtime. He's frustrated with not being able to do much. The worst part of all is that our family camp is coming up at Baylor two weekends from now. He's not going to be able to participate in hardly any of the recreation.
I am going to take him tomorrow to be fitted for his splint. But I am also going to request another x-ray in 3 weeks versus the 6 weeks by dr mentioned just to see if he's come along better. Everywhere I have read about the broken collar bone I have read it takes 3-6 weeks for someone Joshua's age to heal. So I am going with that. If I request another xray in 3 weeks that will put him at the 7 weeks mark.
I got the call about this this afternoon. Joshua was upstairs cleaning the playroom. That was a really hard climb up the stairs. I knew this news was going to crush him. He cried but he actually took it really well. I was proud. Now I am back to finding things for him to do during the day to pass time. At least he will have his arm free to write or paint or build. The sling will be gone.
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