Broken

This past Tuesday our family experienced our first broken bone of our married life. In fact I have never broken a bone and Ammon has only broken his nose while we were dating. However, Kent is another story. As you know he just turned one and not even a week after his birthday he experiences a torus fracture of his tibia, right below his knee. He was hanging on a bar at our gym class when he let go, I had a hold of his hands but was not able to break his fall well enough. His leg hit the mat at a weird angle and he let out a scream that instantly told me he was hurt. We thought he would be okay after a while, but continued to cry. My dad held his hands to see if he could walk on it, but he just limped. We decided to take him across the street to the instacare, and by the time we got there he would not even put pressure on it. I was sure he had just sprained his knee or something of the sort, but I was wrong. They put him in a soft splint for a few days and then gave him a hard cast on Thursday when we could get in to see the orthopedic surgeon. He has to be in the cast for 4 weeks and then continually x-rayed for the year to check on the development of his growth plates right below his break. He has been a trooper and is now just starting to get frustrated with not being able to move around. Maybe this will give him the motivation to learn how to crawl, only time will tell.

After instacare he got a sucker and he couldn't have been happier.

Getting casted

He was so good, he loved the nurses, and just sat and "read" his favorite book while his cast set.

Showing off his new cast