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Andrew jumped out of the plum tree in our front yard, twisted midflight,and put out his right ( dominant, of course) arm to break his fall.
He has to wait for Friday for his cast, so the swelling will go down. I estimate he should get out of his cast two weeks before Nutcracker. It's a clean break of the forearm, a greenstick break but mostly the whole way through. He is acting pretty chipper- too chipper for a kid I need to keep from falling onto an already broken arm. He's 6.
This, like the stork thing, is purely myth. Kids come from fertilization of an egg by a single sperm cell. And the birth is either vaginal or via Caesarian section.
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Maybe you should get him involved in Wrestling, we are idiots who break bones and don't realize till years later when they are x-raying another break and find it (this has happened to 3 guys on my team). But after a wrestlers first couple of injuries, any other injury seems like fun, or maybe I just enjoy pain.
I'm so sorry to hear that! Having three kids on a farm, I also expected to have some "broken bones" incidents as a mom, but luckily have not -- other than one son broke a bone in his hand at school in junior high. *knocks on wood*
Give him a hug from all of us.
Was it his right or left? Is he right or left handed? Hope it wasn't the dominant side -- would make things difficult for him for awhile.
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Hang in there! Nathan broke his both the bones in his left forearm last spring (age 9)falling out of a tree - and had that cast off for three weeks when he broke his left wrist playing king-of-the-hill.
He got really good at puzzles and I got really good at remembering the daily calcium supplement.
I'm not sure who it helped more, CT! Nathan for bone strengthening - or me, just so I could feel like I was doing something!
I am happy to report that he has moved from broken bones to black eyes and big bruises from sports accidents (soccar head butts, base sliding, kickball misplacements, bicycle crashes . . . ) Maybe happy isn't quite the right word, but I'm sure you know what I mean . . . I hope . . . Posts: 5609 | Registered: Jan 2003
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However, he can operate a mouse left handed, and Dh just got "Warlord's Battlecry 3", so he's happy about that.
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I grew up around my brother who wrestled for four years of high school, then assisted with my high school wrestling team, while I was team photographer (I thought I would get to meet cool guys, but they all thought I was too nerdy to actually date. Oh yeah, and the big brother hanging around...). I was only convinced not to join the squad because someone thought to mention it would make me not only nerdy but positively weird if I was one of 2 girls wrestling in the entire state.
Anyway, speaking as a mom of a 7-year-old as well, I'm very much in favor of Greco-Roman wrestling for kids. It teaches a fair amount of physics, due to the nature of having to determine what effect a particular move would have. Leverage and all that.
My biggest gripe about wrestling is that no one is comfortable having a mom around to coach. My son's school sent home information about a summer wrestling program, and offered volunteer fathers for those kids who only had moms, or whose fathers were wrestling-impaired. As if I couldn't coach my own kid.
Anyway, I really think wrestling is a great sport for strength training and concentration.
Hope your boy is feeling okay today. David and I were discussing yesterday morning that we were about overdue for an emergency room visit for the little guy. Already 7 and only had stitches once and no broken bones.
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Breaking a bone is one of the most painful things I've ever done; I'm glad your son seems to be being chipper about it. Speedy recovery to him.
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Maybe it had a well supplied tree house in it.
I broke my arm once after getting tossed off a horse. It's not fun, so it's good he's taking it so well. I hope it heals fast!
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quote:Originally posted by lobo: "He's 6." "He's 7."
Ummm...how long was this kid in the tree?
I'm guessing that her 7 year old son broke his arm in July and that the 6 year old son is the "OTHER" son who just broke his arm. I'm also guessing that Romanylass didn't realize how much should would confuse us all by editing the initial post in this thread to remove all mention of the first incident rather than just posting the second incident at the bottom of the thread.
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Oh, I did make a huge mess and I am sorry. My now 11 year old broke his arm the July he was 7. The 6 year old broke his arm yesterday.
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In July of 2004 your 7 year old son broke his arm. He then climbed a tree and has been living up there for the past 4 years in order to avoid Judo lessons. Yesterday, he fell out the tree and on the way down he passed through some sort of a time warp so that although he was 11 when he started the fall, he was only 6 by the time he hit the ground and re-broke the arm that was was broken either 4 years ago or 1 year from now depending on how you count.
So my only questions remaining are. Where do you live? and If I took Judo lessons I could fall out of your tree and end up 5 years younger without having to break an arm?
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Well, at least with a greenstick fracture, that pretty much keeps the fractured parts in alignment, so it heals properly. Prayers for him.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: So let me see if I've got this straight.
In July of 2004 your 7 year old son broke his arm. He then climbed a tree and has been living up there for the past 4 years in order to avoid Judo lessons. Yesterday, he fell out the tree and on the way down he passed through some sort of a time warp so that although he was 11 when he started the fall, he was only 6 by the time he hit the ground and re-broke the arm that was was broken either 4 years ago or 1 year from now depending on how you count.
So my only questions remaining are. Where do you live? and If I took Judo lessons I could fall out of your tree and end up 5 years younger without having to break an arm?
Hey! It's not fair to make me laugh so hard in a topic about some poor kid breaking his arm!
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: So let me see if I've got this straight.
In July of 2004 your 7 year old son broke his arm. He then climbed a tree and has been living up there for the past 4 years in order to avoid Judo lessons. Yesterday, he fell out the tree and on the way down he passed through some sort of a time warp so that although he was 11 when he started the fall, he was only 6 by the time he hit the ground and re-broke the arm that was was broken either 4 years ago or 1 year from now depending on how you count.
So my only questions remaining are. Where do you live? and If I took Judo lessons I could fall out of your tree and end up 5 years younger without having to break an arm?
This made me laugh so hard, especially since Andrew does not seeem to be in pain and I am already worried he might intentionally break bones in the future because he is loving the attention.
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