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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
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.

[ October 29, 2008, 03:39 PM: Message edited by: romanylass ]
 

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Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
 
How old is he?
 

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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
 
I'm glad he's ok.

You might consider Judo lessons so he can learn to fall.

-Trevor
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
He's 7.

Judo lessons- I will have to try and talk him into that.
 

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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
 
Judo is the most fall-intensive.

Close seconds are Akido and Ju-jitsu in that order.

Most Japanese martial arts learn the basics of falling, but it's not nearly as intensive or as likely to become reflexive.

-Trevor
 

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Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
RL,

Good luck. My son is in his second cast with a broken right fibula. He is due out of this cast July 20th and we are excited for him.

Hope all goes well!

P.S. My son fell out of a tree...
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 

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P.S. My son fell out of a tree...

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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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Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
 

 

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Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
 
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.

Stryker
 

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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
 
We're trying not to scare her any more than necessary.

-Trevor
 

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Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
 
Bob, you are awesome.
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
LOL Bob!

Umm...wrestling...not.
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
romanylass

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.

Farmgirl
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
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.


 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 


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 . . .
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
Farmgirl, it WAS his dominant hand.

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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Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
 
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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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
Ooops, I should have posted that here intead of post 1.
 

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Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
 
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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Posted by lobo (Member # 1761) on :
 
"He's 6."
"He's 7."

Ummm...how long was this kid in the tree?
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
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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Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 

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Originally posted by lobo:
"He's 6."
"He's 7."

Ummm...how long was this kid in the tree?

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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?

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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?

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