What a day!

Yesterday was Mother's Day. I blogged about how great it was and everything, well than it happened. Jerad had a basball game at 3:15 against AIM. They were up 8 to 1 bottom of the 7th. Jerad stole home and came sliding into the plate face down. I knew the way he laid there that something was terribly wrong. He didn't even move or try to get up. Thank god there was an EMT there watching his newphew. He got the ambulance called right away and we got Jerad's head propped up out of the dirt. Jerad said he knew it was bad when he went to grab his upper arm and thought he was touching it but his fingers were still about 6 inches from his arm. The ambulance came and they got him rolled over onto a back board and loaded up. Oh man every little bump was so painful for him on that short ride to the hospital. It was so rough ridding for me, it was the first time I saw an ambulance go supper slow to the hospital because he litterally screamed after every bump jarred his arm which was tapped to his body at that point.

At the hospital they druged him up and took x-rays. Turned out he broke his humerous (the upper bone between the shoulder and elbow. The PA on staff called around to different towns that have orthopedic surgeons and they decided that setting it was not an emergency because he could move his thumb which meant his nerves were still in tack. Since none of the orthopedic surgeons would do surgery that night to set it into place (gotta love doctors that don't want to fix people on Sunday evenings, god forbid they might miss desperate housewives). Well the PA sedated him and moved his arm around to splint it and tape it to his body really good so it wouldn't move. Than sent us home with some major pain pills. With orders to call the doctors offices right away in the morning to schedule an appointment to get the arm casted hopefully today or tomorrow. What a joke having to schedule your appointments to get your broken arm set and casted after and emergency. Nothing like living in rural America. So now here I sit waiting till 8 or 9 when the doctor's offices open to see if I can get him in today than we will head off to wherever.