Monday: follow up on Augustine’s hand (more in a minute)
Tuesday: Levi’s last two shots until kindergarten! (Not counting flu and covid)
Wednesday: Investigated Lewis’ sudden and very itchy rash on his armpit/shoulder/chest/arm
Thursday: children’s hospital for Augustine’s hand
Friday: investigated why my left foot hurts all the time
Lewis and I made the waiting go faster by building each other towers to knock over, but you had to sit on the other side of the room and knock it down. He tried to blow it over which was funny. Then he threw another cup at it but kept missing. It was fits of giggles.
Simple fix…cream for three days.
A little more complicated on this one. Augustine’s hand got hit by a soccer ball at recess last week and he heard a pop when it happened.
The doctor ordered an X-ray and told us it was badly sprained. Ace wrap for five days and reevaluate.
Five days later the swelling was down and there was a lot of light bruising. He also couldn’t move his thumb without pain. I decided a thumb is too important not to double check, so we headed to children’s hospital to meet with the doctor that found Elias’s elbow fracture two years ago.
He wasn’t sure there was a fracture in the thumb, but didn’t take another X-ray because the ligament on his thumb was pretty banged up (the pop he heard and the bruising) so Augustine was going to get a cast anyway. If there is a fracture then a cast will help that heal too.
3.5 weeks…not terrible considering they had to rule out surgery first. Let’s just put it this way, you don’t want a ligament to completely detach.
He was a champ.
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