It has been 2 weeks now that Kaiden has fractured his collar bone. On Sunday March 29 we were headed home from a wedding in Dallas and decided to stop at the rest stop in Huntsville. If you have not stopped there it is pretty cool. It's fairly new and has a playground and a nature trail. We thought it would be great to let the kids get out and burn off some energy after being in the car for so long. Kaiden was going down the twirly slide and landed on his arm. All I heard was this blood curdling scream and I knew right away that something was wrong. He calmed down and told me that his arm hurt, and kept pointing to his left chest/collar bone and could not move that arm very much. We went ahead and headed home, gave him some medicine, a nice hot bath, and put him to bed. The next morning I woke up and decided that I needed to take him to the dr. since he still could not move his arm very well and said it really hurt. We went to the dr and then took him to get xrays. The dr. called me that night and told me that he had a fractured collar bone. There is not much you can do for a collar bone, they can not cast it. It has to just heal on it's own. So we went Tuesday and got him a sling and a figure 8 strap.
We had such a hard time getting him to wear it and leaving it on. How do you tell a 3 1/2 yr old to be "careful" and to not use that arm??? The sad part was that we had to tell him to not play, he was so upset.
He is doing much better now and can actually lift his arm , not all the way, but he can lift it. He technically does not have to wear the sling and strap anymore, but we are going to make him wear it when we go somewhere just so that his shoulder stays in place a little better. This whole situation has made me a little more stressed out these past 2 weeks because he has almost re injured it several times. That boy is way too active to be slowed down by a fractured collar bone!
Figure 8 and sling. We had to safety pin the sling so that it woudl stay in place.
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