You be the judge

Cast off- did not go well. We went in thinking, like the doctor said, that the only potential problem was if the two bones he broke grew back together. Pat assured me we didn't have to worry about that because of the way Big Boy could rotate his arm, even in the cast. And we was right, the bones did not grow together.

So we were very optimistic. Big Boy was a great patient and got to keep his cast, which was awesome!






And then the cast came off. And it looked...bad. Exactly the way it looked when I took him in a month ago. The nurse had a bad look on her face, he had to get a ton of x-rays, and I felt sick. This is what his arm looks like:

In this picture you can really see how the bone sticks out still.

But isn't he still so cute and happy?


This is his "normal, other arm:

And this is his broken arm. See the difference, the big curve? His bones essentially healed curved and so much bone grew around the break that he has a mass that sticks out.


Despite all this, he is happy and healthy and will be going to a pediatric orthopaedist next week to discuss the next step. The kids have Easter parties at school today, and I just had to take some pics of them ready to go.











Pat has a feeling they will tell us he can have surgery where they re-break it and cast it again or that we can leave it and hope that it doesn't make too much of a difference. We'll see. I have to say, it looks horrifying in person. And to touch it feels like the bone is still sticking out. :( This is the worst part of parenting, when something is wrong with your child! So what do you think? Is he "healed"?