The Broken Bone

About 7 on Saturday night, Jeremy comes upstairs, holding a rag to his hand and says it hurts.  He's accident prone, so I figured he'd cut himself or something.  He shows me his boo-boo....bloody and swollen nearly twice it's normal size.  We were going to the ER.  I loaded everybody up.  They took an x-ray to find out he'd broken a bone in his hand.  They cleaned up the wound, he got 3 stitches, the splinted him up, gave him some antibiotics via IV, some pain meds and sent us home.  We got home around 11:30. 

See the broken bone in the hand under the pinky....that's the one.

We went and saw the orthopedic doctor today.  His hand is still quite swollen.  He did get his stitches out and they gave him a proper cast (hot pink!) and they want to see him back in a month.  Unfortunately he can't work because he can't wear the proper personal protection equipment.  He may be able to get STD (short term disability....not the other, HA!) and the boss said he'd look to see if there might be something he can do at work.

 Notice how swollen and yellow (from bruising) his right hand is....his palm was still slightly purple.

Sportin' his brand new hot pink cast.  He chose the color and says real men aren't afraid to wear pink