Saturday, March 15, 2008

About a month ago Mac hurt his arm. He would walk around holding his fore arm whining. When he would trip he wouldn't catch himself with his right arm, he just fell on his face.

Whenever we would decide to take him to the doctor he would start acting like it was better and then, without fail, a couple of hours later he would start holding his arm again. Finally after the fourth day we took him to the emergency room. After waiting there for 2 hours, they changed him into a cute hospital gown and took a painful x-ray of his arm. Since I was pregnant and Drew was at Young Men's, the nurse had to hold him. He just sat and screamed as they twisted his arm around to get different shots. It was hard to watch. After all was said and done the doctor diagnosed him with "nurse maid's elbow." It's when the elbow pinches a nerve and it's extremely painful to move it. The doctor reset his elbow and Mac immediately started using his right arm. It was sore for another couple of weeks but is now as good as new. My only regret besides not taking him in earlier was that I didn't take a camera with me. Luckily my phone took a decent picture.