on tuesday of this week we started to notice that gerrit's left arm was a little sore. when we would put on his shirt he would whimper a little and he didn't seem to use it as much. we watched it for a day and it didn't seem to be getting better, so we called the advice nurse on wednesday and of course they told us to bring him in.
so thursday afternoon found us at the doctor, then radiology for an x-ray, and then the minor injury center for the cast on a broken arm. there was never a big fall with lots of tears, so hugh and i aren't quite sure what happened. he seems to handle injury well as he was dancing and running around the waiting room at the minor injury center. and he was an excellent patient as he just sat back with a pacifier while the technician put on the cast. the doctor did tell us it wasn't a spiral break, therefore cps will not be hounding us (yet). phew!
we go to the orthopedist on thursday, so hopefully we will find out how long he will be in the cast. as you can see from the picture he seems to be doing just fine with the cast. somehow i have gone 31 years without a broken bone in my body and gerrit can't seem to be go 20 months, so i am sure this is the first of many injuries.
