I kinda had to grin while typing this post and labeling it "Life with Ollie", cause really this is what life is like with Ollie for us. There's always something some year, a seizure, stitches, stitches on the face again, and now for year 4 a broken bone. It doesn't happen cause he's this wild crazy boy. It happens, cause he's just got poor luck. The poor kid can't catch a break. Well I would take stitches over a broken bone any day, but I guess now we know how things go with casts and such.
On Sunday the 11th after church I decided I would take a nap with Milo. I LOVE me a nice Sunday nap, Adam doesn't love to take naps cause he feels more tired afterwards so it works out. The kids asked him to go jump on the tramp, and being a fun awesome dad he obliged. While bouncing the kids, Ollie came down and landed in a weird way that hyperextended his knee backwards. Because of the tight tendons that connect the top of your Tibia (big bone in the lower part of your leg) to your knee it pulled the top of his bone hard enough to break it. I guess it's common enough that orthopedics call it the Tampoline fracture. Common enough that his cousin has done the exact same thing, on a tramp, breaking the exact same bone in the same place.
Adam woke me up and told me how he hyperextended it. We wondered if it was broken or sprained or just twisted weird. It wasn't swelling a lot, which I guess is more common with a break, where a sprain swells. ANWAY he kinda whimpered for a minute off and on. But if he didn't move it he was fine. We told him he was being super tuff about it, and he told us, "I'm probably not that tuff." Cute boy. Daddy gave him a blessing before bed that he could sleep well, and with some meds he did great in the night on our floor. Come Monday morning we knew we had to take him in. SOOO even though we went early to the instacare, we were there for like three hours. Luckily the boys were entertained on phones. We were grateful for the doctor we got, cause he insisted that the orthopedic office see us that day even though they were slammed, cause of the way his bone had shifted. It wasn't a huge shift, but it wasn't supposed to do that. They told us they'd squeeze us in, but it'd probably be a long wait just like we had waited there.
So at 3:00 having grabbed Gabe from school a little early we headed to their office. I have never been treated so well at a doctor's office before! I was so impressed at their staff. We were told we'd have a huge wait, and they helped us as soon as we were there. I think cause he was a kid, which they see, but most of their patients tend to be older people with broken hips and such. They told us that he might need surgery that night, but they had to wait for Dr Butterfield to determine that who was in a surgery but almost done.
So we waited about an hour, Adam taking the other two to run errands and we hung out. The staff constantly checked on us. It was nice. Dr Butterfield told us that because it had shifted he could go do surgery and put some bolts in it, but if it were his kid there is no way he would let anyone do that. He said he thinks it'll heal on it's own. He was confident about it, which is nice cause we have no idea and he's the specialist. He wants to use surgery as a last resort. So this year at 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and a year from now he has to get X-rays to make sure it's healing ok. If it isn't in a year, they'll rebreak it and do surgery. So here's to praying and crossed fingers all will be well. Doing this again with a surgery in a year isn't really something we look forward to.
We are SUPER bummed for him, but he has been AMAZING! We thought he would back pedal in being independent and want everything done for him, but he's been completely opposite! He is out to prove he can do it all. Crazy boy. We had just got him talked into playing soccer this spring. :( Guess we'll try in the fall.
The front view of his bone-His Proximal Tibial Fracture
In this side picture you can see how the top of his bone has shifter away from the rest of it. It's not as extreme as it could be obviously, but enough to consider surgery.
After our first visit with a well deserved push pop Gabe and Milo brought him from the store.
Our friends and neighbors brought Ollie this gift bag full of fun goodies and entertainment. So nice! He was so happy. It included a lot of ninja turtle stuff so he was excited as you could imagine. His His preschool made him a huge get well card, and another day made him some little notes. So cute! The Wads brought him this magnet activity book he could sit and do. He's been pretty spoiled. He was super melancholy and lethargic the first few 3-4 days and it was rough. Harder than I thought just cheering him up. He didn't want to play or eat, just lay and not move. So when people went out of their way to make him happy we were so grateful.
We made him his favorite cookies and foods, and got him take out from his favorite place. We got him some new shows, but still sitting around is HARD for a little boy! We got library books and movies cause for the first week he couldn't sit for long periods of time. It hurt him too bad.
Once he got his hard cast on, it was such a huge difference! He wanted red of course, it's his favorite. He didn't even care to look he just said before we got there, "I just want red Mom. I just want red."
He was so very proud of his cast, and we even got his Doc "Dr B" to sign it first. We got home and he gave me a million requests of everything he wanted on it. He told Gabe he wanted her to draw a hearts and a minion, I got the task of ninjago characters and ninja turtles. :/ cute boy.
This is Zane, he's is Ollie's favorite ninjago lego character.
Rafael the best I could. He wanted all four turtles and all four ninjas, I kinda talked him out of that for now. It's pretty full now of signatures and doodles. I'll take a pic before he gets it off.
Our neighbors have let us borrow board games and puzzles and other stuff to play with.
He now drags himself all over the house, which the doc said is ok. He's determined to be independent most days. He started trying to walk on it, and I shut him down on that one. That, he isn't supposed to do. He doesn't love that. We thought about getting crutches, but the doc said at home he could just drag it around, and he's not very coordinated right now. When we go out he rides in a cart or a stroller. At preschool and church he drags himself around and does the stroller so it works for us.
Having a broken leg happily gives him an excuse for the HUGE carts at stores.
We broke down and got a wii. It helped keep him busy and gave him some movement if he's just gonna be sitting. We are all surviving and working through it. We had him sleeping downstairs for a bit, but he's upstairs again. They said he'd have it four weeks, which they originally told us six, so four is good. So hopefully at his appointment it looks good enough to take off.
