No Walking!

The question of the day: how do you keep an active 2 year old boy from walking?

If you know the answer, please enlighten us. After a trip to Urgent Care this evening, Jairus came home with a splint, some Motrin and instructions not to walk!

I hear your question: what happened. So, here is the story.

This evening Jairus and Joe were preparing to go get the mail. Jairus ran to get his shoes/socks when he fell in the hallway. It was weird. He sometimes fake falls, and there are a few times he gets tripped up. But this time he got up crying real tears. Joe was finally able to get him calm enough to figure out that his left foot hurt. It was kinda cute when Joe was holding Jairus, he put his hands on his head, shook his head and said "oh no." Anyway -- when we put him down, he wouldn't put any weight on the foot and limped on his heel. He also wanted Joe to hold him. But we figured he just twisted it so no big deal.

About an hour later we were getting ready to leave for the football game which meant putting pants on the boy and his shoes. Well, he screamed when Joe put pants on him. That is when we noticed his foot was swollen. He still wouldn't put any weight on his left foot when he hobbled around. So, we decided to take advantage of having insurance and play it safe not sorry. Off to urgent care we went.

After a surprisingly short wait in the waiting room, we spent a long time in one of those curtain rooms. The doctor took x-rays to look for a fracture. X-rays were an ordeal to say the least. It took Joe, a female nurse, and a big male nurse to wrestle Jairus down and another nurse to take the 2 pictures. The x-rays didn't show a break, but the doctor said that toddler fractures are pretty common especially along growth plates (like at his ankle). So, she had a splint put on his leg and instructed us to see an orthopedic doctor next week. (Why don't things like this happen during the week so we can a specialist the next day??)

Now we are supposed to keep him from walking and watch for swelling and fever, etc. Good times.

We think it probably is just a bruise and sprain. But since neither of us have doctorates in any subject, we figured that we should follow instructions from someone who does. :) But all things considered, it is all good. Join us in praying that Jairus' foot and leg will be just fine.