foto-story Friday #10-- stake boarding story

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

Gather round boys and girls, listen up and take note of my tale.  

There once was a boy, a young man really, who enjoyed all the usual things young men like:  biking, swimming, skate boarding, video games and a good book.  One day, not so very long ago, he was in need of some reading material and so inquired of his mother if he might skate board down to the local library.  His mother replied if he took his younger brother along, he could go.  The boys took off as they had done in the past one on a skateboard and the other on a scooter.  Their mother settled into her book, tended the other children and chatted with her sister.  Soon the phone rang, the number was local but not one she readily recognized, but she answered it.  The voice on the other end said:  "Hello,this is Mary at the Medical Center and I have a Cody here."  The wise mother thought, that was not a medical center phone number and replied:  "OK"

The young man got on the phone and in a fairly calm voice responded:  "Hi, Mom, I think I broke my wrist."  The mother not quite believing what she had just heard said:  "What!?"  The still calm young man, Cody, replies:  "I think I broke my wrist, could you come get me? I'm at the library."  The mother, of course, tells him she will be right there.  She informs the younger kids they will be going for a short ride and wakes her napping husband with the news.  The father sits bolt upright and quickly volunteered to go take a look at the wrist in question.  The mother is a bit bummed as she won't get to see the arm if, in fact, it does happen to be broken.  She waits very impatiently for his call. Soon, the call comes that in deed they will be headed to the ER for some x-rays as their son's arm is sorta S shaped!  More waiting and another call comes that IF the orthopedic Dr is still in they will set his arm and be on their way.  As soon as they arrived at the ER the young man's arm was placed in a sling and a doctor went in search of the specialists.   The poor mother waiting at home, really was hoping they would NEED her to come and be of moral support, but no they were fine without her, so she did what any woman would do, she made a few phone calls.  She called her mother and posed this mathematical question:  What do you get when you add:  one skateboard + one Cody?  The Grammie guessed one broken leg.  The Grumpa guessed a bunged up knee.  The mother also called her sisters:  one guessed a skinned up elbow, the other scrapes and bruises.  She also called her bud, Wendy who was the best guesser with a trip to the ER.  The father son team headed from the medical center to the store for some pain meds, while the mother got some dinner cooking.  The suspense was driving the mother insane, but they finally arrived home and this is what she saw:

When they arrived home the mother was informed of how they realigned the bones.... The Dr placed Chinese finger traps {not really, but that is how the young man described them.}  on each each finger and the thumb which were attached to a device that stretched everything back into place as a crank was turned that was attached to his upper arm.  Yikes!  They did give him a couple of shots, so he didn't feel it crack back into place.  The Young man is today in a bit of pain!