Lincoln Breaks His Arm

This day started out great. Sheehan took the boys to see the Lego Movie in the movie theater then they came home and played next door at their cousins house. The Haub cousins had a mid-height bunk bed and had put both mattresses on the floor. From what we could gather they were jumping off of the bunk bed onto the mattress on the floor. Lincoln overshot the mattress and broke his arm. He told Auntie Julianne that he hurt his arm but wasn't crying. A few minutes later she noticed his arm was extremely swollen and he was turning pale. She walked him over to our house through our shared gate and with one look at his dangling arm I knew it was broken. I yelled down to Sheehan working in the basement that we need to take Lincoln to the Emergency Room. I believe that Julianne took Rae and Vance until my Mom or Alyssa could come and pick them up. Fortunately we have a hospital within five minutes of our house so we didn't have to drive far. 

Linc was in shock and after they administered pain meds he fell asleep. 

He was in a lot of pain and exhausted from going in to shock. They kept us there in the emergency room for hours. Looking back I think they were trying to make sure we didn't abuse him. He refused to talk (which wasn't abnormal for him at the time) and we didn't really know what happened. Nobody had seen the break happen and he wouldn't talk. We only figured out later that he had been jumping off the bed and overshot the mattress.

They finally sedated him to set his arm. It was really difficult and the ER Physician told us he would likely need to have pins put in his arm so his bones healed correctly.
They told us to not let him run around for 2 weeks until our follow-up appointment where they would determine if he needed pins placed in his arm.

To keep him sitting still we gave him a tablet and let him watch and play whatever he wanted. His preschool teacher, Ms. Sandy Thomson, came and visited him and brought him a stuffed animal.

His cousins and Gigi signed his cast. 

At his follow-up appointment with the orthopedic surgeon they looked over his x-rays and the surgeon consulted several doctors and determined to reset the break but without pins. His arm healed beautifully and the orthopedic surgeon now uses his x-rays from broken to healed as examples of how bad a break can be and how the body can heal so well.