Cody's Broken Arms

O.K.  so this is the story.  We were at a wonderful beach camp out in South Carlsbad State park.  we had a awesome day at the beach we heeded to the water at like 9:00 A.M. and spent the whole day there.  Buck took both boys out to surf and then they boogie boarded and swam and hung out with friends until almost 5:00 P.M.  

That is when things went wrong.  Buck and I were making dinner (really yummy pizza in the dutch oven)  Cody headed out to skate board and Justin was playing some card games with some friends.   next thing I know Our friend Kelly ran over to our campsite and says cody crashed BAD.   we ran to check him and we knew right away that his right arm was broken.  Buck and I undid the Camper Van so he could take Cody to the hospital.  We tried to have him hold his right arm with his left but he said that hurt to much. 

This is the x-ray of the right arm and yes it was defiantly broken.  Buck texted and let us know that actually both arms were broken.  Justin and I packed up the rest of camp and waited for Buck to come and pick us up.

So Buck came and got us and we headed home.  the next morning we had to take him in to Balboa Hospital to get casts.  He was in lots of pain.  In the picture above you can see he also had a pretty scraped up leg. 

Getting the car was not fun at all.  I really should have stayed home and let Buck take him in but I didn't. The had to really Reduce the arms so it was very painful for the little guy.  

With another arm still to go we thought about putting him to sleep so he wouldn't be in so much pain but the area who take care of this were short handed and could not fit him in.  So instead they got him some perkiest and then he was a little loopy but it was still a lot of pain.

See he was feeling O.K. here but it wore off pretty quick.

He pretty much got to sit and watch t.v. for a whole week.  keeping his arms elevated at all times.

Sadly we had a planned trip to Disney land a week after the casts were put on that could not be changed.  So we put poor cody in a wheel chair and went any way.

We still had lots of fun there.  How could you not it is Disneyland.

One week in Cody had to get new X- Rays to check on progress and sadly the break in his right arm had shifted some and so they had to reposition it and put a new cast on that goes all the way up to his armpit.
We retured to the Hospital yesterday for new X-Rays  and everything looked good.  So for now there will be no surgery, They want to see us next week to check one more time for slippage.
 We are thankful for all of the prayers we received and we are so glad that Cody will not have to have surgery.
This is all in the life of a boy.