Sunday Morning ER visit {Caleb}

Friday Caleb was pushed over during gym. He played in the snow Friday night and built a snowman. Then Saturday he woke up complaining about his leg. I half-heartedly sympathized and told him it would be fine after he got moving around. It didn't though, and by the end of the day he was not moving it at all. He tried to get in the bathtub, and couldn't. Ryan had to help him in and out. I slept by him, and he even woke in the night crying about how much it hurt.
Sunday morning I took him into the ER. He was so nervous. He was so afraid that they would make him take his pants off to look at his hip. He was sure that would be the most embarrassing thing ever to happen in his little life. After much assuring that I wouldn't leave his side and that if they truly did have to look at his hip they would make sure he was modest, I finally convinced him to go. But no worries, they never even looked at it with their eyes.

As we were sitting there waiting, the guy in the next room was talking with his doctor. It was so loud, it felt like we were in the room with him. Apparently this older gentleman couldn't urinate and was in a lot of pain. We heard the doctor say..."we are going to insert this catheter into your penis." Caleb's eyes got so big and he just turned white. I tried to explain to him in a quick anatomy lesson, as quietly as I could, all about the bladder and urethera, and how it could get blocked and what a catheter was and what they were going to do with the catheter. He calmed a little when he understood that this would help this poor man, but got even more alarmed when the doctor said he couldn't get the catheter in and they were going to put a camera up to see just what the constriction was.
I don't think I will ever forget the look on his face when he heard the doctor say that. I am sure that the visual for a little 10 year old boy of a camera going up there was traumatizing. So again I had to explain how tiny the camera was and how it would help the doctor. But he was directing the nurse in how to help, and the comments were quite descriptive. What a explicit lesson for such a little boy. The best part was that after they took his X-ray, they were wheeling him back to the exam "room" (three walls with a curtain) and we passed the guy.He had a massive bag of urine at the end of his bed. Caleb saw it and he said "Yeah, that was a lot of pee, that would really hurt!"

The diagnosis for him...He had no break that they could see, but were quite concerned with how much pain he was in. When the doctor pushed up on his knee Caleb flinched and immediately huge alligator tears formed on his cheeks. He was concerned that there may be a fracture in the growth plate that didn't show up and we have to follow up the end of the week with another X-ray. Here's hoping that nothing more serious than a deep bruise is wrong, and that we don't have to return for another lesson in urology!