We've been busy at Cardon's Children's Hospital lately... Xander spent 2 nights there... two days ago...
He was playing on the trampoline with his cousin Conner, and they were playing Superman. He landed on his arm wrong, and broke his Humerus Bone... it was as supra-condylar fracture - clear across the bone and pushed off to the wrong side. At first Cody and I thought it was just out of place, so he went to Phoenix Children's Urgent Care, where they took some x-rays and then determined to ship him to Cardon's Emergency Center via ambulance... luckily they gave him morphine, so he wasn't in much pain. Once at Cardon's they took more x-rays, and determined he would need surgery, and would be admitted. He was given a room, and awaited the next morning for his surgery from Dr. Gregory Hrasky. The surgery went really well. They put 3 pins in his elbow to hold the two bones together, put a cast on, and he was sent to the recovery room. Once they could finally wake him up (by using a cool rag) we were able to go in and try to talk to him. Then we spent the rest of the day in his room watching movies and him sleep most of the day while we were thinking we would be able to go home that night. The surgeon came in and spoke with us later that afternoon, and said he would like Xander to spend another night in the hospital because he was still really swollen in his hand-and they wanted to make sure that would go down more before releasing him. So Cody spent another night in the hospital while I went home to sleep with the girls... the next morning, we found out we could go home :) He's been such a trooper, and all the nurses and staff were amazing and super friendly. For such bad circumstances, it was a great experience! We left and went to CVS to pick up his prescriptions (one for pain and the other for itchiness-Hydrocodone and Hydroxyzine)... Xander has been so tough throughout this whole process. He never screamed... he was SO BRAVE!!!! (and he LOVED being able to order his own meals to come to his room)
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