Dirty arm

Yay! The cast is off!

The orthopedic office was jam-packed with people when we went Friday. They said it was because of the Labor Day holiday. It's a regular orthopedic office during the day. Then in the evening, it's an orthopedic urgent care. So a good bit of the crowd was urgent care patients from the long weekend getting re-checks.

So after a terribly long wait, we finally went back.

It wasn't very long until a tech came in with a saw and went to work.

The thing looked like a big vacuum cleaner, except instead of a sucking hose on the end, there was a small circular blade. I don't see how she didn't go all the way through the cast. It made me nervous.

And then, I got a look at his rusty, crusty arm! And Biscuit made a nasty face when he saw it. There wasn't a sink in the room, like you'd find at regular doctors' offices.

 
So that tech left, and a few minutes later, someone from x-ray came in and took our boy away.

Don't buy into this sad face. He was totally putting on!

Another put-on face. I guess he was showing his full range of emotions about the situation.

After the appointment, we took Biscuit to a build-your-own pizza place he had been asking to go to. Biscuit said, "C'mon, Dad," and headed immediately to the bathroom to wash his arm. You could still see his tan line, but no more rusty crusty.

The doctor gave him a brace to wear for about three weeks. He wants him to wear it constantly at school, but when he gets home, he's supposed to take it off and start using it.

I asked the doctor about any restrictions and after talking some to Biscuit during the appointment, he said, "I think he's going to put way more restrictions on himself that I would put on him."

And it's true. Biscuit has been a little afraid to get back to using it.

The other night, he started writing his books down on his reading log for school, and I noticed that he was writing with his left hand.

"Why are you using your left hand?" I asked him.

"What?" he said and looked down like he didn't even realize he was using it. "Oh, um, habit, I guess."

But we'll get him straightened out soon enough.