Well, had to be a first for him sometime. My son was rollerblading in gym class on Thursday and he tripped and fell. It was my day off but I had to go into the town I work for which is 25 miles from my house. Get a call at 2:35 from the nurse saying that he fell and needs to get some x-rays. At this time he was still in the rollerblade, as they couldn't get it off of him. Called my wife, who works 2 minutes away from the school at a doctor's office which does x-rays. When she got there, they helped get him in the car and one of the maintenance workers was able to get the rollerblade off him and my wife brought him to the Dr's office.
After about a 40 minute drive, as I was stuck in long lines of traffic, I made it to the doctor's office. They had one x-ray done and the image was on the display and I could clearly see that both his Tibia and Fibula were broken. Had to load him in the truck and bring him to the Orthopedic office 15 miles south. Luckily I have an F-150 with the Supercrew cab, as I was able to fold up both the rear seats and made him as comfortable as possible on the floor of the cab. Several Novocain shots later, they had it set and in a cast. Get him home and in the house and him and I were up to 5 in the morning, as he was in so much pain. Oxycodone just wasn't helping.
Today was rough, but later in the day, he finally got some relief as the doctors advised to increase the Oxy to 10 mg instead of the 5 they started him with, and the swelling started to go down some. I still need to adjust his leg on the pillows, but he will have none of it. We tried a couple times today to readjust his leg on the pillows, to get it up higher, but he starts yelling before I even touch the cast. Hopefully tomorrow we can get him situated better.
It's going to be a long 6 weeks or so. We were planning a trip to Disneyworld for him and we were set to leave on the 30th of January, but at this time, I think I am going to need to cancel as he might still be in the cast, although we would probably be able to bypass the lines with him being in it, that is, if they would let him on the rides with the cast.