Arm Update #1

Wednesday Ben had his first appointment with Dr Latz at Children's Mercy. He is the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Sports Medicine section and he is Ben's primary doctor for the next 6 weeks. Ben's appointment started with x-rays to check the progress being made. Then we met with Dr Latz and he is concerned about how close one of the fractures is to Ben's elbow. If the bones are not perfectly matched up when they heal then there can actually be permanent damage to Ben's arm. As it sits right now the bones are off by 15 degrees. Which isn't horrible but it may lead to Ben having to have his fracture reset again which Dr Latz said would be quite painful. He wanted to add a wrap around the plaster cast to ensure its stability. Ben wanted purple and I knew Vince would have a fit if he came back from his work trip and saw a K-Sate Wildcat cast so then he chose black and there was no way I was letting him get an MU cast. So then he chose brown-who picks brown as a cast color??? I also vetoed that and finally talked him into blue! He did get to choose between Royals blue or Jayhawk blue-and he chose Jayhawk blue! Sadly all the cool art work on his plaster cast got covered up but I guess now we have a new blank canvas to decorate! As of now our up coming beach vaca is up in the air. We are set to leave October 9-13 but we aren't sure how it will go with an almost 3 year old at a beachfront resort with a cast that can't get wet or get sand in it. We are going to see how his appointment next Wednesday goes and make our decision then.