Jaxson Fractures Upper Arm/Shoulder

Yesterday, around lunchtime, I was answering a call from Cheri and putting pasta in bowls for the kids by the phone. All of the sudden, I heard a smack and chocolate chips went flying everywhere around me! There lay Jaxson, right behind me, on his stomach on the floor crying loudly. I quickly told Cheri I had to go, picked up Jaxson and hugged him. He cried and cried, left my arms to go the bedroom to find his Daddy. Dave jumped out of the shower and we took off Jax's shirt (which sent him into hysterics) and it was obvious that his right shoulder was injured as there was a huge ball forming over the blade.

Luckily, Cheri called again in that moment and said she was just minutes away and could take Austin and Taylor while we went to the ER. She and Steve had just happened to be on their way over to suprise us with their new jeep. We took Jaxson to the ER and learned several things. First, there was a good fracture in us upper Humus, next to the shoulder joint. Second, the area where he got the fracture has a huge cyst (which subsequently made the bone fracture more easily). We waited for the orthepedic surgeon to come in and talk about our options. He is sending the X-rays to Primary Children's Hospital for them to look at it since he only sees cases like this maybe once a year or so. From there, they'll decide if they want to go in and chip out the cyst and graph back in bone or what to do at this point. He told us not to freak out since it doesn't look like a spreading cancer but we'll know more next week. We'll keep everybody posted.

Jaxson- hurting most of the time, even with pain pills right now!

It is hard for him to sit...but he is so much pain when he tries to play with his left hand that he ends up howling and on the sofa chair!

Enjoying the pain pills at their height of numbness!