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[flea]

Casper and mr. flea are at the ER right now, getting a splint for her broken left thumb. She fell off the monkey bars at after school at maybe 2:30 (early release day) and seemed to have jammed her thumb, and it swelled up immediately. They called me, I called mr. flea who happily was not in the field this week. He fetched Casper and took her home, and our neighbor who's an ER nurse and mother had a look, and recommended we get an x-ray. mr. flea called the pediatrician, who I guess said to go to the ER, since that was where heard from then next. The ER did an x-ray and there is a small break at the base of the thumb, which may involve the growth plate, so they are splinting it for now and will give us a referral to an orthopedist. (My brother has one thumb that is very much shorter than the other; although the family joke is he stunted it playing too many video games, I think he actually broke it skateboarding and nobody realized it was broken, and the growth plate must have been affected. So, we want Casper to have symmetrical thumbs.)

Drama of the moment is mr. flea is at the ER with no cell and no clear idea of when they'll be done. Dillo is still at school which closes one hour from now. mr. flea has orders to call me if he's not walking out the door of the building at 5:30, and I will call Dillo's school and call around our neighbors to see if anyone can go get him.

Poor bunnies. I am not worried for anyone's longterm health, but Casper must be in some pain and a little scared, and mr. flea is obviously worried and stressed out, and Dillo is languishing at school in ignorance of the drama. Poor Casper just got a second crown on Monday, too, so it's like the week of health woes.

Comments

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor noodle! That sounds painful. At least it was caught right away, though.

[fatoudust.livejournal.com]

Aww, woes.

Well, courage~ma to Casper and calm~ma to poor Mr. flea. And logistics~ma to you and the Dillo!

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Yikes! For the record, I am pretty sure that Brother broke his thumb skateboarding and then declined to tell anybody for a while due to the humiliation of being injured. I say this on basis of the gigantic, grody scrape across his ribs he showed me, when he was 15-16, and he showed it to me by way of asking whether I could take care of it or did he have to bring in The Authorities (Mother) who might still theoretically take away his skateboard.

Also, his thumb is not actually all that much shorter; it is just his thumbnail that is short.

I do recall spraining fingers during my childhood, I think twice, and wearing splints that were cool right up until they became very boring and annoying. However, broken bones are a new one to me. Make sure Casper gets to keep her x-ray!

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

The whole last joint of the short thumb is about half the size of the regular thumb's. It's really noticeable if you put them together. And yeah, I think he didn't tell anyone, which is why he never got medical care. (I was in college, obvs, if you were 15, so I wasn't actually on hand.)

IIRC Brother was the only one of us who ever occasioned an ER visit (fell down the concrete basement steps in Lexington and cut his head, first of all, never mind later bike incidents and the car accident). I fell out of trees but didn't hurt myself, and lost 2 (already sorta loose) teeth trying to swing on a rope by my teeth, and I think I got a mild concussion trying to penny-drop off the neighbor's swingset and landing on my head. I also jumped up from my bed, slipped on a pile of paper, and bent my my elbow backwards when I was 17, and I got an x-ray but it was just sprained, and we didn't go to the ER or anything.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Oog, I'm sorry.