7 months and 4 days

...before we had to hit an urgent care center. :)

Yesterday right when I got to school to pick the boys up, Zhenya fell on the playground (on the grass, and not off of any equipment--he just slipped). His arm was hurting him a lot but I'm not one to make frantic runs to the ER unless someone's deathly ill, so we went home. I wanted to watch it and see if it was just bruised or if he really needed to see the doctor. I did a few tests with him and he was able to move his fingers and rotate his forearm, but he wouldn't bend or straighten his arm at all independently. When Mark got home, he evaluated Zhenya a little more and then we voted to take him to an urgent care center. We were certain it wasn't a serious break, but we were concerned that if he slept on it wrong with it unprotected that he could damage something more. We headed to a brand new urgent care center that just opened up not too far from our house. It's so brand new, there were no people there besides us and the staff! :) So we had no wait and they were able to get xrays right away. The decision on the xrays came back inconclusive, so they put a half-cast/splint on Zhenya's arm and sent him home with instructions to see an orthopedic surgeon as soon as possible.

Zhenya being our melodramatic (read: whiny) one, it was a long afternoon and evening yesterday. He's convinced that because his arm is hurt that nothing else on his body works either. LOL I've had to be a pretty mean mama and I've made him sit down, stand up, and walk on his own. I did help him put his shirt on and buttoned it for him this morning. ;)

Tomorrow Mark is adding Zhenya to his list of errands, which currently include taking Dima to OT then back to school, renewing our license plates (this is a really painful process around here), and having lunch with a friend. He's going to have a very busy day, and he'll have two boys with him for a good part of it!

Edited Tuesday to add: Mark was able to get Zhenya in to see an orthopedic surgeon while Dima was in OT. His arm is broken (by his elbow) and he now has an arm-length orange cast (he got to choose the color himself). :) When I talked to Mark, Zhenya was trying to decide if he wanted to go back to school with Dima or stay with Mark for the rest of the day. If he's smart, he'll pick school. He's not going to have much fun running lots of errands all day! He'll have the cast for 3 weeks provided everything is healing up correctly.