Take Your Son to the ER Day

Was anyone aware that Sunday, April 10th was "Take your son to the ER day"? It was if you lived in my house. I got up from my Sunday nap early to tell daddy that I felt like shit and was going back to bed. Shane hears my voice and comes limping down the hallway to tell me that he hurt is foot a little bit ago.  When I say "You did?!?" daddy asks me, "You mean you didn't hear the crying and screaming?" Gee, I must have turned off my mommy ears - bad mommy. So I take a look at Shane's foot and it is significantly swollen on the top compared to the other foot. Then Shane says, "my foot doesn't hurt, the bone right here does" and he points to the bone that comes down from the little piggy that went to the market. The story that I could finally dicipher was that Kassidy was chasing him down the hallway and he fell and hurt is foot. OK? Having had a fractured foot at the age of 13 and remembering the swelling I figured it was better to be safe then sorry and off to the ER we go. Kassidy is begging me if she can go (like I need that stress added) so I tell her she will be too bored and that I will bring McDonalds home afterwards if she stays home with daddy - thank goodness for MC D's.  Shane and I head out to the childrens hospital here in Reno and on the way into town I start thinking - ok, when I was 5 I had a cast on my arm, when Aunty Shell was 5 she had one on her foot for a broken toe so I guess I better start preparing the boy for a cast. I don't think he actually understood what I was saying because I got no reaction at all about a cast. We find a childrens wheelchair at the ER and Shane figured out how to operate it within 30 seconds. The doctor comes in and the conversation with Shane goes like this:

dr: What is your name?
Shane (s): Shane
dr: How old are you?
s: 5
dr: What grade are you in?
s: Kindergarten
dr: Got any girlfriends?
s: NOOOOOOO
dr: Got any boyfriends - ok I am kidding, he didn't ask
dr: What happened?
s: I hurt my foot
dr: Did you fall off of a barstool (he really did say this!)?
s: NOOOOOOOOOOO
dr: What do you want to be when you grow up?
s: I don't know yet (This shows that Shane is not autistic because Kassidy would have said "an adult")
dr: If you become a doctor, you get to wear your pajamas to work and you get to stay up every night.
s: (with a look of confusion on his face) Oookaaay!?

Then the doc has xrays taken - just to be on the safe side - and two hours later we get to see the actual xrays of Shanes foot per Shanes request. No broken bones or fractures so it is just a sprain. The doctor even told him that they wouldn't need to cut it off - wasn't that special. Doc instructions: no crutches because then I would probably be back to the ER with Shane having a head injury (quite the comedian), just Motrin but no beer while on the Mortin (ok, I will try to get him to cut back) and rest. Shane actually stayed put that night and when he did move he crawled like a baby. The swelling went down around Wednesday and he still limps from time to time if he steps down on his foot wrong but I think he is gonna survive.

And for those wandering minds - yes, we got McDonalds on the way home! And when I asked Shane if his foot smiled in the picture, he said no but his bones did - just thought you might want to know.