Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Broken Bones

My son broke his collarbone yesterday at daycare. I guess he was running through the kitchen there, tripped over his own feet, and ka-snap.

That's all it takes, apparently.

He will be fine (as a matter of fact, he seems perfectly ok with having a broken bone). So what do we, as parents, do to prevent constant, Olympic-level worrying? Quit our jobs and keep him home 24/7? Stay seriously medicated on Whocaresatal ™? Encase him in Lucite?

Make peace with the worry, you say? Yeah, we know – we knew there would be days like this before we got into the whole “having a kid” thing.

We were just hoping for something easier...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What small little bones. And he's such a trooper! Not a tear out of him until you pick him up which is painful.... Mom

Anonymous said...

well welcome to parenthood, i remember hunter tripping over a rug at daycare, and smashing his face on the corner of the bookshelf, man it takes a toll on u as a parent, but they grow up and do stupid stuff on their own, like sledding down the front hall stairs, or jumping from the top of a jungle gym, it scares u but u do get over it, all i can say is, im glad hes ok, but their is more to come bro

Agmorion the black said...

You remember that scene from Demolition Man with the car accident and the foam? Maybe we could recreate something like that using "That Great Stuff" from Home Depot or Lowes!

'Course I think it gets really hot as it expands but maybe I'm thinking of liquid->solid packing foam used in shipping departments.

But I imagine he'd get fussy after a few minutes immobilized. Maybe downright cranky!

SnowUrchin said...

@Agmorion

I would be more concerned with having my sinuses... and other openings... packed with the "stuff".