Mark's New Hardware - part 1

One of my boys had a little incident on the soccer field this last weekend. Playing soccer a little too hard. If Graham was a little bit older, you might automatically think of him. But nope, it's my other boy....good ol' Mark fell back oh his wrist on Sunday and broke it in all kinds of pieces. I'm sitting in the waiting room right now while Mark is getting "hardware" pinned into his bones to put them back together. Due to the fabulous capabilities of technology, you can see his x-rays right now.

Left shows how the "ball" in his wrist pushed back the radius bone (the side that his thumb is on)...the part that is pushed back is kind of fuzzy (on the right), and that's because of all of the little pieces that it's in. OUCH. You can see another view of it in the middle pic. And the one on the right shows where he broke off another piece of bone...you can see it on the very right (I think it's the ulna) - the part that is just hangin there off the rest of the big part. OUCH again. And of course this is his right hand that he does everything with! OUCH.

So as I write, Dr. Hurt (yes, that's his name) is putting plates and pins around these bones to put them back into one piece. He will have to wear a cast for 3 weeks and then will have to wear a brace and do some phyical therapy. Not fun times for Marky-man.

Post-surgery pics to follow....