On November 23rd, sometime around 5:30pm, Colin and I were outside visiting with Colin's friend Jesse while Archer sat patiently on the bottom step eating a cracker. Soon Ellen, Kris, and Eliza arrived to deliver a wonderful loaf of pumpkin bread before heading out of town. As we were all standing in a circle around Archer he stood up, grabbed the railing as we had told him to over and over again, and began his six inch descent to solid ground. Somewhere between railing and cement Archer went toppling off of the step. He instantly burst into a cry unlike any we had ever heard from him (which is when I should have known something was terribly wrong...instead I thought he was just terrified). I scooped him up relieved that he hadn't hit his head, and decided he was simply scared from the fall. Unfortunately the crying didn't stop, nor did it deescalate. I took Archer inside and while nursing him searched every inch of him for even the smallest scratch that could be causing his cry, but nothing! I think started to move all of his joints thinking perhaps he hurt deeper than the surface, but once again, nothing! Perplexed we gave him some motrin and dipped him into a warm, soothing, bubble bath. This seemed to calm him down quickly, we fed him dinner in the bath tub, and then cuddled into dreamland.
The next morning is when the injury became blarringly apparent. Archer refused to bear any weight on his right leg and when he did by accident, would become hysterical again. He had full range of motion and no bruising or swelling, but not bearing any weight seemed to be a tell tale sign of a fracture. I placed a call to our pediatrician and anxiously waited for him to call back....for hours. It wasn't until I called back around 4:30pm then they then told me he was out for the day and one of the other peds would be called me back shortly. FINALLY I got the phone call and the sweetest lady put my mind at ease saying she didn't see a need to do anything about it that night and that they would refer us to a specialist in the morning. Now...that wasn't quite good enough so we decided to take Archer to the after hours clinic in town. They did Xrays, confirmed a "buckle break" and wanted to cast him. We decided to opt out of the cast at the time (he was crawling everywhere and by this point not even attempting to bear weight on that leg) and take the xrays to our ped the next day.
Needless to say, Archer is still crawling around and recovering. Never did I imagine my sweet little 14 month old would fracture his leg---but I suppose anything is possible!!! He really has been quite the trooper and doesn't complain at all, just crawls around about his business. We talked with Dr. Rao (our ped) yesterday and he said in another 7-10 days we will need to get another set of xrays to check the healing.
That's it for now. Buckle broken baby boy!
-The Kimble
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