Dislocated Knee Cap

On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Nathan and the older three kids headed off to Young Mens and Womens. While Brooklyn and I enjoyed our time home together. I just put Brooklyn down to bed when I got a phone call from Nathan telling me that I needed to go pick up Salem because he had dislocated his knee. My first thought was not a very good one why don't you just pop it back in and we'll go to the Dr in the morning so we don't have to pay for ER. Bad mom I know. First of all that is not what you do your suppose to leave it and get it x-rayed so they can see if you have any broken bones or problems. My second thought to myself was I just want to stay in my warm home and why couldn't Nathan just bring him home. Needless to say I bucked up and headed to the church. When I got to the church I thought they would bring him right out but no I waited and waited for him to come out, then the thought occurred to me that it is probably worse then their making it sound because they didn't want Salem to worry or over hear what they were saying and go into shock anymore then he already is.

Make shift splint so that he wouldn't be able to move his knee.

The Scouts got to practice their first aide skills to night for sure, or at least the leaders did.

Very scary thing to see him after they worked so hard to pop it back into place to see him lye there shaking. He was on crutches for a month and finally got to the physical therapist and they put him in a walking brace and not wearing the brace at all in less then two weeks. We did end up going to a specialist at Primary Children's Hospital and they are surprised that it has taken him 12+ years to dislocate his knee because where the knee cap sits is really shallow. Let's hope that we don't have  more in the future.