NotFortyTwo

Last night was quite an adventure for us. We had friends over for dinner and beer brewing, but things didn't go exactly as planned. The kids went outside to play after dinner and we were getting desert ready. Allan came walking up to the back door with a "Something happened" look on his face, opened the door, walked in, and started to tell us about how he hurt his arm on the swing. He didn't get very far before we noticed the arm was the wrong shape...

We went to the hospital in McKinney, TX, first and they brought us in pretty quickly. Unfortunately, that hospital wasn't equipped to fix the arm. So, Children's Medical Center of Dallas sent up an ambulance to pick Allan up, as they are the only hospital in the area with the expertise. The ambulance team was outstanding, and although we were very concerned about how this was going, they really made us feel he was being moved to a first quality facility.

This all started about 7:45pm. By 11:45:pm we were at Children's. They looked Allan over once he arrived, but there was an emergency surgery, so the doctor who could help Allan was extremely backed up. About 4am they set his arm and we got home around 6am.

We're tired, but Allan's arm is back in the right shape, and they are very confident it will be just like new.

Amazingly, Allan didn't cry or scream through this process, and was very cooperative with the doctors. I'm not sure I could have done so well.