Noah's First X-ray

Noah is 100% boy. There is nothing that he fears. He climbs. He jumps. He somersaults. He wrestles. He seeks out adrenaline rushes and he is two. He is also a bit clumsy. He gets so excited, that he forgets to pay attention to what he is doing and ends up falling. He runs so fast that he trips himself.

We've known for a long time that we would become good friends with the radiologist. We just didn't think it would happen so fast. Tuesday night last week Noah kept us up. He was whining in his bed and would not go to sleep. Erin noticed that every so often he would jerk. She also explained that his whine was not a stubborn, "I don't want to go to sleep whine," rather it was a "I am hurting whine." That coupled with the jerking concerned her, so she packed him in the van and headed to our local emergency room.

En route she called the pediatric "on call" doctor for the practice our children go to. The "on call" doctor advised her to not go directly to the ER but to see if the car ride put him to sleep. She also advised that, if we did decide to take him to the ER, then to take him to a different hospital because it is the only one in town that has a pediatric ER unit. That hospital, though, is on a rough side of town...not a place to drive to at 2:30 AM. So we decided to wait.

When "we got up" (how do you get up when you were never really asleep?) the next morning, in the light of day Noah's problem became clear. His big toe on his right foot was black and blue and curled up and swollen. We thought he had broken his toe.

We were able to get him seen at the pediatrician and she confirmed that he had a "serious injury," most likely caused by something heavy falling on his foot. She sent Erin and Noah to the imaging center to have an x-ray. It came back negative for breakage.

We still don't know what fell on his foot. His foot was fine at bath time. He never screamed out between bath and bed when he and Mihaela were playing. We found nothing heavy out of place that could have fallen him. We will never know what caused it.

After spending a few days icing and elevating his foot (when we could...it is very hard to ice and elevate the foot of two-year old, active boy), he was feeling much better and back to his normal self.