Anyone had a hairline wrist fracture?

[2boys2danes]

Our boys are at church camp this week and the camp nurse called and said they had taken W to the ER because they thought he had broken his arm. The ER sent him back to camp and said it was not broken but they wrapped it well, ice on it etc. About an hour later the ER called the camp nurse and said they had sent the xray to a larger hospital that actually had a radiologist to read it and there is a small hairline fracture on the wrist.

I will be glad to lay eyes on the kid tomorrow afternoon when they return and see it......I pray its not bad because they are supposed to leave in a week with my ILs for a scuba trip to Belize -- which will suck with a broken wrist I would think....

anyone have any words of advice or had this happen to them? was it put in a cast? How long to recover etc?


TIA!

[agnes]

I fractured my wrists all the time when I was a kid. I was a klutz. Jump off a bunk bed? Break my wrist. Run down the street? Break my wrist.

All I remember was constantly wearing a wrist brace.

[2boys2danes]

May 31, 2013 22:07:46 GMT -5 agnes said:

I fractured my wrists all the time when I was a kid. I was a klutz. Jump off a bunk bed? Break my wrist. Run down the street? Break my wrist.

All I remember was constantly wearing a wrist brace.

LOL  He has broken both arms and had surgery and pins....he is our bull in the china shop for sure

[agnes]

Wait, I said "was a klutz." That's should have been I am a klutz. Except I haven't broken any bones as an adult. Just sprained an ankle or two and plenty of bruises.

[pooh8402]

I had a hairline fracture that then twisted. I had surgery on it to reduce the bone then a cast for 8 weeks.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using proboards

[tdk2]

Yes. I suggest a real cast. I had a removable one which was convenient but I took it off wayyyyy too much and didnt let it heal well. It still hurts because I was impatient. It hurt but was functional. I can just imagine a kid having an even harder time keeping a removable one on.

[lime]

I had one as a kid. I think my cast was on for 6 weeks or so. No issues after that.

Hope he heals quickly.

[angelaa73]

when I was 6. In a cast a month or so. can pop it on command now. kids heal fast! worst part was the cast up to my freaking armpit for a wrist fracture. it ITCHED. when they sawed it off, my arm was 1/2 the size of my other arm, shriveled, and covered in pen marks from all the pens and crap I shoved down it hahahh

[angelaa73]

May 31, 2013 23:18:02 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

I had two when I was a kid.
The first time, my mom thought it was a sprain and didn't take me to the doctor for three weeks.
Both times it was put in a cast for about 6 weeks. It healed fine. After the cast came off, it was in a splint for 2-3 weeks.

It was on the same hand, sometimes my wrist is sensitive/sore for no reason and I think it's from the fracture. In certain kinds of weather and stuff.

MOM SHAME!

[Deleted]

I couldn't be casted at first because it was too swollen. Then I was in a cast for 6 weeks.
It hurt, but its fine now 2 years out.

[angelaa73]

adam just broke his arm (elbow) last night. He is in a splint until the swelling goes down and they will put his cast on Wed.

MY BABY!!!

OUR BABIES!!

hope your lil guy gets well soon