FOOSH

In early October, the kids' had a half day off from school and were enjoying some down time at home. After several hours of being cooped up inside, I sent Connor outside to play in order to get him off of his phone for a while. A short time later, he rang the doorbell and came inside very upset and holding his left wrist gingerly. Apparently, he had been playing tackle football (a big no-no!) at our local park and he went to the ground hard, falling on his wrist. As he was describing his injury, he told us he heard a crack when he fell on it. UGH! With those words, I knew we were likely dealing with some type of bone break. We made him an ice pack and I took him to the local emergency room at Texas Children's Hospital.

We had to wait a while for Connor to be assessed, but eventually they took him back for an x-ray of his wrist. Then we waited even longer for the doctor to call us back and tell us the results. As we feared but suspected, Connor had broken his left wrist. But in true Connor fashion, he managed to break BOTH bones of his wrist. The good news was that the break wasn't near his growth plate. He was put into a splint and shoulder brace, and they made us an appointment later in the week to visit the orthopedist for a hard cast.

A couple of days later, it was time for Connor to get his hard cast. He visited the sports clinic and was able to choose the color of his cast - red. The male nurse was super efficient and had the cast on and ready in a matter of minutes.

As we talked more with the nurse, he asked Connor how he injured his wrist. After Connor explained, the nurse was telling us that this type of wrist injury is super common. So common, in fact, that nurses and doctors in emergency rooms only have to say one word to describe the injury: FOOSH. We looked at him curiously and he told us what it meant: Falling On Out-Stretched Hand -- FOOSH! Since then, the word "foosh" has become a regular part of our conversations, ha!