Again, I'm playing in MamaKats Writer's Workshop. One of her prompts was to detail an ER moment. Since we were just there yesterday, or at least at the InstaCare, I figured that was a pretty good match.

So, why were we in the InstaCare yesterday? Blake has managed to break a bone - again. If you will remember, he broke several bones in his foot the day before school started in August. Now, it isn't even Thanksgiving and he's managed to break his thumb. Fortunately, it's just a hairline fracture, but it's still another break. The sad thing, is that he broke it a week ago. Yes, say it with me Moms, a WEEK ago. I kept telling him it was just a sprain. To be fair, even the doctor thought that, until he saw the X-ray.

I think I was just in a state of denial over it because this may be a signal of something more serious. He's not an especially clumsy kid and he isn't necessarily a huge daredevil, although he is a little bit. But really the incidents that have caused three broken bones in as many years (he also broke his wrist on his first visit to the skate park), aren't necessarily ones that should have ended in broken bones.

They are talking about the possibility of a genetic disease, something that causes naturally thinner, more brittle bones. It's scary. It's incurable (now that's a scary word).

The only thing you can do is to be careful. No contact sports, no motorcycles (actually I'm OK with that one), no skate parks, probably no snowboarding, no daredevil maneuvers of any kind. Fortunately, he's not especially athletically inclined, but it's pretty harsh to tell an 11 year old boy that he's not going to be able to do all that stuff, maybe for the rest of his life.

And even if we do all that, there are still likely to be more breaks ahead, just from everyday things. A slip on the ice, a fall off a bike, a car accident. More casts, crutches, and who knows what? Broken bones are something you can't really negotiate with. Whatever the orthopedist says you have to do, you have to do. It breaks my heart.

So, all we can do is to try and keep positive. I don't know if I really want to get the testing for it. If there's nothing they can do medically, I don't really want to know any more about it. We have been lucky that he has made it this far without any very serious injuries and we'll just have to hope that this trend continues and if he does have breaks, they will be minor ones. Postive thinking has always worked well for me and I plan to continue it for as long as I can manage it and be thankful for a mostly healthy, happy, adorable son.







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