Poor Gabe broke his arm this summer at the Flint Family Reunion. The reunion was a blast and was held in Paradise at at Church owned property called Little Bear River Resort.
This place had little cabins with bunk beds for each family. As is typical with all kids Kelsi and Gabe ran to get the top bunks. The first night there they climbed up on their bunk beds and stayed for about 10 minutes and then decided they wanted the bottom beds. The next day after spending the day playing in the creek, playing football, frisbee, hiking and with Gabe raiding any DS's he could find they were pretty tuckered out so when they crawled into their top bunk, even after dad telling them it wasn't a good idea, they fell asleep by the time their heads hit the pillows. About 2 in the morning we hear Kelsi crawl down to the bottom bunk. Jeff gets up to check on Gabe and pushes him all the way to the wall. An hour later Gabe rolls out of his bed and must have woken up mid fall and tried to catch himself. He broke both bones in his forearm and they shifted down. His poor arm looked like a Z. So we ran to the ER and after 3 hours at the ER and a half an hour of jerking and setting the bones he was able to head out. The killer was when we were driving to the hospital and Gabe while sobbing looked up to Jeff and asked him why he didn't catch him. Broke our hearts.
Gabe had to wait about a week to get his hard cast on and he was so upset because it was also the week he started school. Luckily the orthopedic surgeon saw us at like 7 in the morning to get the cast on so he was able to make it to his first day of school and had all of his friends sign his cast.
He should get a short cast on tomorrow and then another 3 weeks before he is done. As long as he cooperates and I can keep of the tramp and his bike and everything else. The x ray last week didn't show a lot of re growth so hopefully he drank more milk this week and it is healing better!
