Urgent Care

I got one of those calls from school. When ever a call comes from school it is usually not good. Trev was on the line. "I did something to my wrist , Mom. Can you come get me?".

"What did you do?"

"In football practice, some one fell on it. I can't feel my thumb and I can barely move my fingers.Iit hurts really bad."

" I am on my way."

Before I leave the house, I call the doctor's office to see if I can get an appointment. It is 4:10 pm. The earliest Trev can be seen is 6:45pm. I take it. Two hours is still better than the ER option.

When I pick up Trevor, I can see his wrist is swollen and tender. It doesn't look bad, but it hurts. I tell the coach that is with him, I will have it looked at tonight. We head home to wait the two hours for our appointment at urgent care. I give Trev an ice pack and four ibeprophen for the pain and anti inflamitory benifits.

We get to the doctor's office right at 6:45 and have to wait another fifteen minutes in the lobby. Once in the room it is another 10 minutes. The nurse takes Trev's weight and temperature and blood pressure. 144 pounds, 98.4, and 110 over 58. That low blood pressure is a genetic trait. The doctor comes in and manipulates Trevor's wrist. He tells Trev to relax and not to pull away. Once he is done he tells us it is just a sprain. Had Trevor broken his wrist or a bone in his hand,  he would have been screaming in pain with what the doctor had just done. He said only an x-ray would show for sure, but he could save us some money because it is pretty much a sprain.

Wrap the wrist for practice after taking a day or two off, otherwise use the the hand normally. The new rule is not to let the muscles atrophy or stiffen up, no wrapping, use the limb as  normally as you can.

Good news, as that means Trev wont miss the football camp coming up in two weeks, right after school gets out. We left the doctor's office at 7:20 pm. A nurse wrapped Trev's wrist in an ace bandage just for the evening.  We spent less than five minutes with the doctor. That left us time to catch the end of a local baseball game we had been invited to watch.

One of our friends was throwing the first pitch for the game. We had missed seeing that but arrived in time for the sixth inning. I ordered hamburger and pop for Trev for dinner. Our seats were in a special area,  where the food was brought to us. We didn't have to stand in line. After the game there were opening season fire works. We could see guys with flares, used to light the mortars, through the shear fence lining. A few fireworks didn't launch high enough and finished burning after they came back down to the ground.  That was exciting, seeing the people behind  the curtain dive for safety, wondering if a spark might hit the other fireworks waiting to launch. They were surprisingly great fireworks, close up and big. It wasn't quite dark enough, but the game had ended probably more quickly than anticipated.

It was a lovely way to end a potentially rough day. Trevor did not have a broken wrist as he thought he might and would be fine in a few days. It will cost me $200 when the bill comes for urgent care, but best to be safe and know for sure than to end up missing school later. If I hadn't taken Trevor, the wrist would probably have been broken.