Jinxed

In my last post, I wrote about Cade's friend with broken bones and playing football. As I was finishing the post, Cade and Brett were leaving for Cade's football game. At that game, Cade broke his arm. I jinxed him, I am afraid :( I had left the game because it was delayed 45 minutes for lightning so I took Maddi and Emma to the fall festival in our neighborhood for a bit before it started raining and then I took Maddi to her friends to sleepover. Well, during the time I was gone, Cade fell and caused another player to fall on him and he broke his arm. I think it broke because of the way he fell, not because someone fell on him. Not sure. Cade ran off the field after the play and then the trainer called Brett down and said he needed to take Cade for xrays. Sure enough it was buckle fracture of the radius. Here is the big man after his visit to Acute Kids in his splint.

Luckily the kids were out of school Monday for Columbus day so I got Cade in to the orthopedic doctor. Apparently a buckle fracture is a good kind of fracture to have. 3 weeks in a cast and the next Saturday he was able to go back to football. Cade got his cast and his friend Mitchell got his cast off the next day. Here they are in matching casts before Mitchell got his off.

Well, after about a week in his cast, Cade started saying it was getting loose around his hand. The next day it was cracked and the next day it was completely broke. Who breaks their cast? Cade does! Ugh! Here he is getting his old cast off.

1 1/2 weeks in one cast and 1 1/2 weeks to go in his new cast.

Let's hope this new cast lasts and let's hope this is our last broken bone for a while.