Post archive for ‘Health’
Sean Broke His Foot
Monday morning during PE Class, Sean rolled his foot on the basketball court while playing capture the flag. It was hurting him when I picked him up from school, but he was still able to walk on it. I sent him to football practice, but after about a 1/2 hour the coach noticed that he was limping way too much. We thought it was a severe bruise at that point, so we treated it by icing it down.
When we didn’t see any improvement after nearly 48 hours, so we decided to take him in for an X-Ray. Sure enough, it was a small bone chip on the side of his foot. They gave us some crutches and we then took a trip over to the Orthopedic Doctor to get him fitted with a walking boot.
We see the orthopedic doctor again in three … READ MORE
Tooth Fairy Bonanza
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Sean. He has been in tooth fairy hell. Not because he has been having his teeth fall out, but because of the opposite.
Sean has been a wee bit upset of late because Savannah has been losing a lot of her baby teeth. Sean doesn’t like the fact that she has lost way more teeth than he has and he is almost two years older. Over the last couple of weeks, that has changed, but not exactly in the manner he had hoped for.
He recently went to the see orthodontist for one of his regular checkup visits. When the orthodontist took some x-rays, the he became concerned because Sean’s baby teeth appeared to be still firmly rooted and his permanent teeth were still trying to come in and … READ MORE
