For all of you who are about to play an innocent game of dodgeball....please reconsider!!! Josh was playing in his company's dodgeball tournament last Thursday when he broke his left arm in 2 places. He was simply throwing the ball trying to get out as many opponents as possible and the torsion and force of the throw sent electrifying pain up his arm. He walked off the court and knew something was very wrong with his arm. After a trip to the instacare, he learned that his left humerus had a horizontal fracture and a spiral fracture below it. The X-ray was unbelievable. The bone was diagonally severed for about 4 inches, the bottom completely detached from the top of the bone. It was the worst break I've ever seen. Even the doctors couldn't believe he received this injury from throwing a ball. So then we rushed to an Orthopaedic doctor that could see him on such short notice (also happened to be Pioneer Valley). They finally gave him pain medicine, oh, 3 hours after the accident, and took X-ray after X-ray without much success of a good picture. Josh was put in a splint and lots of ace bandages and told it should be fine to heal on its own. 
Well, after a long and hard night Thursday we started to think we should get a second opinion. Josh can feel the bone moving around in his arm at the slightest movement and it burns and aches and throbs all at the same time. He was in so much pain and I felt helpless. All I could do was sit and watch him suffer. It was a horrible feeling.
Another trip to the doctors (we saw a specialist and a surgeon yesterday) and the verdict is : He needs surgery. He will get a plate and screws in his arm to stabilize the bone and help him heal faster bright and early Wednesday morning.
If you are reading this, please keep Josh in your prayers.
4 comments:
Wow! That is crazy! I liked how you said it's hard for you to watch him be in pain, but now you know how he felt when you were in labor :) We will definitely keep Josh in our prayers, keep us posted!!
I can't believe you are being such a wimp. When I tore up my knee I kept playing right through the game...well, at least till I got to the other end of the floor and fell down. We are watching and praying for your quick recovery.
Oh my gosh! We hope that everything went okay this morning. Keep up posted.
Ive just been searching for people with the same injury as myself. I broke my humerus (spiral fracture) in two places almost a yr ago. I was playing dogeball and heard a crack as i was throwing and my arm went numb and turned into spagetti noodle lol. Anyways - interesting to see this injury happened to someone else. Hope you have a speedy recovery. Im still recoverring from the plate put in my arm but keep working on physio and strenghtening it. Thnx for your story!
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