The Bone Is Not Broken

I really need to write about my adventures of last week.  But I wanted to briefly stop by to tell you about our adventures of today.

On Saturday Nathanael and Hannah were at a birthday party (along with their Mom, my beautiful wife), and Nathanael was playing on one of those big inflatable thingmes.  Another kid apparently thought that Nathanael was just a part of the inflatable thingme, because he jumped right on top of Nathanael.

Nathanael was in a lot of pain – his leg in particular.  He refused to walk on it at all that night, and all the next day.  And he had some trouble sleeping.

Since it’s rather complicated to get answers on something like that on a Sunday, we waited until the less complicated day.

Well, I was rather sick on the complicated day (alright, I really should have been in bed all day).  Nathanael was still not walking on his sore leg.  So off we went to the doctor in the morning.

Dr. Lettuce (el Doctor Lechuga) said he didn’t think it was broken, but it needed to be checked out.  So off we went to the lab in Ixtapaluca to get pictures taken of Nathanael’s bones.

Parking being hard to find, I carried Nathanael quite some way to the lab.  Then we were informed that they couldn’t do that kind of thing in Ixtapaluca.

So off we went to Chalco.

Traffic was atrocious.  We drove around in Chalco, through the market and crowds of people, finally making it to the lab.

I’m sorry, they told us.  We can’t give you the results until tomorrow.

Well, my son’s in pain – and the doctor wanted to see him again today!

Well, we can mark it urgent, if you pay.  Oh, you’ll have to pay.

Well, you’ll have to pay three dollars and change extra.

Fine then – could have told us that at the beginning!

So we did the x-ray, I carried Nathanael back to the car (wasn’t sure if I was going to make it), went home to grab food (I slept – remember, I’m pretty sick here.  Poor Shari is doing all the driving!)  Traffic was terrific again.

Back we went to the lab to get the x-ray, then back to the doctor.

No, it’s not broken!  Just some trauma around the joint.

Off to the pharmacy for the obligatory meds.

More traffic.  By now it’s starting to get dark, and we’re thinking about having cena (last meal of the day) and getting the kids to bed.

Nathanael is gently walking on his leg for the first time since Saturday evening.  Hopefully he’ll be feeling a lot better in a few days, and maybe with an anti-inflammatory he won’t be up a lot in the night.

Another Monday in the life of the Cottrills – two cities, two labs, one doctor — now I’m going to eat cena.