Henry’s Broken Arm:

On July 11^th when henry woke up in the morning in his crib his arm was stuck through the rails.  Throughout the morning he wouldn’t use the arm and seemed to be in discomfort.  I called mike at work and had him come home so I could run henry out to the doctor’s office to be checked out.  Unfortunately Dr. Benardot wasn’t able to see us and we were stuck with another provider in the office who was horrible (DR. Mannis).  She thought he seemed fine but after insisting on a x-ray his arm turned out to be broken. 

So… our next stop was the ER.  We waited over an hour while everyone stood around and gave us dirty looks as if I had purposely broken my child’s arm.  He was given a temporary splint and we were told to follow up with the orthopedics office the next day.

The next morning at the orthopedics office we were told is was a “clean’ break, would heal fine, and that it didn’t even need a cast.  The put a new splint on because the one from the ER wasn’t done well.   We were sent home to follow up with them in 2 weeks.  

After returning home from our vacation the following Wednesday we had  a million message on our phone telling us we needed to go to a new pediatric orthopedic in south Burlington.  They had me freaking out till I could get ahold of someone the following day (since it was after closing hours when I got the messages). 

 Turns out our awful substitute doctor (Dr. Mannis) thought it would be a good idea to drive 3 hours with a small baby to get another opinion… we canceled the appointment.

Two weeks go by and we go in for another x-ray and follow up appoint

ment at the orthopedics.  We are told it is still completely broke, no new healing is seen, but since henry is using the arm it must not hurt him.  So, they take the splint off and say he’s fine.  They tell us to come back in 2 months for another x-ray just to make sure it has healed.  I am completely shocked and worried about the healing of the arm without any protection on it.

We are seeking a second opinion just to be sure.  We go an appointment at an orthopedics in Potsdam on august 10^th and he will also have another x-ray.