365 Project: Yet another cast

2020-02-23T00:50:41-06:00February 23rd, 2020|365 Projects, 366 - 2020, Jonah, My Family|

Jonah in a long arm cast

It has been a very long couple of days.  Thursday, we went back to Dell Children’s Hospital for Jonah’s follow up appointment.  The purpose of that appointment was to remove the large long arm plaster cast and move him over to a short arm fiberglass cast.  We’ve had concerns about the fit of the cast throughout, but were assured repeatedly it was fine.  When we arrived they removed it, did an x-ray and the PA assured us we could move him in to a brace.  We were concerned because his arm is still very visibly fractured on the x-rays.  She really felt like the brace was going […]

365 Project: Is your arm all better?

2020-02-21T09:22:43-06:00February 21st, 2020|365 Projects, 366 - 2020, Jonah, My Family, Zachary|

photo of cast removal for broken arm

Jonah had his plaster cast removed yesterday.  And while his arm IS improving, what followed was a complete disaster of medical care that was anything but good or personalized.  10 years ago Taryn broke her forearm and we had a fantastic experience with Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin.  The care has drastically gone downhill since then and we are so relieved that we can go seek healthcare elsewhere.  Never again, Dell.

When his cast was removed we washed his arm and Z noticed Jonah kept rubbing and touching it.  He jumped up and ran his fingers across his arm for quite awhile and asked him if […]

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