In 2012, only a year
after I got healed up from my arm injury, I had another break in the
same arm, only this time much worse. At our last visit to the doctor
for the first break he said that I had the worst arm break of the
year at St. Johns hospital in Springfield. In September on labor day
weekend of 2012 we were at the annual Mule and Donkey Days at the
fairgrounds in Ozark. They had some timed events, of which one was
called the rescue race. The rider started at one end of the arena and
ran down to a barrel that another person was standing on, and as they
turned the barrel, the person jumped on behind the rider and you ran
beck to the other end of the arena. When I jumped onto the mule and
we started to run back, I lost hold of the saddle and fell backwards
off the mule. When I did, I landed on my arm behind my back and broke
the ulna just below the elbow. We hurried to the hospital, (this time
I wasn't in shock), and immediately went into the emergency room. The
doctor who was there looked at my arm and said to just put a cast on
it, of which we strongly disagreed. My dad asked and asked to do some
x-rays the right way and see what it needed, but they drug their feet
the whole way. Weeks later the doctor told us that the arm was healed
and was “just a funny looking fracture” when we saw the x-ray
each time. We went to go get a second opinion from the doctor who did
such a great job on my first injury, and he did some x-rays and a CT
scan. He told us that the bone was still broken, had not healed at
all, was pushing the radial bone out of socket, and had grew an extra
bone on top of the radial head because the bone was never aligned to
heal. He referred us to an orthopedic specialist, and that is were
the big story begins.
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