November 5, 2013 - The Bar Stool and the Broken Femur

I was in the kitchen, making dinner at the stove and JT was climbing on the bar stools at the counter. I had JUST gotten him down and told him NO. I heard a thud and then REAL crying. Crying like someone was hurt. I saw JT on the floor, ran to pick him up and felt crunching and clicking near his upper thigh/hip when I picked him up. His leg hung there. I tried to put him down to see if he would stand and he screamed. I drove him to the hospital and it began...the IV, the morphine injections, the x-ray after x-ray. The waiting. We were at the local ER for two hours before they sent us via ambulance to the nearest Children's hospital. At this point, we knew he had broken his femur from the knee area to close to the hip. It was the entire bone and it spiraled around the front to the back. We think he must of gotten his foot stuck in the rung of the stool that he fell off. I am not sure how else he would have broken it so badly. There were parts of the bone that were starting to fragment off of the break. Surgery was on the table, but we wouldn't know until we got to Children's.