Snow Caves & Broken Bones

We went up to my parents a few weekends ago. They boys were in heaven with all the snow. All their cousins came over and they spent the evening digging tunnels through the piles of snow.

It wasn't all fun and games though, Spencer got hurt later that night.
My Mom has one of those basketball shooting games. A couple of the smaller cousins crawled into it while Spencer was playing and it collapsed on his hand. Of course, we weren't able to determine what had happened until hours later when he had calmed down enough to tell us.

We heard the screaming, but with Spencer you never know how serious it is. After about 30 minutes of non stop screaming, we decided to take him in. My brother, a pre-med student, has access to the x-rays at the hospital, so he and Jason took him in. As it turned out, he had 2 broken fingers. A doctor there made a temporary splint for him until we could get home and have it seen.

After getting through the initial shock of it, he's done surprisingly well. In fact it doesn't seem to bother him much at all. He did have one moment of panic the other night when he found some of his cuticle peeling back. He was convinced that all the skin was peeling off of his broken fingers. He screamed for about twenty minutes about how scared he was. Eventually, I was able to convince him that it was normal and he's been fine ever since.