SchlegelRock

Apparently Scott couldn’t handle Truman getting all the attention so he went and broke his wrist Friday night.  He was mountain biking at Saratoga Gap and took a nasty tumble.  The whole left side of his body is pretty badly scraped, cut and bruised.

Right now he is just in a splint until later today when he goes to the Orthopedic department today to see what they want to do with him.  I guess that’s what the ER does.  Splint it up and make an appointment with Orthopedics during the week.  Makes me feel really fortunate that Truman got seen so quickly.

So the funniest thing (and tragic) happened when the nurse in the ER asked Scott if he wanted some pain meds.  Being Scott he made some kind of joke about it which put her on high alert that he was a druggie just there to get pills.  So they gave him one pill while he was there but wouldn’t send him home with any.  That’s the funny part, the tragic part is that he has been in quite a bit of pain and regular old Tylenol is not cutting it.  So I don’t care how funny you are don’t joke around about addictive substances in the hospital.  No pretend bomb threats at the airport, no joking around about pain killers at the ER.

I’ll let you know what the doc says when we get more information.  The ER doc said it could be minor and he’ll be left in a splint or they could do surgery and put pins in.  She didn’t know.  Our modest opinion is that he’ll just need a cast.  But what do we know?

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