Poor BubTar

Yesterday, I spent the day shopping for/attending my sister's lingerie shower. While I was gone, BubTar was spending the day with his cousins at my parent's house. The kids were playing in the backyard with my dad, laughing, swinging, running like children do while he watched and tooled around the yard. BubTar was in the swing and his cousin E was twisting him around and around, so when released he would spin like mad. She let go and everything went wrong. We aren't exactly sure what happened, but somehow BubTar's arm and hand were completely twisted up into the rope, over his head, and in reverse position. The only thing I can think is that he reached up to stop the rope from unwinding quickly and was instantly caught by the rapidly winding rope. He claims his hand went up "all by itself" and then he doesn't know what happened. My parents were wholly terrified as they attempted to disentangle him. It took both of him and evidently the way he was hanging was quiet disturbing. There was a plethora of screaming. My mother has unnecessarily apologized 5,241 times since yesterday. My father keeps trying to describe exactly how he was strung up. They are getting rid of the swing. They are both suffering a bit of PTSD.

Regardless of exactly how it happened, the result is, I have a boy with a still swollen hand more than 24 hours post-injury and an even more swollen thumb with limited range of motion. It doesn't hurt unless it is moved or touched, and he does have functionality of most of his hand and even the first joint in his thumb. But the swelling persists and the tenderness persists and the inability to make a fist persists, so we are headed to the pediatrician tomorrow to determine if any sort of damage was sustained. I think he got very lucky, because the way my dad describes it, it sounds like there was an excellent chance of a dislocated shoulder or cracked wrist, so a swollen hand seems to be a fair price, really. But we will see what the doctor has to say and find out if we need to do anything further for the munchkin and his slightly gimpy hand. Now would be a lovely time to have insurance, wouldn't it?

Not the best photo, but you can see that his five year old thumb is the same size as my adult thumb. I'd need a side by side of his hands to show the rest of the swelling, though.

But he still feels good enough to make crazy eyes at the camera, which is a very good sign.

PS: Sunday Song post below, if you're interested. :)

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ETA: We saw the pediatrician. Although it is still tender and swollen, she doesn't think anything is broken, but she gave us a script for x-rays in case the swelling isn't gone in a couple days.