November 14, 2009

At about 4:00 pm yesterday we get a phone call our son fell off the monkey bars at daycare. My wife picks him up from daycare and gets to Northeast Medical Center by 5:00 pm and in an ER room within 10 minutes. After seeing the nurse, doctor and x-rays, it was determined at 7:00 pm that he needed to go to Scottish Rite to be looked at by a pediatric orthopedic doctor. At 8:30 pm, at our request, we loaded our son in our mini van and headed toward Scottish Rite. We walked into the Scottish Rite ER at 9:40 pm and were triaged and in a room by 10:00 pm. After a couple of visits from the nurses, doctors and surgeon, it was determined he would have surgery at 8:00 am the next morning. We did have to wait for an overnight room until about 2:00 am, but that was not a problem.

The break was on the Humerus just above the elbow and it was a clean break in which one part went in between some of the mussels and almost was a compound fracture – ouch.

My questions are:

How long would have Obama care taken? It was not a life critical situation.

Would he have still received Morphine for the pain or would they have given Tylenol because they were low on money?

After the surgery and cast, would they have given him some pain medication and antibiotics and sent him on the way instead of keeping him for anther 12 – 24 hours for observations?