The Clint Splint

Last Friday, Wes and I were both called to Clint's school to pick him up since he "wasn't feeling well."  When we got there, we found him in the office with an ice pack, white as a ghost, and very dazed.  Turns out he had gotten hit in the hand in PE while playing dodgeball.  When he tried to alert his teacher, he got queasy and actually fainted - twice!!  We loaded him up and took him straight to Emergency where they x-rayed his hand and found a broken index finger.  He got a temporary splint for the weekend, and then he got this nice plastic splint with the totally 80's hot pink straps.  He will wear this for 2 or 3 weeks, and he'll start physical therapy next week.  Clint was actually pretty excited to have broken a bone, and he's quite proud of his battle wound!  The realities are hitting him this week though.  It's pretty tough to do school work without a working right hand!  We are trying to help him as much as we can at home, and his teachers have been very understanding.  The important thing is to get him healed properly.  That's an important finger and we don't want to lose any range of motion.  We're glad he hasn't had a lot of pain, and that it wasn't any worse!