Ty's Accident

I'm a little late posting this but it has been a long week so far.  And this...is going to be a long post!

Sunday afternoon, Ty was outside riding his bike.  He wanted to ride over to his friend's house who lives in our neighborhood.  He has rode his bike over there many times.  It's not far from our house, takes about three minutes to get there on bike.

He left our house around noon.  At 12:40 a stranger came knocking on our door holding Ty like a baby.  He was crying (Ty, not the nice stranger).  Apparently, the family who brought Ty home had come home from church and saw Ty sitting by his bike.  They didn't think anything of it and went inside to change their clothes for lunch.  When they came outside a good ten minutes later, they saw Ty trying to crawl home.  That is when they knew something was wrong and they brought him to us.

At first we couldn't see anything physically wrong with him.  Ty was crying so hard and we couldn't get what happened out of him.  All we knew was he was in a lot of pain.  After a few minutes, he finally calmed him down enough to tell the story.

Ty had been riding his bike on the side walk.  He said he was riding pretty fast when all the sudden he was thrown off his bike with severe pain in his knee.  After a lot of talking we discovered that Ty had actually been knocked off his bike by a trailer hitch.  There was a truck in it's driveway with a trailer hitch sticking pretty far out the back.  Ty noticed the truck but not the hitch and was stopped by his knee hitting the hitch at full force.

No skin was broken but there was starting to be severe swelling.  I loaded the screaming boy up in the car and headed to the ER.  Test confirmed nothing was broken but he is still in a lot of pain.  He can not put any weight on his left knee what so ever and he screams if you come close to it.  He has now sat on my couch for almost 80 hours.  I carry him to the bathroom when he needs to go and that is the only time he gets off the couch.  Yesterday, Cathy came over and together we stripped him down and gave him a bath while he screamed, at the top of his lungs, the whole time.  It's not easy seeing him in this much pain.  If you know him, you know it's really hard for him to sit still longer than a few minutes.  So the fact he is bound to the couch says a lot.

Tomorrow he has an appointment with his pediatrician.  Hopefully they will refer him out somewhere where more tests can be run.  The swelling as yet to go down and the pain, it seems, is getting worse.  I can't help but keep picturing the poor guy crawling home.  He is in such pain and there is nothing I can do for him.

Our daily routine...

Notice the swelling in his left knee