For you that don't know him, Dustin isn't afraid to do or try anything. I am always saying "Don't do that, your going to break your arm or leg".

Well he did! But would you believe, he was playing with his basket ball in the driveway and tripped and landed on his arm. He was all by himself. Probably one of calmest things he has done in ages. And he ends up getting hurt.

We didn't realize it was broken because he did this Thursday night about 6:30 p.m. and we didn't take him to the doctor until 11:00 a.m. Friday morning. He even went to school until 10:30. His class was going to watch a Alice in wonderland play at the High School this morning and he has been talking about it for weeks. So when he still wanted to go to school we let him go. Of course we didn't realize his arm was broken. We had put ice on it right away and later I wrapped it with an ACE bandage. That is the way he went to school.

He broke a bone around the growth plate. Because it is an important place, he has to go back next week (which is common) to see if it is healing okay. They weren't real satisfied on how it looked after they set it. He may still end up going into surgery to break it and set it again.

Lynn and I felt so bad that we didn't get him in to the hospital last night, but he was being so good about it. It's like when do you take them in and when don't you. We sure goofed on this decision. At least we took him today though. The doctor said we didn't do any damage by waiting until today.

He is having more pain tonight now that they set it than he did last night. He has medicine for the pain tonight.