Excitment on the farm

In the previous post I mentioned that we arrived on the farm to some excitement. The story begins that Bruce and I were at the local grocery store when he gets a call from my sister (who was already at the farm) saying that my brother has broken his leg. We hurry out to the farm and were told that they believe that it is a compound fracture. (A compound fracture is when the bone breaks and pokes thru the skin) I refuse to go out and see Bill where he happens to be laying waiting on the ambulance. Only once the ambulance arrives and is there for a few minutes do I go see Bill. Luckily they have his leg covered so that I don't have to see any gore.

The ambulance leaves with him and Mom follows in her vehicle. They go to Sidney hospital where they take x-rays and confirm that it is a compound fracture. They page the orthopedic doctor of Mom's choice and they devise a game plan. Since this doctor has his base out of Grandview hospital, Mom makes the decision to head there. Luckily they did. When the interns and/or residents took him to surgery to flush the wound they decided to go ahead and insert the rod. Apparently the first rod they had was to short so the surgeon sent them back to the basement to get the longest rod they have...and the only long rod.

When I seen him on Sunday and Monday he was pretty grumpy because of the pain, but when I seen him last night, he was in a much better mood. That could be because he was trying to sucker his nieces & nephews out of some candy though! There is no cast on his leg and they told him to start putting weight on it right away. Then Bill decided to show me the surgery incision and it was pretty ugly. The doctor was not worried about scarring as there was no "finesse" involved with closing his wound up. Because Bill was up and about more yesterday, there was also a lot of swelling. Yuck! I am glad that isn't me.