Cassius and the ER

Sunday night, when I went in to tuck Cassius in, he complained a bit of pain in his hip. I thought he was a little groggy with sleep and he had a boo boo of some kind, but two hours later, when he finally drifted off to sleep, I was a little worried. My colleague Lisa had told me about her fiancé having a blood clot in his leg, and I wondered if something similar might be happening with Cassius. Despite all the bandaids we placed on his knee, he was still in pain and couldn't walk or even move.

I took Maceo to school and dropped him off, and then Cassius and I drove to the pediatricians' for a quick check up. When they saw he couldn't walk, they told us to go to the ER!

Cassius waiting in the ER waiting room

Luckily, it was early in the morning, 7:45, and rather empty. We were seen pretty quickly and whisked into the back. Nurses gave Cassius some children's motrin, a robe, and a pediatrician gave him an examination.

Nice robe! He wore it all day.

They decided he needed a sonogram of his hips

He enjoyed that and the man administering it seemed to really like Cassius, too.

After that, we waited a while to get x-rays.

And then Cassius very bravely and with fortitude, had a lot of blood drawn and an IV put into his hand in case they decided they needed more later!

They supplied us with turkey sandwiches, apple juice, goldfish, and a graham cracker...

and coloring pages!

In the end, the diagnosis is transient synovitis, and by the next day, Cassius was able to gingerly and slowly walk on the flat floor.

It was a long day...