Quick update...

Asher got the initial cast off this morning. All the healing looks good but isn't quite totally "done." Here's one of the x-rays. You can see that the new bone growth is looking good, particularly along the left sides of both bones...

(Note: Nathan tells me that my earlier post did not actually include a "before" and "after" x-ray. The "after" was just from a different angle (the side) such that it looked "straight" but was still taken before the arm was set. This is an actual "after" x-ray. It was taken this morning. We're told that it's totally normal for kids' bones to still look crooked like this and that, because they're kids, the bones will naturally straighten themselves out as they grow. It's much more critical that bones be set more precisely for adults because our bones are old and not as capable of this, lol.)

Anyhow. He is now the proud owner of a below-the-elbow camouflage cast. It's mostly all good. While we were at the doctor's and his arm was bare, it looked pretty good (and not as crooked as I thought it might) but felt weird to him. ;) I took the opportunity to apply some lotion to help with the itching. He's saving the old cast to add to the little red one he has from when he was two, though these won't be as cute since they have to be cut off. :) (He slipped that little red one right off before so it's still whole.)

(Ash refused to look when Nathan was taking the picture, lol.) In any case, both Asher and I feel safer for having a cast still. (Four weeks just didn't feel long enough to me, lol.) The only downside is that he was partially hoping that he'd be done now and able to resume other activities rather than now having to wait another month. But. At least he can now bend and twist his arm. :) Technically, he got the go ahead to go back to karate (so long as we left out the sparring part) but we'll wait and see how he feels about that. He's still a bit tentative right now but I'm sure that will be short-lived. The boy is obviously on the mend and feeling better than he did for the first part of December. I caught him jumping (leaping!) off the couch again earlier this week. Oy.