Bike Accident

Last Sunday we were at some friends' house and they had a mountain bike with a trailer attached for kids. He and Craig thought it would be fun to take James in it. It was! James loved it and it was like a little ride for him. So after dinner James asked to go on the bike again! So Chad and Craig took him outside for a ride. Just as I walk outside and see Craig flying down the street Craig makes a turn to the left and then a turn back to the right and the trailer flips on its side! Luckily James had on a helmet and was buckled in but we think as a natural response of falling he put his hand out and he scrapped his whole left arm and two of his fingers were skinned. He lost half of his fingernail on one finger! As you could imagine it was quite traumatizing for all of us! This picture is four days after the fact. I have become a good nurse and I am getting better and better with wrapping them. The first day you would have thought he broke his whole hand the way we had it wrapped! Now it is just two small wraps on each finger! He is doing very well with it. I think kids do better than adults do with handicaps! He only complains when it is time to change the bandage because he doesn't like it off. Hopefully it will heal quickly and he won't have to wear the bandages for a long time!