A Trip to the ER

Thursday evening, we headed to a family birthday party.  10 minutes into the planned kick ball game, Jeremy was on the ground and in a lot of pain.  His arm was hurting him pretty bad, to the point where he told me he felt like he was going to faint.  When that feeling passed, we got him into the car and headed to the instacare.  1.5 hours later we were told that the morphine they gave him wasn't enough to be able to relax the muscles enough to put a dislocated shoulder back into place.  We had to go to the ER.

-Did I mention that we were babysitting 2 little kids?  Jeremy's family did offer to watch the kids for us before we headed out, but I knew that it was close to the time the dad would be picking up the 2 little kids, and Clara refused to stay behind.  After getting ready to drop off said kids, we found out that their father was running behind.  So all 3 kids (ages 4, 3, 1) all sat with us at the instacare. 

So we dropped all 3 kids off at our house with my Mom coming over to watch them on a very short notice.  I then drove Jeremy to the hospital where they had to knock him out before they could put his shoulder back in place.  It was a very interesting experience to watch.  I'm glad they told me that his body would still react to the pain, but that Jeremy wouldn't remember anything.  There were quite a few times where Jeremy sat up and looked right at the Dr.  That was the doctor's cue to give more meds, and Jeremy would relax and lay back down.  Jeremy was also moaning and groaning pretty good too.  After trying to get it back into place by moving the arm around, they finally had to pull is arm to dislocate his shoulder even more, and then put it back in place.  We finally got home just before 1 am!  It was a very long night.  But loaded up with Lortab, Jeremy was able to sleep until 3 in the afternoon the next day!
Jeremy's arm is still pretty sore, but that seems to be normal.  We have a follow up appointment with an orthopedist later on today to decide what needs to be done from here....
(For a few pics, see my picture blog.)