You're Not Supposed To Brake With Your Face!

Friday evening, Aaron was leaving his lab to go to a game night at the local game store. On his way down the very steep hill that is the UC-Berkeley Campus, his bike skidded out from under him and he tried to use his face as a brake. At first, he thought he was just scraped up badly, and thought his arm was just sprained. He insisted he was fine, and I took him home to rest.



This picture was taken today, so his scrapes have actually healed up a bit. They were pretty red and raw on Saturday. Thankfully, he was wearing his helmet, and so didn't sustain any serious head or neck damage. That's actually the part that got the least amount of damage.



By late Friday night, he was pretty sure he had broken something. He said he wasn't in bad enough pain to wake up the boys and drag them to the ER (it was 1 am at this point), and that we should plan on going in the morning. So we did. And yes, he had broken his wrist! He broke that small bone that pokes out on the outside of your wrist. It was a clean break and is in a very large splint for such a small crack on the x-ray. He is doing well and he's only had to take Advil when the pain flares up.

We went to see the doctor today, and she said his scrapes are healing fine and referred Aaron to an orthopedic physician for his check-ups on his wrist.

Aaron is otherwise fine, just frustrated trying to do everything with one hand. Thankfully, he's left-handed, because he broke his right wrist!