Today was a very interesting day. It was a pretty good and peaceful day for most of it. Arek wasn’t feeling that good so he stayed home from school. He was pretty happy and we enjoyed spending time with him. He was his active self. We enjoyed trying to play ball with him. That boy has got an arm! It was a great beginning to a great day!
Later, right before dinner, he jumped off the table in the Living Room and hurt his foot a little bit. He cried, but not very long. We didn’t really notice anything really wrong at the time. When dinner was done, we told Arek to come into eat. He just sat and cried by the gate. Usually he would hop right over the gate and run in the kitchen to eat. This time was different. I had to go and pick him up and carry him to his chair. I though that was a little strange. I still didn’t think anything of it.
After we were all done eating, we noticed that Arek just wanted to stay seated in his chair. If you know Autism, you know that just does not happen. I tried asking him what was wrong but it’s hard with Autism and him not being able to tell me what was wrong. My husband than remembered that he had gotten hurt earlier so we looked at his foot again. This time we noticed it was quite swollen. My husband tried to put him down to stand but Arek refused to. We could tell he was in pain.
We decided to take him to the hospital. Not to be funny but we were a little happy that it was his foot hurting because he wouldn’t be running all over the hospital like a mad man. He was loud with some of his screams but at least he wasn’t running all over throwing things. You know how Autism can be. We actually got in pretty fast. He had to get x-rays. That was a little tough but we got it done. He covered his ears with some of the sounds he heard but other than that he was an angel. They told us that nothing was broken that they could see. It’s sometimes tough to see in children that young. They said that he had sprained it. They wrapped his foot and put a special shoe on. He is supposed to keep it on for a couple of days. We’ll see if that will happen. He has to have a follow up appointment on Monday.
We are so thankful that his foot is not broken. It was a scary thought. I’m glad that things turned out all right. Autism is so scary because they have higher pain tolerance than us. It broke my heart that he couldn’t tell us what was wrong either. I’m so glad that we figured it out. The poor kid is limping around though and it hurts him. I wish I could take it away for him. He mostly just laid around until he fell asleep after the hospital. Hopefully he’ll walk on it a little more tomorrow. We’ll let you know how that goes. Thanks for listening to me babble.
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