"Ain't Nothing Gonna Break My Stride"

When I was in high school in TN our school cafeteria had a juke box. It only played 3 songs. That Tracy Chapman song, "Give me one reason to stay here. . .", the Pinnochio read a long story book, complete with the ding when it was time to turn the page, and that Michael Wilder song from the 80s, "Aint nothing gonna break my stride, ain't nothing gonna pull me down, oh no, I've gotta to keep on movin'. . .". I feel like the last song would be an appropriate theme song for our dear son Spencer's life! Last year he had a double hernia surgery and was riding his bike 2 hours after we got home. The Doctor said he would be down for a few days. No such results. He also had a sweet bike crash that we thought might be worthy of an ER visit--ice cream at McDonald's did the trick. At his last few "well" check-ups I have been surprised to discover he had ear infections in one or both ears. And the trend continued with a fall off of the monkey bars in our backyard yesterday afternoon. He was upset for just a minute and then went about the rest of the night acting fine. We just brushed off the dirt, dried the tears and ate dinner. So this morning when he woke up and was using his left arm to life his right arm, I asked him if it hurt. He said yes, and I moved it around and he didn't really complain. So we had Chris look at it and he said that we better take him in to get an x-ray just to be safe. I gave him some IB profin and we went to the Pediatrician. When we got there I kept telling Spencer he needed to at least act like his arm hurt. Inside I was a little bit paranoid at the reaction I was going to get for being an over anxious parent for bringing in a perfectly healthy boy. The Dr. came in, rotated the heck out of his arm and hand, and S did not complain at all!! He pointed to where it hurt and the Dr. said since it was a pretty high fall, they would x-ray it. Good thing they did because it was broken!!! That boy has the highest pain tolerance of anyone I have ever met!! So anyways, they sent us to an orthapedist who said he only needed to be in a cast for 2 1/2 weeks because it's a pretty minor, and common, break for an active 4 year old. So we got the little blue cast on it and he still managed to run all over at Cub Scouts tonight, jump on the trampoline, and climb all over everything we own one handed! That boy is amazing I tell ya! He was also very excited that our friends the Bradfords brought him some chocolate pretzel "flipz" to remind him to be careful. So far I don't think he is heeding the warning--like I said, he needs a theme song!