Broken collarbone

Right at the end of the 3rd period, against a really good hockey team, Uxbridge, Nathan was getting reading to stop an opponent.  While marking his position, somehow him and his teammate were skating toward the same spot.  At first daddy thought they were working together to try to intercept the puck.  But then, somehow, Nathan and his teammate both didn't see each other, ended up crashing into each other.  Nathan fell on the ice, and his teammate landed on him

Nathan stayed down for a while.  But quite quickly he was able to get himself up and skated to the bench.  Daddy noticed that Nathan was not able to move his right arm at all, and he was suspecting a dislocated shoulder.  The game went on, but the coach was still talking to Nathan.  Finally, the game ended and the coach helped Nathan off the ice, and they have decided to call an ambulance because the pain would not go away.

Thank you for all the teammates and parents who helped.  One parents drove Victor's car to the hospital while daddy went with Nathan on the ambulance.  Daddy said that Nathan was such a brave boy and he was able to keep himself together quiet well throughout the whole time.

At first when it happened, Nathan was crying and was breath radically.  But soon he was able to gain composure and was able to control his own breathing and his pain became more manageable and he stopped crying very quickly.  (He later on told me that he was thinking of how the human body is and that if he tries to breath only expanding his stomach and not rising his chest too much, he should be able to help with the pain.  Good boy!)  Then he was able to tell daddy that he probably did not have a concussion because he was able to remember every little detail of the injury and that he was conscious the whole time.

Thanks God for the fact that they were in such a small town that the hospital was like right there and there were no one there that they were in and out of the hospital in under an hour.  The ER were pretty layback about the whole injury, which at first got us worry.  But then we think clearly that if they are this casual about this type of injury, it really means that it's no big deal.

Comment from ER:
-  Use a sling to support his arm to make him more comfortable
-  Take painkiller if needed
-  It doesn't matter if the collarbone heal nicely because it doesn't really matter

EM......of course it doesn't sit well with parents, and so we played some Doctor Google and researched a bit, which is quite consistent with what the dr was saying.  So as long as we avoid contact sport and let him rest, and make sure he start moving his arm as soon as his arm heal, then he should be ok.

The greatest thing is that Nathan can always see the brighter side of things.  He was quite excited about using his sling as a pocket which he stuffed his underswear in it so that he doesn't need to hold it using his hand.  "I might as well make use of it".

He was also super excited about all the teammate who dropped by the hospital and paid him a visit.  He was fascinated with the fact that the nurse was starting to get stress out that his whole team would should up.

Just pray that he recovers quickly, with little pain, and that he is able to have the patience for not be able to be active for 6 weeks.  (Oh my my active boy....)