On Monday, August 25th, Lynar mentioned to me that he noticed Jordan was not putting pressure on his right leg when Lynar would try to stand him up on his lap. I was busy running around of course and kind of blew it off since Jordan had been happy and when he was born he wouldn't straighten out that leg for a couple months. Lyndee had also said that she pulled his legs down a little hard when she put him in his jumper toy because they were stuck. Tuesday was another busy day, Jaxon was fussy and most of my attention was on Jaxon. Jordan was happy playing on the floor. Again, Lynar mentioned the same thing when he got home from work. I shrugged it off and thought that maybe his hip was a little out of socket since Jordan had been happy moving around the floor that day. That night he was a little fussy in the middle of the night and we had to hold him, but he had had ear infections so I thought his ear was bugging him. On Wednesday during the day Jordan was very happy and again played well on the floor while I had to hold Jaxon a big portion of the day. Wednesday I did call the chiropractor to see if she could get Jordan in to check out why he wasn't putting pressure on his leg, but she was out for the day and so I scheduled something for Thursday since he was happy. By Wednesday night Jordan was starting to get more fussy and it was an awful night. I started to worry more about his leg since anytime I layed him down he cried. I had to hold him most of the night upright. I had a busy morning on Thursday. Katelyn had a portion of her tooth fall off and it was hurting her (it was a molar that came in with a defect and the dentist had been watching it). I had to get her into the dentist first thing in the morning for a filling so that is what we did at 8am. I tried to get Jordan into the chiropractor earlier, but she couldn't see him until 11:30 or so. When I took him in, I told her I thought his hip may be out and she checked the placement and adjusted a few things and he was not happy. He still would not put pressure on it. For the next couple of hours I was trying to get ahold of his pediatrician to see if we could get him in or where to take him. I did not want to spend the day in the ER. I ended up going to the walk in clinic we typically go to as a back up. The doctor looked at him and said she thought it was his leg, not his hip. They did x-rays and they came back that his femur was broken with a small fracture just above the knee on the back side. Since this was such a weird spot, the radiologist told the Dr that she had to call Child Protective Services on us. This Dr was so nervous to tell me that she was required to call and that I would probably be getting a call from them. I figured this would happen when they told me it was broken and it took 45 min to come back. The Dr. had been on the phone with multiple people about his leg. The funny thing is that the nurses and x-ray tech saw that he was happy and didn't even cry when they did anything. The only time he cried was when we held him down to splint his leg. No one could believe that he was such a happy baby with a broken leg. That is why I didn't think it was anything too serious.
I had arrived at the clinic at 2:30 and got out of there at 5:30. Babies had been fussy by the time we left and we were all hungry. I had to pick Lyndee up from volleyball practice and we stopped for some dinner. I arrived home around 6:30 and by 7:00, 2 police officers and a child protective service investigator was at our house. They were there until a little after 9 interviewing us and they interviewed the kids individually. Nothing worse than being accused of being a negligent abusive parent. They had to ask all the kids if they felt safe, and if they had ever been hurt or had bruises and where they did feel safe and who they felt safe around and if they had ever been touched in an inappropriate way. They grilled me on why I did not take Jordan in sooner and kept bringing up that surely with 6 kids I must loose my temper and it must be frustrating and hard and that how can I handle 6 kids. Talk about feeling violated in every way possible. Lynar had to take Lyndee and Katelyn to piano lessons right before they showed up and since they were not home the police asked where they went to school and said they would talk to them at school the next day. I put my foot down and told them that if they wanted to talk to my girls they would wait for 15 min and interview them at home. They did not need to open an investigation at their school. I made Lynar leave the lessons early and bring them home to be interviewed. Lyndee was so good. She told them how we prayed as a family and how good our home was. She told them how she had pulled hard on Jordan's leg and that was probably how it broke. No one could remember a time when he really cried hard. Joseph later admitted that he stepped on Jordan's leg. Joseph was much nicer to the twins after being interviewed by 2 poiceofficers.
The next day I had to go to the Orthopedic doctor and he was a jerk. He was one of the people that told the other dr office to call CPS. I was not a happy person with him either. He didn't even know the situation and wanted me reported because of the break. Jordan got a green cast and was a happy baby again the whole time until he was held down to get the cast. The cast did not slow him down one bit. He had it on for 2 weeks and 4 days and it was all healed up. Seemed like forever to have the cast on. One positive thing about Jordan having the cast was that before the cast, Joseph couldn't tell the difference between his brothers, after the cast he is now able to tell who is who. We did have to separate the twins into their own cribs so that Jordan would not hit Jaxon with the big heavy cast and cause another injury. Jordan was almost crawling with the cast by the time he got it off.
I had a hard time taking my eyes off the babies for weeks after this incident. I was so cautious with everything and if I'm a little over protective now, it's because I've already got a red flag on my "record". I never want to have CPS be called on me again. It was one of the worst experiences of my life!!!
