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Mar 29, 2020
5:50:40pm
byujdmba All-American
Looks like my son just broke his clavicle.
Probably shouldn't have been using his Sunday to long board around the neighborhood, but I'll let him figure out if there's a lesson there. There's an unnatural bump on the right collarbone close to where it connects at the top, but it's not a compound fracture. Our local orthopedic surgeon is busy right now, but can see my son tomorrow. We'll likely take him up on that. The alternative is the ER, and my son (20 but with bad lungs) is scared of going to an ER right now. Both the orthopedic surgeon and our GP have an X-ray in their office, so we can avoid the ER if we wait 12 hours. A couple questions for any docs, or people that stayed at a Holiday Inn recently:

1. Any reason not to give him ibuprofen for some pain management in the meantime?
2. Should we be trying to talk him into going to an ER? Doesn't seem prudent.
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