Big Bear part 2

Okay so the weekend was great, until Sunday afternoon...

We all were sledding down this long and steep drive way that was covered with snow and ice. At the bottom there was a huge heap of soft snow where the snow plow had stopped plowing, which made for a great jump. Depending on how many people were on the sled the sled generally went up and over the heap at the bottom and kept going until the soft snow stopped them.

Rachel's friend Hayden decided to go down on his snowboard, he fell a few times but ended up doing pretty well!
James thought he'd like to try being 16 again and snow board down it also. I caught him in action. He was going really fast, had great form and didn't fall at all, until...let the pictures tell the story...
This is how our weekend ended! He pretended it was just a torn muscle or something, but I knew better. After 30 minutes, using the snowboard to get him up, making a scarf sling and stopping to take some group pictures we headed back to the cabin to pack up. James sat by the heater freezing, but sweating up a storm, while we all packed up around him. I had layed out clean dry clothes for everyone,so we changed, packed all our stuff up, I loaded the car and we headed down the mountain.
My Papa met us at our house and we left the kids with him (Wesley came with us) while we went to Redlands Community ER. They got us in pretty fast. They gave him a shot for pain and took some X-rays. He nearly passed out from the pain during the X-rays, but managed to walk back to the hallway where we sat for an hour waiting to hear the results. The Nydam girls all came to relieve my Papa and keep the kids until we came home.
The nurse came and told us the Dr would be coming to talk to us "Well, it isn't dislocated, it's broken!" Just what we wanted to hear. He broke his humerus, the upper arm bone, at the top ball part where it connects to the collar bone. It is broken in 3 places!
The Dr. said he was waiting to hear from the bone Dr. to see about surgery. James little trek down the hill on the snowboard didn't seem so fun after all. Anyway, they gave him another shot of morphine, a prescription for more drugs, a shoulder immobilizer and a sling and let us come home. We have to see the Orthopedic surgeon in the morning. We're going to sleep on the couches downstairs and see if we can't get some sleep. Wish us luck!