It was no muscle spasm. After a brief meeting with his doctor at Bloorview, we whisked Jon to Sick Kids’ Emergency, where X-rays have revealed a huge fracture.

Here’s the deal: remember his last operation? Well, the hardware they installed has drifted down as he grew, and the shock of that sudden leg bump has caused the blade plate, originally in the femoral neck, to fracture Jon’s femur.

They’ll be doing emergency surgery sometime tomorrow, and it sounds as if they are still deciding on the best option, given that he bears weight on it (some kids don’t, and I guess that changes the equation). We don’t know what we’re in for, except that it will be the rest of the summer convalescing. And that he’ll be in much discomfort.

Poor Jon. It must have been excrutiating, and here we were saying it should be improving.

How did Children’s in B.C. blow the diagnosis? Maybe the angle of the x-ray, maybe the fact that in some kids a fracture isn’t immediately apparent, maybe that they had nothing to compare it to. I don’t understand.

We’ll need to get a social network going. Please feel free to visit, ’cause we’ll be here!

Laura is in Emerg overnight with Jon, I returned the car home and will return in the morning. We’ll be in The Room tomorrow.

Late-breaking note: Why was Jon always pointing to his banged knee as the source of pain? Because hip pain often radiates to the knee! Now you know (well, now we know). Apparently this is common knowledge in medicine.