Our son fell a few feet off a ladder in Schenectady's Central Park and hit an exposed and protruding tree root. It severed his bone.
The hack surgeon had to place 3 pins in his arm.
My son on hard core narcotics in the slowest ER in the world, Ellis Hospital.
Because the quacking hack, Dr. Robert Cooley,
refused to put a hard cast on, T's falls caused his arm to become more misaligned. Today his arm is not straight, but it is more than not straight, it is obviously crooked.
It took me a year to be able to go back to the site where T fell; I took this picture. If he had fallen on just dirt he might have just gotten a minor injury, if he had fallen on mulch - he would have bounced back up- and he would be perfect today- mentally and physically.
The City of Schenectady has done nothing to improve the safety of the playground.
This event has had profound impacts upon our family. T's personality changed subtly after the fall- he is more likely to cry and be scared. His arm is obviously crooked, and it pains me every time I look at it. The fall has stressed my marriage, and it deteriorated my mental and physical health for a few months following the incident. It is still a very difficult event for me to ponder, it stresses and depresses me.
*Update
I took my son to a pediatric bone doctor in Albany who operated out of a recommended clinic for a through examination and he told me that he would have placed my son in a hard cast after a few days after the surgery. Something that was not done by Dr. R..D... He told me that in all the years of his practice he never had a bone set like he saw in my son. On the check out paper in the location for diagnosis he wrote "Deformed Elbow".
Dr. Robert Cooley operated on my son after he broke his arm. He refused to put him in a hard cast. My 2.5 year old son subsequently fell on his arm and it was knocked out of place. It did not heal straight. Dr. Cooley did not think this was a problem. "It will remodel" he said on numerous visits, consistently refusing to take responsibility for his failure. I brought my son to a different doctor and he diagnosed him with a "deformed arm". This second doctor said he would have never sent a young child home without a hard cast. It has been many years and his arm only looks worse. Choose Dr. Cooley if you want incompetence and future deformities
