Broken Arm

5/6/09

I am MOTHER OF THE YEAR! The girls were all watching cartoons and playing in the game room while I was getting ready for the day. Chloe starting crying and I could hear Taylor yelling so I came in to see what all of the commotion was. Well, Chloe had fallen off of a 1-foot little Tyke slide in the game room and was saying her arm hurt. I compared it to the other arm and it was not swollen, it was not red or bruised and she could move all of her fingers. So I gave her an ice pack and sent her off to school. Well, I got a call from her teacher about 5 hours later saying that she was really favoring her arm and not using it for anything. So I headed to the school to pick her up. I called Chris on the way for his opinion and all I got from him was...."Don't tell me it is broken and you took her to school with a broken arm....I am so MAD". Yeah, you know I had so much important stuff to do that I decided to take her while I sit home and eat bon bons!

I got an appointment with a pediatric hand specialist to try and avoid the ER. Sure enough it was broken right above her wrist. The Dr. called it a buckle break. I felt so bad. She got to pick the color of her cast and she has to have it on 3 weeks. She is doing very well with it so far. One more week and counting until she can get it off.