So here is the story of how Brooklyn broke her elbow:
Thursday afternoon I was sitting in the front yard reading and the kids were down at the park. I heard a scream and saw Brooklyn at the bottom of the monkey bars. She walked home crying. I thought it was just her being dramatic. I sat her on the chair outside and she couldn't move her arm. She kept it close to her body and babied it pretty good. And she wouldn't stop crying. I called the Dr and they told me to head to Urgent Care. So we do that and get xrays. The ped Dr there said the elbow looked fine and she said it was a nurse maid elbow (dislocation). Brooklyn had that when she was 2. So they popped her elbow back into place and we went home. The next morning Brooklyn couldn't move her arm again and said it hurt. A nursemaid elbow doesn't ever hurt after really, so I thought that was weird but assumed maybe her arm was just bruised and sore. So she went to school Friday. When I picked her up, her teacher said her arm wasn't used much and she babied it all day. I called back to the clinic here and they said to take her to the ER. That was the same night at the father/daughter dance. I knew she couldn't miss that, and I didn't know what to do since the ER would take forever and we were just taking her as a precaution. Right as I decided I would just take her Saturday morning if her arm still hurt, the Radiologist from the Urgent Care called and said he looked over her xray and said it was a fractured elbow. I was so bummed! He wanted her in that night to get a splint on until Monday when we could go to an ortho and get it casted. I told him about Brooklyn's dance and how she would be devastated to miss it. He told us to come after the dance! So she headed to the dance, broken elbow and all. Don't worry, Wade made sure her arm was taken care of.
Long story short, we get it splinted and wait for five days until the Ortho here had an available appointment to see her and get her casted. He said it was a cold fracture. The radiologist from the UC said he worried it was in the growth plate, that would have been horrible for the growth of her arm. But the Ortho said the growth plate was fine.
So she has a cast for 3 weeks!
At first she was discouraged and bummed about her cast and her broken elbow. It's of course her right arm and she is right handed, so it's difficult to write, eat and wipe, ect. She has been a serious champ and gone with the flow and had a great attitude about it. She quickly learned to eat with her left hand and manages all other things fine with her right.
The only thing I am bummed about is the timing. I am sad she will have a hard time holding the baby. And I know I am really going to need her help. Luckily the cast will hopefully come off a week after the baby is born. That's nothing :)
Oh and one other thing to mention. The monkey bars are 3 and 0 with Brooklyn. She has had major blisters all over the palm of her hands, fallen off at school and smacked her head and ended up in the nurses office and now this :) Poor girl. But she has gotten so good at the monkey bars and plans to head back to them once she is healed!
Weston thinks this face is cute. He always poses like this for a picture. Maybe he sees a few too many girls on facebook with this same pose ;) jk, he doesn't look at fb, but this picture reminds me of all the ridiculous self portraits people take and post on fb.
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