Um....simply that I hope it doesn't continue the way that it started!
We have started this new year with quite a few firsts, and they are not good ones!
Let's start with January 5th, which began as a happy day (yes Janessa's b-day) but also the day of cousin Isabella's princess themed family party - much to the thrill of our girls! Donning their cousins finest gowns, the girls paraded around Auntie Rachel's house, and all was fine and good until we heard a series of thumps and a cry. The cry was from Kayla. Now...that right away says something. Kayla never cries over something important. Don't get me wrong, she cries at the drop of a hat, in the most irrational ways, at the most irrational times...but she NEVER cries when she is hurt. The kid bounces off walls daily and never says a word, just spends her existence covered in bruises that we never know where they came from.
Sorry...I digress...back to the 5th...Mark rushes over to pick up a crumpled princess at the bottom of the hardwood staircase. It wasn't a big flight of steps, only about 5 or 6 and we think she fell down about 3 or 4 of them. She stopped crying within a few minutes but said her arm hurt. Mark put ice on it right away, but she was ready to go back to playing within no time. The part that bothered us was that she had gone sheet white...and although she was using the arm, she was certainly being careful with it - and careful is something that Kayla never is! But there was no way she was going to miss out on cake or any other part of the festivities - she kept saying she was fine.
That night, we debated taking her to emerg, simply because it still looked swollen. She wasn't complaining at all, but would say it hurt if you pressed on it, but again, not crying...just saying "ow, you hurt me". They were calling for another massive snow/ice storm that night so we decided that unless things got worse in the night we would take her to the Dr first thing in the morning.
After a trip to the pediatrician in the morning, we were told it was just a sprain, and it would take 2-3 weeks to recover. He assured us that it couldn't be broken otherwise she would be dying in pain if he moved it certain ways and when he moved it, she didn't say anything. Weeeeeelll as it turns out, doctors can be wrong.
On the 8th (yes 3 days later), I had finally had enough....she had been waking in the night, but when we asked her if her arm hurt, she would say "no...it not hurting...I just want to sleep...but I cannot sleep"...her arm still looked swollen, and she still would say it hurt if you touched it, and that day she started favouring it like a little bird with a broken wing (but yet totally using her hand??) Sooo...off to emerg we went...and before even xraying it, the nurses told us it was definitely broken. POOR KID!!! We felt horribly guilty, especially having to explain that she fell 3 days prior, but in our defense we DID take her to a Dr...just not a very smart one apparently! So after xrays, the ER doctor confirmed that she had a buckle fracture in her ulna and would need to be in a cast for 6 weeks.
All that to say it doesn't always pay to be tough:-(
Here she was the on the 8th during the day, before having the cast on...so her arm is literally broken and she is going on with her day as if nothing is wrong!
Here she is the morning after her cast was put on...so far only Mattea has signed it...
With her sunny little personality, she has always been a fan favourite at church so her new cast drew quite the crowd and by the time we got back home there wasn't much room left to sign!
At her 2 week followup - the Dr said to come back in one more week, that he might remove the cast early!
This was taken just on Tuesday, which was the day we would find out if her cast would come off
Its off!!! The Dr. said it was very loose (literally pulled it off instead of cutting it off), and then after xraying he said it is not completely healed yet, but he can see the new bone growing and everything appears to be healing normally, so he didn't want to put her back into a cast. So she is just under instructions to be careful for the next little while. Great. This Dr. obviously doesn't know her...
There was some weird bruising on her wrist under the cast, the break itself was on the outside bone (ulna) of her forearm. Aside from the bruise, her arm looked a little skinnier, definitely alot scalier, and stinkier!!! But after a nice bath (without being covered in a plastic bag) and some cream - she's back to her usual self....
and true to form, has required the use of an icepack on her head twice in the two days since having the cast removed...
...like I said...that Dr doesn't know her...he probably should have left it on:-P
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I didn't know she broke her arm! Poor thing!
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