Fast forward to Yesterday evening, 24 hours after the fall(I'm such a rotten mommy) and she says something again. This time I see a little swelling from the wrist toward the elbow. We decide I should take her up to the ER and the entire time I'm thinking, Am I overreacting?
Maybe, but better safe than sorry. We get up there and our ER is relatively fast (comparatively, I think we waited 45min). We saw a lady who had severed her index finger with a kitchen knife and a guy with a compound fracture of his arm.
Again, I'm thinking, am I overreacting? We get the X-rays done, which was really cool, because we had just talked about X-rays last week. The radiologist lets me sit behind the window and watch the x-ray appear on the computer screen. She immiediately says, "Yep, there's a fracture."
I felt horrible. My poor baby. But she had been using it all day, twisting it and bending it. She even put her weight on it to scoot up onto the bed. The Doctor walked in when she did that and said, "Hey, didn't anyone tell you that arm is broken?"
I'm in awe that she wasn't complaining more. She was more upset when she heard what she would have to wear for the next 6 weeks and that she wouldn't be able to go in the pool.
This is her, "Are you kidding? I have to wear what?! For how long?! It doesn't hurt that bad!!"
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