We always expected to have our fair share of broken bones. We have four boys, and they come up with some crazy stuff. And we know that more than half of what they come up with we won’t hear about for over 20 years. So, it is not surprising for us to take a trip to the Emergency Room and find out that there is a broken bone. What is surprising is that in our family thus far we have had two broken bones; and both times it has been our daughter, trying to save the life of one of her brothers. Or something like that anyway.
This time she was riding her scooter down the sidewalk while one of her brothers was coming back up. She swerved to miss him, lost her balance, and fell and landed on her wrist. So on to the Emergency Room we go for our 3 hour extravaganza. (Which is actually not bad compared to the length of some of our Emergency Room visits.)
She indeed broke her wrist. They said it snapped back into place, but they wanted her to wait a week to see an orthopedic surgeon to make sure that any swelling went down before they cast it. Not even going to get into how fun it was trying to set up that appointment. That would be a blog post in and of itself, and this one is going to be lengthy enough as it is. We’ll just get to the part where we took her x-rays, not her, her x-rays, to the orthopedic surgeon on base who took one look at it, and said it needed to be reset. Oh, and he was also leaving within the hour to go on vacation for a week. Awesome. Needless to say, after some more fun on the phone that lasted way longer than it should, she had an appointment to see a different surgeon. That worked out great for us. After more x-rays (he didn’t like the angle of the other ones) he said that she did indeed need to have it reset.
They told us to come back at 2 for prep and then she would go in to surgery at 4. She did so great.
They were having trouble putting the IV in, but she was a trooper. She thought it was pretty awesome that her anesthesiologist was a Husker football player that had gone professional. She even asked him to be the first to sign her cast.
Once everything was all ready they took her back without us. They put her to sleep, or mostly, but she doesn’t remember anything.
Afterward , all the nurses raved about how great she did and what a sweetheart she is. She is pretty great. Now when her wrist heals she will be able to rotate it. Yea for specialists.
We love our amazing girl and hope her recovery goes well. So far she is doing great.
