So tonight we convened the first official meeting of The Broken Arm Club. Jocelyn and Ben are our first inductees.
I told Ben to smile, so he's making a smile with his fingers. Funny boy!
What troopers!
Jocelyn actually broke her arm three weeks ago. The kids were dancing in the family room and there was some sort of collision. I checked it out and though she was mildly complaining she never cried or anything and I guessed it was fine. Then Saturday (I was gone from 4pm Friday to 9pm Saturday for a Young Women Book of Mormon read-a-thon so I missed all this fun action) I guess Joc and Aimee were supposed to be cleaning their room and somehow Aimee stepped on Jocey. She called me at the sleep-over and it was sooo sad, she said, "Mom, Aimee stepped on my arm, with her black high-heels on, and she's still smiling!" And she burst into tears. She was more sad that Aimee wouldn't say sorry and help her than about her arm hurting. It was super swollen so Cody took her for the x-ray and it was obvious at least one of the bones had been broken badly about three weeks ago. It wasn't healing right but was so swollen from Aimee stepping on it that she just got a splint and a sling. Also, both of the bones on the x-ray are seriously bowed. I don't know if that indicates another fracture of the other bone too or if they just grew that way. It doesn't look right to me, and tomorrow, we've been sent to the ortho specialist at McKay and he's going to check it out and she'll get her cast. Hopefully they have RED!
Ben was just trying to climb on Cody who was sitting on the couch about to call the babysitter for tomorrow night. I was close by too and saw Ben dive head first towards the ground. I tried to grab him but didn't get there in time. He didn't fall that hard though, it seemed, but he wouldn't stop crying. So unlike him! He's endlessly stoic and brave. We called the neighbor over for a Priesthood blessing, gave Tylenol and when he still was so sad we ran to the Instacare. The dr said his fracture is a buckle fracture of his wrist and in the scheme of things is pretty common. I guess it's also known as the Toddler Fracture because it is the weakest spot on little kids and so many break them with even minor falls.
So there you have it. Two kids, two broken arm diagnoses, two days. Funny huh!
4 comments:
My goodness. We might have to wrap your darling kids in bubble wrap! Poor kiddos. I love that they had such happy faces in the pictures.
Misery loves company, lol. Glad you can have a sense of humor thru all of this. I hope Joc's apt goes well and she won't need anything serious like surgery. It's pretty cute the two of them together with their little casts. Good luck!
Poor kids! Just a heads up ,though, whoever takes Joc in to get her arm set needs to be mentally prepared. If she does in fact have a bowed fracture, the way they set those is to bend it back by hand. I have an EMT friend who passed out when he took his daughter in for that. So DON'T WATCH! ;-) And I'll pray that's not what she has ;-)
Oh my gosh!!! Exciting household!! How are you guys? They should have red AND glow in the dark!!! Call if you need anything!!!
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