Easter Injuries, The Rest of the Story

Two years ago, this was our Easter.  After a full day, lots of candy and company, she took a topple down the stairs and cut her eyebrow open.  5 stitches later, we were still in mega tears and sad, and a bottle fixed most of everthing up.  A week later she them taken out and a small scar remains.  I have tried to get it to heal well, though using Mederma. 

This was the first time stitches were needed on a child in our home.  We are now experiencing the first "broken arm".  Is this going to be a two year tradition for her?  Easter Injuries??

 

Just a quick post.  We are headed to an Orthopaedic Surgeon at noon.  After I have the results there, I will do a full post here {on this same post} about what is going on, what happened, and what to expect for the new few weeks.  Please check back, if you want, but also please hold all questions until I can post everything.  {Like why she has to skip Easter when she is 5.}



For now, Jocelyn's got a fractured humerus.  
She is whiny and so am I. 

Okay, on to what happened: 


Last night at 6 pm, we said family prayer and put everyone to bed.  I even facebooked briefly that the house was quiet.  Everyone was asleep.  I spoke to soon.  Jocelyn came upstairs complaining her arm hurt and that she fell.  With a quick kiss and hug she went back to bed.  Around 9 she came up the stairs screaming "Help Me, My Arm!"  over and over.  We concluded that she better get an x-ray, as it might be worse than an "owie". 

I took her to MV ReddiCare.  After a horrible TWO HOUR wait, yes people, 2 hours!!! and a lame, stupid episode of River Monsters (the volume was too low and it was loud because it was crowded, which only made watching it worse, because I couldn't understand or hear what was going on well enough) on the Animal Planet channel,we finally got in for the x-ray.  An hour later, we knew she had a fractured humerus and would need to see a Orthopaedic Surgeon.   We were home and back in bed by 1:30 am.  Eek.  Lucky for Jocelyn, she is sleeping now, enjoying a much needed nap.

Her appointment had us nervous that she would need surgery - placing a pin in the bone so that it would heal properly.  That was the worse case scenerio that the Reddicare guy gave me.  Better would be that she would be in a sling for 6 weeks.

Lucky for us, and for her sake, she only has to wear it for 2 weeks, and will be re-x-rayed on week three.  They expect a 
full recovery and quick regrowth of the bone.  So the fracture must not be that bad.  Sure, the surgeon showed us on the x-ray, and I could barely see it, and I have no training to know if what I saw was bad or not.  

Guess not.  

She is to take the sling off every day and stretch her arm out and wear the sling only really as a reminder that she is to be careful and that other should be careful around her.  The worst part about it, is that she can't jump on the tramp for a few weeks.

Big deal. 

We are very grateful that it's not worse.   
But seriously, she is skipping Easter in two years.