A little more than a week ago, this girl broke her wrist. She has grown up so much in the last year that sometimes she's a little more clumsy than normally. She was running across the playground, tripped, sprained her right wrist and broke her left one as well as hitting her head on the concrete. She thought it would go away, but an hour later it was still really painful. She called me and I came to the school. I brought some children's ibuprofen and something to wrap her arm in incase she had sprained it. She could move it, but as soon as I touched it to put the wrap on she was cringing. Usually I have them sleep on it to see if it's really broken or not... but I had a feeling this one was really broken. I asked my mom to watch the kids and took Seth and Ada to the doctor for the millionth time.... (Seth was sick the day before, I took him in for a sinus infection... then me in for my foot and a sinus infection the day of.) He said that it looked broken, but he wanted an x-ray... we headed to the hospital and got an x-ray done. Seth was done by then... 4th doctor's appointment in one day. Ada was a trooper though. She was brave and just cheerfully chatted with me or Seth while she waited. Then we went home to bed. Ada's doctor was out the next day, but I called the on call doctor to see what the x-ray said... yes, she had a buckle fracture in one of her wrist bones by her thumb. Luckily the casts are water proof... not recommended to really get wet all the time, but when we accidently get it wet when I help her shower.... not a big deal. Since she has one hand available... she teases me by saying things like, "I'll go wash my HAND." and if I ask her to give me a hand, "Sure, but only one." She's loved having everyone sign it... most of the little notes have the word Moo in it. I drew a cow on it for her and it just rubbed off because we didn't use the right marker. She'll get her hand back a week before their piano recital. Likelihood that she'll have her left hand for the song done in a week?
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