Our Family Home Evening Adventure

Family Home Evening at our house is anything but quiet and reverent. And this past Monday was an especially difficult one. Great lesson by Elizabeth, lots of noise and wiggles by John & Sarah. Paul had the activity and he decided that the kids needed to head outside and burn some energy.

Everyone was having a great time playing outside popping bubbles, swinging on the swings, watching the birds fly in and out of the trees to build nests (perhaps that will be another post) and jumping on the trampoline.

Amidst all of this fun, Paul was even on the trampoline with the kids "bouncing" them. Well, something didn't go quite right when it was Elizabeth's turn to get "bounced". She came over to me crying and saying her arm hurt. I didn't think much of it, but had her sit on the bench with some ice and went through the usual, "Can you wiggle your fingers? Can you move your hand like this? How about like this?" Hmm, she couldn't supinate her hand and as I felt the back of her arm if felt odd.

So away we went at 6:30 in the evening to Urgent Care in Somerset to have it looked at. When we finally go there at 7:30 we were told they were so backed up they were done seeing patients for the day, so we headed over to the Somerset Hospital. The waiting room was packed, but of course they couldn't give me an estimate of how long we would be waiting, nor could they tell me if their hospital was able cast a broken arm. So back to Monticello we drove to go to the Wayne County Hospital, where I knew they wouldn't cast it but at least we could get a diagnosis pretty quick.

Sure enough, she had a broken arm; buckle fracture of the distal radius in her left arm! They put her in a temporary cast and sling, then sent us on our way to make and appointment with an Orthopedic Surgeon the next morning.

I let her stay home from school Tuesday so we could keep putting ice on it and so she could become proficient with using the bathroom with one hand (I would hate for the girl to be stuck in the bathroom at school with her pants down because she wasn't able to pull them back up with just one hand).

I couldn't keep her off of the trampoline. At least they weren't jumping, just coloring with sidewalk chalk.

Yesterday we headed to Lexington where Elizabeth was seen by a wonderful doctor (with a very friendly and kind staff) and received a beautiful purple cast which she gets to wear for just three weeks.

She has been an excellent patient through it all so far, very mellow most of the time. After a couple of days of a mellow Elizabeth I found myself missing her spunky personality. But she is on the mend. Once she got her cast on she said things felt better and was already able to move her arm more pain free. And last night she did all she could to not have to go to sleep and did all she could this morning to get out of chores, so I know she is beginning to feel better.