Kylie's Broken Arm

On the 12th of May we ate dinner and went outside to ride bikes before it was time for bed.  Kylie has learned how to ride without training wheels in the last few months and looks forward to getting more practice.  I was outside with all the girls as they were riding and playing and watched Kylie fly by me, swivel her wheel and dump off her bike.  She immediately started screaming (not uncommon with minor injuries) and ran into the house saying she needed to lie down.  I cleaned up all the bikes and dragged a crying Molly into the house and found Kylie still histerical.  After trying to get her to calm down and checking for swelling or obvious injuries I decided to make the trip to the emergency room.  Matt was a few minutes from getting off work and he met us at the new hospital that opened last summer that is just minutes from our house.

Matt arrived and took Molly and Megan home to bed and I stayed with Kylie.  She was in definite pain and her elbow was getting more and more swollen.  After a couple hours of waiting and x-rays, we were called back into a room and did a little more waiting.  The doctor came in and said it was broken...she was so sad.  Her biggest concern was that she couldn't ride her bike or play soccer.  After more waiting, her arm was wrapped and then we waited for the radiologist to agree with the doctor that it was broken.  Poor Kylie was soooo tired and kept asking to go home.  She was so good.  Finally they let us go around 1 am, 6 hours after we had arrived!  It was such a long night and Kylie was very relieved to finally reach home and her bed.

The next day we made several trips to the doctor and then went back on Monday for the hard cast to be put on (that allowed time for the swelling to go down).  Kylie only has to wear the cast for 3 1/2 weeks but she does pretty much everything with it.  Today she was climbing the fence, she got on the trampoline and she can hold and carry things with her arm.  I think her little body is healing fast but she is anxious for the cast to come off so she can go swimming...she does love the water!  Only a couple weeks to go!

Here is Kylie in the doctor's office waiting for her hard cast to be put on.  She had the splint on all weekend and although it kept her arm from moving, it was pretty painful when it got bumped.

I had to take a picture of her bruises.  I wonder what it looked like the day after?  The inside of her elbow was even more bruised but Kylie said it didn't hurt.

Kylie's pediatrician wrapped her arm and the cast is soooo big!  But he left her wrist movable which I thought would hurt her but she does just fine with it.  The hard cast is white so the doctor wrapped it with purple ace wrap type stuff.  It was kinda hard to write on but we found a silver sharpie and her class signed their names on it.

Several girls in her class wrote their name and then "BFF" which made her feel pretty special!  I think she enjoyed the extra attention just a little bit!  :)