Poor Christen

Last Thursday- a normal morning, getting lunches made backpacks ready the works. Even Christen looking especially cute as she went outside to wait for the school carpool. Two minutes later - not normal - as Christen comes in screaming bloody murder - "Im not going to school today!" I looked at her pretty little face as I get an icecube for her mouth and start cleaning the scrapes on her face. I calmly told Trevor to go with the carpool and that I would bring Christen in a bit tardy. I was sure that she would be fine in a few minutes after I calmed her down and got her cleaned up.

Then, I glanced down at her arm.

"Oh! I guess you arent going to school today!" Totally broken - wrist. She is still SCREAMING.

She had been scootering - a normal thing - and hit a divot in the sidewalk.

Trevor got picked up and I got dressed quickly. We went to the drs office first. They have now seen all three of my kids for one reason or another in the past 2 weeks. Should have gone staight to the ER. I had called the nurse and she said that they can cast there - what does she know?

Anyhow, they were great at the ER and got to her quickly. It took about 4 hrs before we got home. They gave her some really strong medicine to make her "zombie out" is what I called it. Her eyes were wide open but she couldn't see, hear, remember, or feel anything as they had a specialist do a closed reduction. I left the room for a moment.

We were hoping that she would have a hard cast by now, but that will be next week. She has to be super careful until then. (she is in a soft cast and sling) Poor thing - no PE, or regular recess.

So, today as I was waiting with them for the carpool, Christen had figured out how to hula hoop holding up her sling as Trevor insisted on doing tricks with the very scooter she fell off of.- notice Trevor in the back of the one picture. I didnt have the camera in the ER and didnt have the heart to capture her when she was screaming in pain!! The other pictures in the drs office was Monday when we thought that they would hard cast her arm. She was SO disappointed! It just had not healed enough to mess with it yet.

The day after she stayed home and we enjoyed the Red Robin free kids meal card that the nurse gave us. That and a trip to the dollar store brought a smile on her face. The first day was rough because the perscription medicine was too strong on her stomach so we switched to Motrin.