At 11 something p.m. on July 29th, Miss E rolled out of bed. Not something usually to think twice about. However, she would not be consoled after her fall. Complaining of pain in her neck, I gave her some children’s advil, which she proceeded to throw up. While we changed her night gown, we noticed that she wouldn’t move her right arm, wouldn’t let me touch it, and when we did move it, yelled in pain.
We packed up all of us and headed to the ER. There was no way Miss E was going back to sleep that night anyway. She was a trooper and while doctors visits and stuff usually scare her, we managed to make this one a grand adventure complete with xrays. When we got home, the result looked like this:
Diagnosis: One broken collar bone.
We spent the next 6 weeks in a sling, keeping her from swimming, running, climbing, jumping, and all those other wonderful kid/summer things. She finally got the sling off, only to spend another month still under restricted activity. We were thrilled when the beginning of October came and her xray said that she was fully healed and normal child-life could commence again.
It was a long couple of months, Miss E is very active. Not something we want to relive any time soon.
And we wonder why you didn’t take time to blog much this summer… Methinks I know the answer!
So grateful that long, tiring chapter is OVER!
Appartently this is common in Riverside, Nathan White had the same thing happen to him!
So glad she is back to her happy, healthy self!!
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