Our little girl fell off the bed this morning, more like jumped off. I had left the room to get something and came back to find her scooted to the edge. I was at the door when I saw the back of her leap off the far side of the bed. I immediately ran over and found her tummy down crying hysterically. It had totally scared her and me too. I wanted to remain calm so that I could calm her down. She soon stopped crying but just wanted me to hold her so I did. I decided that the fall scared her more than anything because I was able to calm her and she acted as if she was fine. I decided that I did not need to take her to the ER. I then laid her on the bed. She wanted her blanket and me to lay beside for a while so I did. Finally I decided that she needed to eat, it had been an hour past the time she usually ate.
Still in her footie pajamas, I took her to her room to change her. I touched her right foot and she whimpered. I then played around with her foot and she started to cry. I touched her ankle and nothing just when I messed around her toes did she cry. I then tried to stand her up and she would not put any weight on it so I decided that I needed to take her to the ER. Where we live there is an emergency center right across our townhouse community. Her carseat was wet from being washed so I put her in her stroller and walked over there.
She did fine until they took us back to a room. As soon as we walked in she immediately started to cry from fear of getting the shot. That's the only reason we show up in a room like this is to get a shot and have strangers poke around at you. I got her to calm down but then the doctor walked in and she started up again. He had the personality of a wet rag which is probably common in an ER setting but he examined her and set us up for some x-rays. At least the nurses were very nice and comforting.
Two girls who were the x-ray techs came back to get us. The let me hold her in position which I was very grateful. I laid her down and she immediately started to cry. She just knew there was a shot coming. They put an apron on me and a tiny one on her. They instructed me how to hold her and we took three or four pictures, a couple of her foot and of her leg from her knee down. We went back to the room where the nurses were very attentive.
First the x-ray techs asked me if I wanted a blanket for her or if I wanted to lay down with her. The nurses showered her with stickers. The doctor came back with the news that she fractured her leg. I was totally not expecting that and the tears just flowed out of me. She fractured her tibia right above her foot. He told me that they would splint it and I would need to follow up with an orthopedic for a real treatment plan.
He left and I just held her close to me, probably smothering her and bawled. A very nice woman from registration came in and consoled me. She hugged me tightly and reminded me that I am not the only mom to go through this. Her advice is to have a couple more and this will seem minor. Still she is so tiny and young and to think of her suffering in anyway while I am fine just cut right through me. She was a trooper the only time she cried is if I touched her foot or medical personelle walked through the doors, mostly for the medical personelle.
Of course what would an ER visit be without the need to give an IV. One nurse came in and once I told her what happened she immediately started spouting out IV, "she needs an IV," without talking to the doctor. I was not having an unnecessary IV placed in her. Anyway she talked to the doctor and later apologized saying that she only needed to apply a splint. She measuered her leg and gathered the supplies. She put on the splint and it looked so tiny on Josie's little leg. Another nurse came in and gave us some instructions then discharged us. She will go to the orthopedic doctor tomorrow at 11am for a follow up. Until then here's a picture of our little girl's first injury.
Thursday June 3, 2010Ok it is now tomorrow and I have an update. I actually put up this entire post today. My computer is so slow that it has taken me a while to get to my photos and videos.
I did take Josie to the orthopedist and he said that her leg looked really good. It was a clean break. She freaked out and would not let him touch her foot to which he replied, "well she just showed me everything I needed to see. She has great movement in her toes and she rotates her ankle. There is hardly any swelling." They put a better splint on her with a lot more padding in it and supports on the back of her leg down her foot to her toes as well as down the sides of her leg. They also put tape around it so she couldn't pull at it as much. She was really cute when they were wrapping her leg. She held it out and would talk and point at it as if she was knew all about what they were doing. They did a splint because little ones can maneuver easily out of any kind of splint and cast so there was not any point in putting her in a fiberglass cast. I take her back in a week for more x-rays and back again the next week. He said that is her third x-ray looked good she could get her splint off at that time. So if it looks good that is a total of three weeks only in her splint! She will also not need to go to physical therapy! He said that by a year's time that you would not even be able to tell that she ever had a broken bone! Yay!!!!!!!!! I will post her new splint soon. She is napping at the moment hence why I am able to do this post!
This picture cracks me up. Josie is playing with his emergency ride on truck. Noah sees her and immediately crawls over there. He wants to play with it and squeezes his way through. Josie is so excited to see him that she shouts, "Noah!" She puts her arm around him as she would greet a friend then continues to play with the toy over him.
Their matching shirts this year were homemade complete with their own hand prints and pipecleaner fireworks! Even the Dads helped with these. All the hands were necessary in pulling this off!
Matching monkey pajamas are so fun! We can only get away with this for so long! Be sure to watch the videos in the "more videos" section of our blog. I am having problems loading them onto the blog. For some background I love how Josie just followed Noah everywhere and wanted to be with him. I had to literally pull her off of him at one point. He was standing leaning on the coffee table and she was sitting leaned up against him. He goes along with it sometimes, ignores her at others, and just flat out crawls away from her after a while. Josie doesn't quite get the hint and there is one video where Noah is trying to push her away for some space. Still our little Josie is oblivious to his unsubtle cue and thinks its a game. They did have fun playing together.
Grant finally got to play a round of golf after unsuccessfully finding an affordable public one near home. He and Greg enjoyed some of male bonding time. Thanks to growing up with my dad who is from South Carolina, we knew we had to have boiled peanuts and some peaches. They never disappoint!
