Josie and Noah July 4, 2009
Josie and Noah May 31, 2010
Josie and Noah May 31, 2010
Mary Jo, Katie and Nancy
11 years ago
Monday, June 14, 2010
Before Josie's Accident
So we had our first visitors on Memorial Day Weekend. The Rondeaus (Greg, Alicia and Noah) came and stayed with us. It has been a year since we've seen them last so it was nice to see them and get the kiddos together again. Little Noah wasn't feeling well with an ear infection and teething but he didn't slow him down. He showed us his mad crawling skills and climbing skills on the stairs. He loved holding on to our ottoman and walking around it. I believe that Josie was inspired to do the same after his visit. It is just too bad she had her little accident a couple of days after they left. I am not too worried, I think she will be moving like crazy once her splint is off.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Josie's New Splint
She is not upset over her leg but over the fact we will not let her have the camera.
Thank you Nordstroms for your fabulous umbrella bag! No worries over Josie's leg getting wet during her bath.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Josie's First Visit to the ER
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, 2010
Ok 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!
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, 2010
Ok 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!
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