I use " " because two doctors thought it was broken, but the orthopedic doctor doesn't seem to think it is even though we are treating it as one.
Here's what happened...
On Tuesday morning I put Olivia in timeout because she was hitting me. Her timeout spot is in the formal dining room on the floor. She was crying and yelling because she was upset to be in timeout {which is normal for her and pretty much any kid in timeout}. I kept moving her back to her spot because she kept getting up. I went back to my room to finish doing my hair while she finished her timeout and all of a sudden I heard a painful cry come from her. I ran to her and she was laying face down on the floor. I swooped her up carefully because I wasn't sure where she hurt herself and kneeled on the ground with her in my arms. I checked her face and mouth first because I was worried she maybe hit her face on the ground. There was no blood or bumps. I stood up and a kept looking at different parts of her while I rushed to the couch with her and noticed she kept grabbing her right hand/wrist with her left hand. I was able to narrow it down to her wrist. Connor, being a really good big brother, got her ice without me even having to ask. I put it on her immediately, but she was still crying really hard. I decided after about 5-10 minutes I needed to take her to get an x-ray. I moved her to my bed and she stopped crying as hard, but anytime her hand/ arm moved she would cry out and say "ouchies." I finished getting dressed and drove her straight to urgent care.
Aaron met me there and when the doctor came to check her, she had the most serious face. She didn't even flinch, which was a surprise because anytime we touched it she would stiffen up and cry out. He ordered an x-ray, and they did it right away. We waited for maybe 3 minutes before he came in to tell us she had a broken ulna. It wasn't a big break, and he was going to send it to radiology, but from what he could tell it was broken. They put her in a splint and the doctor told us we needed to see her PCM or get a referral to orthopedics to see if they wanted to put a cast on her, and then we left.
Aaron called to make an appointment with her PCM, but they couldn't see her until the next morning. He had already taken the rest of the day off work, so we thought we would try going to the clinic and asking them at their front office because maybe they could fit her in. They couldn't, so we thought we would try going to the orthopedic clinic and see what they would say. Sure enough they wouldn't see her without getting the referral from her PCM, or from the urgent care on base. {Apparently there is an urgent care in the ER that we could have gone to and they would have done all the tests and had it in their system, plus they would have put in all the necessary referrals. I wish I would have known that because it would have made everything so much easier and saved us so much time.} So off to urgent care, again, we went! We got there at 1:30 and they set us up with a 5pm appointment. We didn't wait to wait there, so we went home and rested for a little while.
We got back to urgent care just in time for our 5 o'clock appointment, but didn't get seen until 6:45. Then the doctor didn't even come in to see her until 7:30. We were so tired of waiting! He ordered his own xrays and by the time we got those done it was already 8:30. He thought she might have broken bother her radius and ulna, but he was waiting for the orthopedic doctor to take a look at them. The orthopedic doctor could tell something was different, but he didn't think they were broken. He wanted to see Olivia the next morning, and because her splint was too tight before, he didn't want that to happen again so he gave us the choice of whether or not to splint it again. I told him I wanted for her to have one since she was going to be sleeping and I didn't want her to roll on top of it or bend it while she was sleeping. They gave us one that was way too big for her, and we came home. She fell asleep in the care, and transferred really easily. She was pretty restless throughout the night and in quite a bit of pain, so I kept alternating her pain medicine every four hours.
In the morning we went to see the orthopedic doctor and he told me the same things the doctor last night told me. He moved her wrist and arm around and once again she didn't flinch. He was really happy that she wasn't pulling away from him and had good range of motion. I mentioned how rough her night was and how anytime I moved it she would cry out, so he decided she should wear a cast for about 10 days and then we can take it off and see how she is doing. He let me choose a color and the techs put it on her. She was perfect! She didn't move or cry once while they were doing it.
It has now been a couple days and she is doing so well. She hasn't hardly complained and hasn't let the cast stop her from doing the things she did before.
XOXO,
Jenn
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