Fall Follies

We had our first scary phone call from school this month when on a Friday afternoon we received a call that Claire had fallen at school and that she was not moving her arm and seemed to be in pain. Needless to say we both dashed out of work and tried to reach her as quickly as possible as we conference called out pediatrician to find out what to do as it was close to the end of the day. Dave picked Claire up and took her to the pediatrician's office and I was able to meet them there. Poor Claire seemed out of it and definitely was not using her arm at all. After meeting with a few nurses and nurse practitioners we were sent down to X-Ray. I think that we all experienced pain with the X-Ray as Claire was completely freaked out by the X-Ray machine and was screaming while I was holding her and Dave was waiting outside the room and could only hear what is going on. It sucked to say the least, but a good thing happened during the scream fest and that was that Claire or the X-ray technician fixed her arm. It turned out that she had nursemaids elbow and it needed to be popped back into place. We were very happy to learn that it was not broken and that her recovery took basically as long as it took to walk back upstairs to the clinic room. By the time we were back in the room she was eating, drinking, playing, and charming the nurses. While we hope that this is the biggest injury Claire will ever experience we know that this is probably the first of many emergency trips in our future.