McDonnell Place

Madalyn broke her arm on the monkey bars at a park at a Christmas party about 5 minutes after we arrived. (This was the week before Christmas.) I took her to the clinic and left the two older boys with friends- thank you, friends! These pictures were when we were leaving the clinic and headed to the hospital because her arm was literally in two pieces right there (you can see the pain on her face- it sort of sedated her, poor thing,) and she needed to be anesthetized to set it back in place.

She was so tough. The x-rays made her nervous because she knew they'd be moving her arm around and so she vomited once during those, but she really was a trooper. We were at the ER for probably 7 hours, till after midnight, she and I. I stayed in the room to witness the loud CLICK when the doctor got the bone back in place... she said ow, ow, ow... really steadily and methodically and monotone during this process because they said technically she could feel everything but wouldn't remember it. Uh. My heart hurts remembering that. And then when she woke up she was hilarious. She kept saying, "thwhy am thy thalking thike this?" And "why doth my Barbie hath two heads?" Then she would look at the super sweet grandfatherly nurse and say "why do you hath two headths?" And he would laugh. She also stared at the red light clamped to her thumb like she was on an acid trip. The entire staff was thoroughly entertained. A five year old girl is a precious thing.

This was the sling and stint she left the ER in because they couldn't cast it until the swelling went down. And it was bound to have swelling. When I first got to her after her fall I lifted her sleeve to see her arm bent into an unnatural S curve. The clinic doctor said he'd seen plenty of grown men come in crying over a fracture like that. Poor baby girl.

Took these pics Christmas morn. I have seen that dress about every other day for the past several weeks, by the way, because it was one of the few things that would fit over her arm.

Having your bones in place is a glorious thing, isn't it?

And after Christmas this was the cast she got. The cast with the ginormous elbow. Not real impressed with the cast job the doc did, but that's ok because it served its purpose and guess what... it's OFF now!! She got it off last Thursday and didn't even want to save it. I kind of wanted to because she went to her first sleepover and told me she stared at what I wrote on the cast when she was trying to sleep and she said, "and it was so sweet and it made me miss you." :( But can I really blame her for wanting to trash it and never look at it again? I mean... you can imagine the SMELL. Not something most people would hang onto, I guess. On a side note, isn't Sam getting BIG?!! :)

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