spent the afternoon at the ER (Page 2)

that's one of the reasons we went back to the ped yesterday for follow up - the ER doc seemed sure ella should be able to touch her nose and move her arm normally...but she couldn't. her ped thought that since the nurse maid happened in an atypical way (impact from classmate, versus arm tugging by an adult), she probably had a lot of soft tissue damage. he was really worried when she was in tears after he touched her arm.

as i said above, my dad is a doc and i have a ton of respect for medical professionals. too often people expect that than can fix anything, which isn't reality. that was not my expectation either. my problem was that this ER doc seemed to be thinking from a book instead of looking at my child's state of being. make sense? my guess is that if you've treated these before, and most kids ARE okay in a couple minutes, if there was a child who WASN'T okay and was still crying and in a lot of pain, you would check to see if there was another injury in addition to the nurse maid. she didn't say 'this is normal, for a child to hurt like this' she said 'she shouldn't be hurting now, she should be able to touch her nose'...but she couldn't! grumble.

luckily her ped was awesome about it and made sure the radiologist checked ella's growth plate and everything on the new x-ray (the old one didn't show her wrist at all). everything is fine. she's still in pain, but her swelling is going down and her arm is starting to get a bit black and blue. its also itching, which is a good sign!

btw, the ER doc gave ella 30 minutes to recover from the arm being put into place. after 30 minutes, she was still in pain and not able to move her arm...and the doc sent us home

Yeah, so what good was waiting 30 minutes, right? If she wasn't going to act on her not being well in 30 minutes than she should have just said, "Out the door with you!" Waiting 30 minutes, then not taking any additional action seems kind of silly, I agree. Well, alls well that ends well, hopefully. Nursemaids usually don't get any black and blue, so it does sound like she did some additional soft tissue damage. She'll start to use it when she's ready, but if it seems like too long, or she's still not acting right, next stop is ortho. OH, and lots of ice cream for a few more days.

she's already using it a bit today. she was feeling well enough to climb up on a stool at the bike shop and then, of course, fell over right on the same arm. reminds me of the time my little brother tried using the bathtub faucet as a diving boat and split his chin open...only to do it again the day after his stitches came out! anyway, she recovered from the fall and really is doing better. we're going to give her a bath in epsom salts tonight, do some more light sweeping massage with arnica cream, keep it elevated at night (the swelling was almost gone this morning, but over the course of the day he arm is a little puffy again), etc. she wants to go to her fun run tomorrow, but we told her we'd have to see how she was feeling.

Now that's my kind of girl! What a toughie!

How is she? Did she get to go to the fun run?