Chomp

 

Corbin got bit at daycare. Seems he had a toy that a one year old wanted. So he bit Corbin to get it from him. My poor little mas was assulted.

 

 

But......days later, two teeth starting to make their way.

Try and take his toy now.

Auf Wiedersehen

For the last week I have been counting down the days for Charlotte's cast to be removed. Then yesterday into today I started counted the hours. It has been a long 6 weeks for me. Thank goodness the weather was still warm, and she was still able to wear tank tops and dresses. Charlotte really had not seemed bothered by having her arm limited as to what it could do. If anything she figured out that it could be used as a weapon. My reasons for wanting to get this cast off was really simple. It was stinky, and I mean really stinky. From the food, to her being sick. A lot of "stuff" had stuck to it without being able to remove it.
The doctor was very positive about how her arm healed and said that she is at a low risk of breaking it again. It healed absolutely perfect.

So long and farewell the to stinky pink cast.
We will not miss you.

Of course we picked pink

Charlotte did AWESOME when getting her cast. I, being lucky and never having needed to get a cast, was unsure as what to expect. I really thought it was going to be a lot harder to place the cast than it was.

She has adjusted really great to not having the use of her left arm. She continues to use it in was that she can.

The only downfall the her having a cast is.....she now has a pink weapon attached to her arm, and I already have taken a few hits from it.

Broken Angel Wing

Where to begin? Thursday night (9/9/10) after dinner Charlotte and I went into the backyard to play. Like the million other times we have been back there, she is climbing all over things. Her water table, picnic table, patio chairs. I was sitting just outside the sliding glass door, and Charlotte was at the other end of the patio climbing on the chairs. I looked away for one second and when I looked up, she was on her way down and landed on her arm. At first I did not think anything of it because she has fallen before, and usually gets right back up, but this time she just laid there crying. I went over a picked her up and I knew it. I knew she was hurt. You could see the bowing in her arm. She was not screaming, her finger did not swell so for a minute I thought maybe it not not what I thought it was. I took her down to Steve, and right when he looked at her arm he said " it broken" and we were off. We took her to Intermountain Medical ER where thank goodness there was no wait to get in. Once we got back they took our info, asked what felt like a million questions. . It felt like an eternity to get back into our room, which then we waited an eternity again to wait for the nurse, then again for the doctor. All this time Charlotte is crying. Finally !!! The nurse got the okay from the doctor to give her some morphine. This was the hardest part for me. We had to pin Charlotte down to the table, wrapping her in a sheet so she would not move while they put the IV in. She screamed the moment that IV poked her, but minutes later she was feeling better, and started to quite down. Then we waited...again. This time for x-rays. Steve stayed in with Charlotte in getting her arm x-rayed as I paced back and forth outside the door wearing a rut into the floor. By the time we back to the room, Charlotte was not feeling a thing. She was smiling and laughing, standing on her head, jumping in the bed, and flirting with all the Doctors. After some time the Doctor came and talked to us about the outcome of her xrays. Her forearm is broken right between her wrist and her elbow, her Radius bone is broken ,and her Ulna bone is bent. There was not an Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon the at IMC so they stabilized her arm, and we were then sent up to Primary Children's Hospital. At this point it is 10pm , we arrived at IMC just after 7pm. Charlotte's bed time is 8pm.
Once we get up to primary it feels like the entire thing over again, but at least this time Charlotte was not crying. Same million questions, same waiting an eternity for anything to happen. After the initial check-in and check-up from the doctors it was time to reset her arm. This is where I started to get scared because had the be sedated, and I had to leave my baby in the hand of 6 medical professionals. I chose to leave the room while this did this because I did not want to see them working on her, and I did not want to hear any bone popping noises. So Steve and I went to wait in the waiting room, for again what felt like an eternity, but was only 10 minutes. her arm was put into a brace. casting was not a possibility since they had to reset her arm, and there could be some swelling with that.

Finally we got paged to the back, where they were getting Charlotte some apple juice. We could not check out until some time had passed to make sure Charlotte was not having any complications with coming out of her sedation and the make sure the medicine had run its course and was now out of her system. This places us at 1am.

We, all three of us were exhausted. Crying, being scared, worried, unsure, nervous, all of the above for the last 6 hrs. It took a toll on us all. Finally were allowed to leave and I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. We all slept late this next morning, Charlotte sleeping until 1030a.

Since then she has done really well. The first few days were really hard. I am sure her arm hurt, she refused to wear her sling, refused to eat anything but yogurt or applesauce, and she had a hard time with her sling. She is doing great now. She is acting as if her arm is just fine. Putting pressure on it. Using her fingers, and holding objects with both hands. Climbing on chairs, her toy box, the sofa. Putting me near a heart attack every time she stumbled.
Tomorrow ( Weds 9/15/10) she gets her cast and I could not be more excited. Yes, I am nervous because I am not sure what casting her arm is going to in-tell, but excited because her arm will be in something much more stable.

I am still feeling extremely guilty. She was in my care and I should have been quicker to respond. Many tears have been shed by me, but I starting to calm down some.

(x-rays after her arm had been set)

Another

Add this one to the list of injuries. This is what happens when you walk into the corner of a nightstand.

and....

....this is what happens when an overly excited toddler goes running after her dad when he gets home from work. She falls in bumps her face on the driveway.

Poor things, she has had a few bad days.

OUCH !

What a night. My heart is still racing. Charlotte was looking out the front window, and I just gone into the kitchen to finish cleaning up dinner when I heard her fall...then she screamed. The moment I turned the corner I knew some thing was terribly wrong. As I got closer I could see the blood just draining from her mouth. Panic set in and I yelled for Steve. Immediately we could see that she had cut her lip. We tried putting some pressure on it with a towel but she was not having it. Steve gently and ever so often wiped her mouth as she laid on my shoulder screaming and sobbing. This went on for nearly 10 minutes. I could see that "My Friends Tigger and Pooh" was playing on the television, so I took her into the TV room to try and get her mind off of her injury. After some time, she stopped crying and whimpering, and finally calmed down. She ended up with a small cut and a good fat lip. Off to bath to clean her and I up. I looked like I had been though a battle zone, and I felt like it too. Once in the bath she acted as if nothing had happened. She was splashing in the water, chewing on the bath toys. After some time she finally let me look at her upper gums and my heart sank.


She has got 4 teeth on the bottom. The width and depth of them gouged her upper gums very bad. They are bloody, swollen,tender and terribly cut up. Just before bed time she bumped her mouth and they bled and she screamed. I feel so bad for her. I know it is going to be a long night for her and for me. we had such a fun day, and it ended in such a terrible way. I hope that a good nights rest helps her heal some and that she feels better by morning.

Lucky me

I have DeQuervains Tenosynovities. My wrist have been really bothering me for about the last 9 months. I just believed it would get better on its own over time. I pro bably still would not have gone to see anyone if I had not gone to stop Charlotte the last week from getting in the dog food. I reached for her and the worst pain i had ever felt in my wrist shot right up my arm. It was extremely tender for about a week. This morning I went and saw a specialist, and they determined what it was pretty quickly. Dr. Kimball really believes that it will take surgery to repair the damage, but that is something I am not going to jump quickly to. Instead I chose to have a wrist sling for the next two weeks, and take some cortisone pills vs the shot which goes directly into the wrist tendons. The sling prevents any wrist or thumb movement, and is really making things more difficult for me. Especially with a 1yr old running around. I really hope surgery can be avoided.

To learn more click here.