Parents of the year? Not a chance!

Baby girl has a fractured arm! Hairline fracture, but a fracture none the less. She fell off the bed on Friday and landed on her hand. Grandma said she cried a lot and every time she put pressure on it or touched it she cried. Grandma wanted to take her to the doctor but I told her to wait. I said that I didn't want to spend the money for the doctor to tell me that it was bruised. (Parent rights should be revoked immediately!) I kept an eye on her all night Friday night and Saturday, of course, and she wouldn't use her hand but it seemed if she didn't pay attention to it she was just fine. Every once in a while she would burst into tears and say it hurt again. We went to Chuck E Cheese on Saturday and she played just fine. By Sunday (when Daddy got back in town) she wouldn't use her left hand at all. It just hung by her side. It looked pretty sad! Dave decided that we should take her to the doctor just to be on the safe side. We both had injuries as kids that our parents ignored that turned out to be pretty bad. We never forgave them for that and I'm sure they are still trying to forgive themselves as well. Of course, I still didn't think anything was really wrong, but agreed that we may as well have it checked out. The doc did an X-ray and then came in and had Riley move her hands and checked her out. While she was moving it I thought he was just showing us that she was fine. Nope! He then said "It is fractured!" What??? How could that be? Wouldn't she have been in so much more pain? Or is she really that strong? Turns out she is really that strong! In our defense, the doc said that most parents wouldn't even bring their kid in for that type of fracture because it's not swollen and it doesn't appear that serious. However, if she were to fall again in just the right spot it would snap. That's a pretty scary thought to us!! They put her arm in a little tiny splint and wrapped her all up. She hated it at first but has gotten used to it now. It needs to stay wrapped for 2-4 weeks and then we'll X-ray it again and see if she's all patched up.

Riley now has her own story of how Mommy told her to "walk it off" when she shouldn't have. She is such a little trooper! I can only hope that she doesn't remember this when she grows up!

P.S. I have been reduced to using cell phone pictures. I apologize for the picture quality!