Wednesday, January 13, 2010

No bunk-beds were harmed...

The bunk-beds weren't even involved but knowing that would be the first question, considering our past history, I thought it'd be best to clear that up right off.

So on Monday I was sitting at the computer cataloging pictures on the computer when Camryn fell off the other office chair and landed on our hardwood floor.  She had a good cry and told me her arm hurt, but then went off to play.  Throughout the day I would notice her holding her arm once in a while but not excessively and she played fine all the while. 

Tuesday came nicely enough but when Camryn turned and knocked her arm on the banister she really let out a cry.  I had Aaron check it that night and with Aaron using all of his training and almost no response from Camryn with all sorts of checking we decided it was nothing.

This morning (Wednesday) Camryn was throwing a fit because I was washing her blanket and as she went to leave the laundry room tripped on the clothes basket and fell over onto the carpet.  She once again landed on her arm, but this time she screamed and I couldn't find a way to calm her down.  Off to the clinic we went and 30 minutes later we were looking at her x-ray and a small but noticeable buckle fracture in both her distal radius and ulna.

The casting went smoothly, minus that fact that they didn't have any colors, and thankfully it's only a short cast because that whole way out of the clinic and to the car Cammer was yelling "mom! take it off!".  She better is now.  I was hoping that this would prompt the end of thumb sucking (she's a left-thumb sucker) but she is obviously ambidextrous in that department so there goes that hope.

Sydney was with me during this whole process and when it was mentioned that she's the only kid to not have a cast now she looked at me and said "I want a cast too! Really bad!".  With 2 out of 3 now having had a cast, I'd say the odds were in her favor.


Hope you are better than this - Carolyn








4 comments:

  1. You are so funny Carolyn! And yes, my first thought would have been bunk beds!
    I had never heard of a buckle fracture until Morgan got one this summer in her wrist. We lucked out and Morgan got off with just a wrist brace.
    I hope Camryn feels better soon!

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  2. Aww poor thing! You know Tori broke her arm falling off a folded over futon mattress, it's so weird what can do it! Good luck with the cast, you never mentioned how long you had to deal with it. I hope not too long

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  3. Poor Camryn! Could you please stop playing so rough with your kids. They are fragile!

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