Broken Arm

I guess if you are going to meet your high deductible you might as well finish off the year with a bang! Mckenna was in the ER during July with dehydration after a nasty stomach bug. Then Brinley had her firework accident that costs us a lot of money because we had to take her to the U of U burn center. Our final (hopefully since the year is almost over) health issue was Mckenna falling down the stairs and breaking her arm. We were all bustling around trying to get ready for pack meeting and Mckenna was at the top of the stairs. She doesn't know what happened but she tumbled down. She must have stuck her arm out because when I picked her up her hand was hanging down weird and she was really hurting. I held her for a bit and she got really pale, wouldn't eat her dinner and wanted to go to sleep. She couldn't make her fingers move so we were pretty sure it was broken. We didn't wait and took her to the after hours clinic. After her arm was x rayed they determined her radius and ulna were both broken. It wasn't a serious break....they called it a buckle break and it is known to heal perfectly. She had two weeks in a long cast and two weeks in a short cast. It was a pain because it was her right arm but we made it through!

We had to wait 5 days for the swelling to go down before we could get the cast on.

Mckenna called this her "purse" 

She wanted pink and purple so the doctor did his best to do stripes.

The short cast was much better.