Saturday, June 20, 2009

I thought I broke my doll

Last Monday night I was playing with Hailey on the floor and she lost her balance and started to fall backwards. I grabbed onto her arm as she was falling and then heard a loud cracking noise. She then screamed and I couldn't get her to calm down except by feeding her. She wasn't moving her arm at all and it worried me that maybe I broke her arm. I felt awful like I had broke my doll. I waited a few hours to see if maybe she was crying because of hunger not pain but she fussed every time I moved her arm. Rich gave her a blessing but that still didn't calm my mind. I wanted to wait it out to see if she would start moving her arm again but 3 hours later and she still didn't flinch. I called my brother who is a doc and he convinced me it wasn't worth it to spend the night in the ER, so the next morning we went to the doctor. After a few tests they still were uncertain if there was a break so they did some x-rays to make sure. Lucky for us she didn't break anything but all we could do is wait it out. It wasn't long before she was her self again and playing if nothing ever happened. What a relief. The whole experience showed me how much I love her and I would do anything to take away her pain.

1 comment:

Clare said...

Scary! We've never had to go to the ER with Cami, but we did go through an MRI & surgery when she was 8 months. And she fell down the stairs a few weeks after all that. Luckily everything turned out fine. Glad Miss Hailey is okay.