Before I start this post, yes it's outdated.... but I'm terrible about blogging on time and at least I'm trying. So back in August, august 13th to be exact, our family from san diego come up to the bay area and we wanted to get together with them. So we decided it would be tons of fun for the kids to go to the san jose discovery museum. It was so much fun for the kids and we spent all day there. Towards the end of the day, we were just about ready to leave the museum, when Alyssa comes to us crying and tells us that she fell and hurt her arm. She didn't want to move it and said she wanted to just go home and go to sleep. This is NOT like her because we had plans to go to dinner after the museum with our family and for her to say she wants to just go home, we knew she was definitely uncomfortable. Lucky for us, Aunt Dori who was with us that day is a pediatrician in san diego and she tried to get somewhat of a "look" at her arm. It didn't look broken and because Alyssa wasn't screaming and hollering or showing extreme pain we didn't think it to be broken, maybe just bruised. We iced it and gave her pain medication and went home. Aunt Dori told us that we could of course take her the the ER or just wait overnight and see how the arm looks in the morning.
The next day, her arm was swollen right above her elbow and did NOT want to move it at all! I knew something wasn't right at that point and scheduled an appointment with her pediatrician to take a look and get some xrays. We went in and of course, it was broken!!!! It was a very tiny tiny fracture and because neither Rickey or I have ever broken a bone we did not know what to look for or expect other than a bone popped out of place which is what most people think a broken bone would look like. Since her brake was not like that, it was definitely a shock to hear it was indeed broken.
We got a splint cast put on that day and the very next morning she was an orthopedic specialist and got a cast for 3 weeks. She did ask first thing if she could get a pink cast, after all, injured or not one Must be stylish at all times right?!? She was such a brave girl and went through the whole experience like a trooper!
She just got the cast taken off last week on friday, so she's slowly getting full mobility back to her arm (it was stiff from being in the same position for 3 weeks) but she doesn't miss having the cast at all.
This was definitely a new experience for all of us because like I said before, neither Rickey nor I had ever broken a bone so she was the first in our family to have broken a bone. I'm glad her arm is healed and can't wait for her to get back on the soccer field and on the monkey bars, as she has to wait 3 more weeks before doing those types of activities.
Here she was with her cousin Ryen doing one of the activities at the museum before the big brake :(
Getting the splint cast, what a trooper with a smile on her face!!!
After getting the pink cast on, still all smiles :))
She has the BEST abuelita who sent her a "care package" as soon as she found out her arm was broken! <3
Picture Day in school, cast and all, still styiin'!
FINALLY getting the cast removed, hooray!
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