Maybe it was inevitable with all the climbing Selena does, but it finally resulted in a broken bone. Her and Allie were climbing on top of the dresser and jumping onto the bed. Selena slipped and fell and hurt her arm. It was almost bed time and she was in pain, but there was no visible signs of injury so we went to bed.
The next day I kept her home from school and was trying to decide if it was broken or not and I made her a homemade sling to keep it propped. I called the nurse line towards the end of the day and she said it was probably okay to monitor it for another day. The problem is, we only have catastrophic health insurance so every doctor visit we pay out of pocket. While we do get the insurance adjusted rates, they are still unreasonably high. We really didn't want to pay $500 to be told it was a sprain and to ice and elevate.
The next day she said it felt better so I sent her off to school in her homemade sling. Oops, talk about bad parenting. :S When she got home it was noticeably swollen so we took her to an urgent care clinic in which they x-rayed and confirmed that it was indeed broken. They said it was a buckle fracture.
She got a purple cast that she wore for 4 weeks, and she just got it off and so she seems to be good as new. Though she didn't really stop monkeying around. I'd still catch her climbing on top of stuff and swinging from her one good arm.
When my mom asked if she learned anything from the experience, she couldn't think of one thing. When the nurse asked her how she broke it and Selena said she fell off her dresser.
The nurse said, "Dresser?".
Allie piped up and said, "It is really fun to climb on top of the dresser and jump on to the bed."
The nurse said, "So you probably won't be doing that any more?"
They both looked at her like she was crazy, and did she not hear the part about it being really fun.
So hopefully we won't have to deal with any more broken bones, now that we got this one out of the way.
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