The hospital experience with Halle was quite the traumatic one. I can't say I blame her, she sure went through a lot, but I just couldn't believe the fight she put up for three hours straight. Every time a doctor or nurse walked into our room she would start hysterically screaming. She did not want ANYONE touching her other than me or Cory. The doctors and nurses figured it out real quick and would kind of peek their heads in before coming in our room but it didn't matter, the sight of a stranger was enough to put her into a tailspin! Thinking back to the X rays, the experience was kind of funny actually. The doctors had me take her by myself to the X ray room and asked me to hold and keep her still...ummm, yeah right! After about a ten seconds they realized this was not going to happen so they brought Cory in to help me. It took both of us holding her down kicking and screaming to get the X rays, and we had to redo one because she was still moving too much! You'd think two adults could get a 14 month old to hold still but it wasn't an easy task.
When we were at the ER they molded a splint for her arm out of some fiberglass stuff, then put the splint on and wrapped it. They sent me to an Orthopedic surgeon to have it casted on Wednesday, but he ended up telling me he thought that because she is so young it will heal really fast and that we can just keep the splint on for the next couple weeks instead, then take her back in and they will re Xray and if everything has healed fine we will be able to take it off. The splint cast is really pretty sturdy so I decided I was okay with this, it is nice because we can take it off to bath her and then put it back on. But at the same time I kind of wish I would have put my foot down for a real cast because every time she falls I cringe hoping that she didn't knock it too hard. Maybe the splint is just as sturdy as the cast would have been anyway, but I still worry, especially when it seems to hurt her.
It's funny because the cast/splint is so big that whenever people see her with it they say it's just about as big as she is! It took her a couple days to get used to the extra weight of it and she kept getting off balance and falling. Not the easiest thing dealing with a 14 month of with a cast but we are surviving!
I wish I could say the broken arm has slowed her down but that just isn't the case! She is going a million miles an hour and I am constantly worried she will fall and jolt it hard and make it worse!
The first couple days with Halle and the broken arm were hard. This second picture is actually Sunday night. We had a Halloween party but poor Halle wasn't doing the greatest as you can see! She has gotten a lot happier now. After a couple days the pain seemed to be close to gone and she was back to her normal happy self.
There is no slowing this girl down! She's as active as ever cruising all around the house and tries to keep up with Luke in everything he does. Every time she falls I cringe and just hope it hasn't caused further damage! She has also found some "creative" ways of making use of her cast like banging it against the edge of the highchair tray when she is done eating to let me know she wants out, using it to smash up her food (of course getting the bandaging all yucky), and I've also caught her using it as a weapon against Luke! Oh and watching her try to pick up a little piece of food or something with the fingers that are barely sticking out of the cast and all the concentration she puts into it when it usually just ends up dropping on the floor is really just kind of sad, but you can't help but laugh a little at how cute it is that she keeps trying!
