It's Broken...

Well, we can cross broken bones off of our "first's" list!

Our little Brookie took a spill in our apartment on Monday (we're still working on the how to walk with grace thing!) and landed wrong on her arm. It was really bothering her, but Brian and I assumed she just bruised it pretty good. 2 whole days went by (I am definitely not getting mother of the year award!) and it was still really hurting her. When she tried to put pressure on it getting up, she would just fall down (hello mom, red flag right there!), and when I would take hold of her hand to put her shirt on, she would cry. You would have thought I would have taken her to the hospital sooner, but I really just thought it was badly bruised and would get better after a few days (she is definitely going to hold this one over me when she's older!).

I finally had the team interpreter make her an appointment at the hospital across from our apartment this morning and took her in to get x-rays. That was an experience in itself! The hospital was really nice, but I had a really hard time communicating with the doctors/nurses. It just so happened that none of them spoke much english. Thankfully we have the world's most patient team translator (brian and the team are out of town!) and I just kept calling him a bazillion times giving him the phone to speak to all the doctors!! Brooke was NOT a fan of getting x-rays taken. They made me leave the room, and I could hear her screaming from down the hall. Thankfully they were able to hold her still long enough to get a good one, and sure enough, they found a small fracture in the radius bone in her arm, down close to her wrist. Dang.

Through broken english, the guy looking at her x-rays managed to tell me "yes, broke!" I really thought they were just going to tell me I was being over protective and it was just bruised! Thankfully, it's really not that bad of a fracture and shouldn't take that long to heal. They put her in a temporary cast, and we will meet with the wrist/arm specialist tomorrow. They even put a little "baby" sling around her arm to help hold it up! It was hilarious watching them try to get it on her, only to have her rip it off minutes later! She is handling the whole cast thing pretty good, it doesn't seem to be in her way at all!! Poor thing!! She is such a trooper, a pretty tough girl dealing with a broken arm for 2 1/2 days!!

I owe big, big thank you's to our friend Katie for watching Austin for me while I took Brooke, and to our interpreter Taka, who got me through the whole process! Thanks guys!

I am so sorry Brookie, you are one tough cookie!!!

yes, that's a tear rolling down her cheek!! she was not too happy when they were putting on the temporary cast!

don't ya just want to give her a hug!

lolipops make everything better!

Doing much better now!