Abbi Broke Her Arm!

So on Tuesday, March 7th, I took Abbi to basketball at 7:00am. It was her first week starting the early morning basketball practises. Anyways, I dropped her off and came back home and got ready to go on the bus. After driving my bus route, I got home and the phone rang. It was a sub teacher telling me that Abbi fell on the playground and hurt herself. She told me that she thinks Abbi is ok. I asked if Abbi was crying (I was confused why Abbi wasn't talking to me) and she said yes. So I told her I'd be right there. She was a bit surprised. I told her that Abbi is tough and wouldn't be crying if it was nothing. I was taking her to the hospital. I got there and ran in and got her. The poor girl was sobbing and couldn't move her arm. It was freezing out and I was trying to wrap her coat around her and not jiggle her arm. We got in the car and headed straight for the Raymond Hospital.

Abbi kept telling me to turn around that she was fine....as tears are going down her face. She kept saying, "It's fine mom, my arms not broken." I just smiled and told her we were just going to have the doctor take a look at her arm. She agreed!! Ha ha!!

So we got there and they sent her straight in to get an x-ray. As soon as the doctor looked at the x-ray, he told her that she did a good job at breaking her arm. She broke both bones across the wrist. So they put a cast on her arm and then cut it down both sides for a splint for a few days. That way when it would swell there would be room. So home we went.

The two bones were broken on the wrist....you can see a bump and a faint line across.

Waiting to get the x-ray. She was trying to be so brave, but she was in a lot of pain.

Getting her cast on!!

She was in pain and I made her lay down for the rest of the day. I gave her some Tylenol to help. It was painful for the first few days until she finally got a real cast on. Then it felt so much better. Then she just started complaining about the itchiness. Ha ha!!

She had her cast on for 6 weeks. She was so ready to get it off. So excited. It was just in time too. Cause we went on a little holiday where we went swimming at the hotel. So it was perfect! Plus she was just starting softball too. So that worked out perfect too.

She started playing softball and was doing so good. She loves playing softball and she's pretty good at it too. I love watching and cheering for her. It's always fun! Well then on a Monday, she was playing against a Raymond team. Abbi came up to bat and hit and started running so fast to first base. She kind of looked behind her and ended up tripping over first base. She went flying and landed on her arm. She jumped up and yelled, "I'M OK!" Kind of made me chuckle and then I realized that she wasn't. So I went into the dugout and sure enough she was in pain. So we went home. We iced it and wrapped it and she went to bed. She complained about it a few times during the week. We had it wrapped and she said that helped. Then she went to go play softball the next Monday. She stayed home on the Wednesday. She told me that her arm felt fine and really wanted to play softball on Monday. So she went and played and actually played really good. Afterwards, she cried all the way home. Sheesh, I felt so bad. So I took her to the Doctor the next day. We went in and he sent us for another x-ray. Sure enough it was broken. Same bones. He thinks it wasn't fully healed to begin with. So she got another cast. Poor girl! She wasn't very happy so we went into Lethbridge afterwards, to cheer her up!!

And getting her 2nd cast on!! Ha ha!

We couldn't believe that it was broken again! Sheesh!

I bought Abbi some colorful felts to decorate her cast with!!

Well then, 2 weeks later, I got a phone call from Dr. Bourne. He said that the specialist got a hold of him and said that he was worried about the bones. They weren't healing properly. He thought it would be more beneficial to get fitted for brace and wear that. So we went back in and got the cast off and went straight into Lethbridge to get fitted for her brace. It was worked out good. It's fitted just for her and is hard like a cast, but she can take it on and off easily. She's feeling so much better.

Getting her 2nd cast cut off!!

We were laughing at her tan line!! She was being extra careful with her arm!

And there's her new brace. It works perfectly!!