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The first broken bone in our family

We had the 1st broken bone in our family (our kids anyway). Yesterday I went to take Katie to school and the girls jumped in the van. Katie got in the backseat and was trying to rearrange car seats, while Kassi got up on the middle seat. She was hanging her arm over the seat and we are not sure exactly how this happened, but she started crying and said her arm hurt. So I took her to urgent care thinking she had dislocated her elbow, this is very common in little kids; it is called a nurse maid injury.



They took x-rays and tried to pop it back in a few times. She just kept saying it hurt. So the Dr. told me he didn't know what else to do. So he sent us home with a referral to a pediatric orthopedist. We got to see them this morning. They took more x-rays which meant more crying. The Dr. there said that Kassi had broken her elbow in the growth plate area. Then Kassi got to pick a cast color. She picked purple which she calls "boo". "Boo" is her word for blue and the only color word we can get her to say. After screaming for about half an hour the cast was finally finished. She walks around with a big smile and points to her arm and says "boo boo". She is very proud of the cast and a lot happier since the cast immobilized the elbow.