Emergency Room Visit

On Friday when we picked Charlotte up from school they said that she had fallen on her bum and been inconsolable since.  We thought maybe she was teething?  When I got her in to the tub, I noticed she wasn't really using her left arm, but she was calm and acting normal otherwise.

She went to bed and slept through the night without incident.

In the morning, I knew something was wrong when we handed her a cup of milk and she couldn't reach for it with both hands.

I immediately call her pediatrician and am told to hold the line for a dr.  That has never happened.  Usually they call us back.  We were told to head to the emergency room NOW.

Once we got to the waiting room, the nurse told us there is something called "nursemaids elbow" where the elbow pops out of alignment (allegedly from being dragged around by the nanny) and with some manipulation it can be put back in place.

Baby girl was not happy.

Daddy makes it all better.

To rule out anything else going on, they took some xrays. I could hear her screaming from down the hall.  Poor thing.

The xrays all came back normal and when they tried to manipulate her arm, it didn't help anything.  she still wouldn't move it.  So they put it in a cast and referred us to an orthopedic surgeon.  She was adorable in her dinosaur sling...