Big Ouchies
February 6th, 2010. (20 months old.) by benToday I had my first visit to the hospital emergency room. I got this cool bracelet souvenir!
I got a case of “Nursemaid’s elbow” when I tried to pick up a dirty candy wrapper in the street, but Daddy wouldn’t let go of my hand. It was really ouchie, and it took M&D a while to figure out what was wrong because I couldn’t sign “ouchie” (Ed. Note: the ouchie sign takes two hands). All is well now, as Dr. Mark fixed me right up. He must have read the Wikipedia entry, because this is just what he did to fix my ouchie elbow.
Too bad M&D didn’t buy the extended warranty when they brought me home from the hospital, or this might have been a lot less expensive. At least Dr. Mark at the ER was kind enough to show M&D how to fix my arm if it happens again.
My favorite part of the whole visit was getting to see an ambulance up close! There was one parked outside the ER as we were leaving, and the driver was really friendly!
Poor Ben & poor Wil! Dad must feel really bad. I showed this entry to June & Oliver to remind them how careful they need to be with babies. Hope Ben is feeling good tonight.
As Ben get’s more active, I’m sure that you will become more familiar with the emergency room. His dad was a regular visitar to Hoag and Children’s hospital for a while. This is something I had never heard of. I’m sure that Wil didn’t realize it was so easy to hurt Ben as well. I guess little Ben isn’t as tough as we thought he was.
I don’t feel too bad. I didn’t tug on his arm or anything. It was all just Ben leaning down – I just held his hand where it was to keep him from reaching the ground with the other hand. But the way he was stretching for it with his arm bearing a lot of weight and fully extended apparently was enough to cause the dislocation. I didn’t even realized anything was really wrong until I’d carried him home and the crying persisted past what was reasonable for ‘I didn’t get the wrapper I wanted’, and he was holding his hurt arm with the good one. At that point, Jen was there to make the diagnosis.
Hey, guys, this can happen to anyone and now Wil and Jen are very aware of this condition and can show the rest of us how they can fix it! I understand this usually happens to younger children, but it happened to our son, Ryan, when he was 5 years old and in kindergarten. I was just as shocked and dismayed because all I did was remove his jacket by pulling it at the sleeve!( By the way, Don, what other things happened to Wil when he was little? Just kidding!)
OUCH! I was just sharing our nursemaid elbow stories with a friend the other day. It really is incredible how easy this can happen. Mike is very adept at putting those little elbows back in to place. He learned in the ER with Jake and was able to keep Sammi from at least two visits to repair the same. God created such miracles when creating our bodies! Thank goodness for attentive parents! Nice job Jen & Wil!