No name calling but we do have a broken bone! Friday afternoon baby Isabelle tried to fly off her changing table but gravity won out. I think she probably hit the shelf of the table when she fell down and hit it hard enough to break her right femur! She sure was upset when it happened!! But after about an hour she calmed down and we even managed to get her to sleep. We knew she wasn't feeling so well but since she wasn't crying anymore and even ate food and napped...we figure she'd be fine. So a few hours later when DH noticed she was crying when he moved her legs, we decided it was hospital time. They took the xrays, which was horrible. (Of course - she had a broken leg and it hurt when we stretched it out to xray!!) and did a CT scan to make sure her brain was ok from the fall. (It is OK!) When they figured out it was broken they sent us to Children's Hospital by ambulance to get her taken care of. Poor baby did NOT like that at all! She had to be strapped to a stretcher and all she wanted was momma to hold her. At Children's, they did another Xray and had to get an IV in her poor arms to give her medicine and just in case she would need surgery. It took SIX tries to get the IV in and by the last try she had pretty much given up and fell asleep through the pain. They gave her some morphine and after a 30 min nap she was awake and loopy. lol Next the Ortho put a big heavy cast on her leg. So by 3am we were finished and ready to go home. We had to take a cab back to the first hospital to get the car and were home by around 4am. She was LOOPY! She kept humming. lol So now, a few days later we're dealing with the big cast that cant' be wet, definitely can't be bumped and a baby who needs to be held a lot. She's worst at night I think her leg hurts from being dangly all day. Tylonal only does so much. We go back on Friday to make sure it's looking ok and then hopefully in 4-5 weeks she'll get it off. I would gladly take a broken leg to spare her!!
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