Third times a charm??

March 7, 2010

CAUTION: IF YOU HAVE A WEAK TUMMY, THIS MAY NOT BE FOR YOU!

Considering the fact that both Jaden and Lexie had each broken one of their legs by the time they were 2, Travis and I were feeling pretty confident when Chloe hit 5 and was still broken bone free. On Sunday, June 7, after finishing up a week of State Basketball over in Boise, we decided to head over to Melba to see my grandpa before we came home. We had had a wonderful visit and were just wrapping things up, Travis had even told the kids to get their shoes on it was time to leave. Not 2 minutes later, Lexie came blazing around the house, screaming in the most horrific voice I have ever heard! Travis went flying out the door, and rounded the house only to see a very pale, stunned Chloe walking towards him with a dangling arm...it was probably the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed. It turns out that Chloe had been playing out on the trapeze bar on the swing set. She was upside down and scared and let go hands first. The way her arm bent to protect her head snapped both bones clear through, therefore, her armed just dangled. She sat on my lap all the way into the closest hospital, which happened to be a 30 minute drive, and she never cried on bit. I kept waiting for her to pass out, or throw up or something, but nothing...she was in complete and total shock! Her eyes were rolling, her head was bobbling and the only thing she was worried about was not being able to do gymnastics and perform in her dance recital. The hospital visit took a good 4 hours from start to finish; too many non-emergent patients, and too few nurses and Doctors. We spent over an hour just waiting for pain meds and then another 2 hours waiting for the orthopedic surgeon to reset her arm. As we were trying to wake her up from her "la la" juice (they knocked her out while they set her arm...thankgoodness), she was all sorts of crazy! Poor Chloe kept telling me that I was scaring her, I had three eye's and she really just wanted her "real" mom back. At this point I had to cover her eyes and just let her hear my voice. Needless to say, EVERYONE got a good laugh at her.

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