Oh Man, Round 2!!!!

Poor Alyxis!!!! This was probably one of the worst things a mother can experience with her child, a broken arm. I know some of you who are reading this are thinking, "Didn't Jaden brake his arm too?" and the answer to that question is yes he did. My track record as a mother is not looking that great! Both Jaden and Alyxis broke their arms around 18 months old. Jaden had to be sedated to set his arm back in place, which was horrible!!!! Alyxis on the other hand did not need to be sedated, but the whole situation seemed a lot worse, here is the story......

We were at Grammy and Grandpa's house playing with the cousins. The favorite toy at Grammy's house is (believe it or not) a mattress. They love to jump and play on that thing. It is quite entertaining to watch how much fun they have. They put it on the stairs, jump off of the couch onto it, or find interesting ways to jump on it. Well this particular time, they were jumping off of the coffee table onto the mattress. So you can imagine it is not that high of a drop off. Well, Alyxis is crazy and jumps and plays just like here brother, so she jumped and there it was. We couldn't figure out why she would not stop crying, so we looked her over and she held her arm out and would not move the other one, so we knew something was wrong. We took her to the clinic in Green River and they couldn't get a good x-ray because she was in so much pain. They knew it was broken but they were worried that there was a floating bone fragment in her arm which required surgery, so they sent us to Primary Childrens Hospital to get a Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon to look at it. So we loaded Lyxi up at about 7:00 pm and headed to Salt Lake City. We got there, my mom came with me which I am soooo grateful for (I love you so much MOM, you are the best. Brad was working in North Dakota, so he was a long ways away. Lyxi was in so much pain and I was just a wreck, I cried ALOT. I felt so bad for her. But we get there and eventually they gave her morphine for the pain, which was also horrible because she hated getting the IV in her little hand. But that helped a bunch with her pain. So they took x-rays and found that there was no floating bone fragment but the doctor said it wasn't bad enough to say she for sure did need surgery but it wasn't great enough that she didn't need surgery. So it was a good thing they sent us down there to make sure everything was ok. So the pediatric orthopedic surgeon came in and he was pretty convinced that with time Lyxi's arm would heal correctly and that if that was the case, she would not need surgery. I was sooo relieved to hear that. She had already been through such an ordeal already. She ended up breaking her suprachrondular bone. Which means right above her elbow. They gave her a soft cast for one week and then we had to come back to Salt Lake City and get her hard cast on which she wore for an additional 4 weeks. Her arm did end up healing without needing surgery, which was wonderful!

Alyxis adjusted well to having the cast, and I am so proud of her for being so tough! She was a trooper through it all. It is a whole other story about getting the cast off, but we won't go into that. Let's just say I hope one day we will get a good Doctor in Pinedale!!!! But things went great after the cast came off!


This is Alyxis after they gave her morphine. She giggled a lot and was actually in a decent mood after the pain went away!

Mind you it was about 2:00 in the morning, and yes, I do look pretty scary!

Alyxis playing after like nothing happened. She is one tough cookie!