Norah News: Broken Arm

This post is a little delayed, since I was in Paris last week... more on that, and how Matt and the kids fared later.  This post is about what happened BEFORE I left...

The Wednesday before I was to leave, Norah and Roddie were playing in the living room.  He was sitting on the sofa and she was hugging him/smothering him and trying to join him.  She fell off the sofa, as she has many times before and hurt her wrist, cried, and asked for ice - a near daily occurrence for some appendage or other, so we didn't think much of it.  Her arm didn't swell and she really didn't complainn about it much, though we did notice her favoring the other arm, and occasionally she'd say "Actually Mom, I can't do that because my arm is sore"  Matt has been dealing with some back issues over the past few months and we kind of assumed she was copying him.  All reports from school were that she seemed fine.  Still we were a little uncertain.

Friday evening, she went to pick up a puzzle piece on the floor and put some weight on the hand and screamed out in pain.  It swelled, even with ice on it and we knew we'd better have it looked at, stat, before Matt was on his own with the kids for the week.  Here's what we came home with:

The X-ray revealed a "green tree break" meaning more of a bend than a clean break - apparently quite common in young kids, whose bones are still developing.  Norah got a temporary cast (purple, seen above) and a sling to wear until she could see the specialist the next week.  She didn't like the sling, which in fairness really didn't fit her right, so we rigged up a little something to match her outfit, which took the sting out, for a few days at least.  Matt took her to the specialist on Tuesday and she's now sporting a hot pink cast (pink is her new favorite color, alongside purple now, and her outfits must match the cast) 

Here she is telling Nanny all about it, at least for pretend.  She was decidedly not chatty on the real phone!