Wednesday, November 3, 2010

You guessed it!!

I guess that the third time is the charm when it comes to broken arms. After waiting overnight to find out about Mckinley's hurt arm, we got a call the next day telling us that the radiology Dr. did think there was a break somewhere near her elbow joint. Unfortunately, it was Friday and we couldn't get into the Orthopedic Dr. until Monday evening and so poor Mckinley was in quite a bit of pain for a lot of the weekend. (Halloween weekend even!)
When we did have her appointment with Dr. Delcore, he wasn't fully convinced that she had a fracture because they never were able to see it on the x-ray. I just kept hoping that it would just be a bad bruise or something, but after checking her arm out very carefully, he found that she had broken the bottom part of her Humerus. He also told me that 19 out of 20 times they have to place a pin in the bone because gravity pulls the injured part of the bone into the elbow joint. However, he said that we might be the lucky 1 out of 20 because hers was looking very stable, so please cross your fingers for us. She has to have it checked again in a couple of weeks to make sure we don't have to have a pin put in.
She now has a bright pink cast, and she is feeling so much better with it stabilized. She's just about back to her normal self.

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