Attanaseo Family: Loren's Broken Arm

Saturday May 16th we were at our neighbor, Joy's wedding. Loren had been looking forward to the wedding all day! She got a new dress and was just so excited to dance and play with Addy! We even did her nails and she got to wear one of my necklaces! She felt so beautiful! We were at the wedding and she was having a lot of fun dancing with the other kids when (while we didn't actually see the event, this is what she described happened)...some kids were running around crazy and ran into her and she fell on her arm. She started SCREAMING! Luckily our neighbor's daughter, Amanda was near and she got me to help Loren. Loren continued to cry for a good 20+ minutes (dozing off in my lap as well). We finally decided to just take her home because she was so tired. We didn't really think anything was majorly wrong with her, we just thought she was overtired. We got home (she fell asleep in the car), but woke up when we tried to get her inside. It took a long time (over an hour) to get her to sleep because her arm hurt and she also had blisters on her feet from her shoes. Again, we just thought she was overtired. She was up a few times that night crying about her arm hurting.

In the morning she seemed ok with the arm. She continued to self-immobilize it, but could move her elbow and stuff. Even Joe's mom didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Until later in the day she tried to pick up a piece of wood and couldn't and burst into tears! So finally at about 8pm I left and took her to the hospital. There they did an x-ray and sure enough, it was broken. You could see it clear as day. They put on a temporary cast. Monday 5/18 we went to the orthopedic and he put on the regular cast. He said it was a "buckle break" and it's a clean break so it should heal nicely! So that's good! It also is a half cast, so it's just up to her elbow, which means she can still bend and unbend her elbow! Loren picked a pink color for her cast and was able to get a waterproof one (which is good so she can continue swim lessons and take a normal bath and everything). She's been doing really good with the cast, figuring out how to use her left hand to write (she's surprisingly good at writing with her left hand), and creating other ways of doing things. She'll have the cast on for 3 weeks then they will take it off and put another one back on (he said they change it after 3 weeks because they get gross)! So a total of 6 weeks and then she should be done! So that's good!!

Here are some pictures: