Crazy Daizy

At 12:30 last night Hubby and I awoke to the blood curdling screams of Monkey. We both jumped up and ran into her room to find her on the floor. She was shaking and crying uncontrollably. Hubby picked her up and we both tried to calm her down. Finally, after twenty minutes she calmed down enough to tell us what happened. She said that she rolled off the bed and that her shoulder hurt. Hubby looked at her shoulder, mashed around on her arm, and then tried to move it, which was met with much resistance and much screaming. Once she was completely calm we put her back to bed. She was up pretty much until three this morning. At 2:30 she had to go potty, and I took her. She refused to put any weight on her left arm, so I tried to lift her out of the bed, which received more screams. Finally we make it to the bathroom. I put her on the toilet, wait ten minutes, and ask if she is done. She says yes, I say ok, let’s get up, she says no, and I say well, you can’t spend all night on the potty. Finally she agrees to get up, with instructions not to hurt her. She’s now back in bed. Everyone slept until hubby got up for PT at 4:30, once he left I rolled over and went back to sleep. He got home after seven and I started breakfast. Monkey woke up crying so I went to her room. I told her I made french toast she should get up and eat, but she wanted to stay in bed. Then I told her that her daddy wanted to look at her shoulder, to which she replied “Well, he can come in my room.” Hubby went to her room and tried to move her arm, big mistake. We decide we should take her to the emergency room.
Once there, it didn’t take long to get into the triage nurse, who decided that he wouldn’t touch her, after her daddy sent her into fits when he put her on the scale. After that we were taken back to a room. A PA came in and looked at her and had the nerve to try and touch her. She looked him and said “Don’t make me scream.” He said “I just want to look at it, I don’t want you to scream.” He left to order x-rays and then returned to mash on her arm again. A little later the first PA and another PA came in. The new PA asked Monkey to point to where it hurt and she did. Both PA’s looked at her noticing a bruise on her collar bone, so they ordered more x-rays. Then a nurse came in and asked the same questions and then they took her to x-ray. When they took her into the room to do the x-rays, I had to stand outside and I could hear her crying through the door, even though Hubby was in there with her, it almost made me cry. When they let me in she was crying and said “Mommy, help me.” I felt terrible. After a while they took us back to her room and we waited for the news. The nurse came in and told us that her collar bone was broken. They tried to splint it, but the orthopedist didn’t like the way it looked, so they decided to do something else. We were discharged from the ER and sent to orthopedics so she could be fitted for a sling. The nurse fitting her for her sling asked her if she was trying to be a superhero and she said “No, I roll off the bed.” The guy tried not to laugh, and then said “I thought you were safe in your bed.” Hubby laughed and said “She jumps on the bed and the couch and never gets hurt, but she breaks a bone in her sleep.” We’ve given her Tylenol for pain and she took a really good nap. They made an appointment for her for next Tuesday with orthopedics for another set of x-rays. Poor little thing, we both feel so bad for her. She was so brave, when it was all over we stopped and got her chocolate ice cream. We went to the Army hospital and I must say even though we were there four hours, it went must faster than we thought it would and the staff was really good with her.