Another Weekend, Another Accident

But at least this one (fortunately) didn't cost us an expensive ER visit.

We got ready for church this morning, left, and Mike buckled Grace into her car seat. She began screaming and screamed the entire way to church. I noticed that she wasn't moving her right arm, but didn't think too much of it. Nothing I did appeased her, though, and I was a bit worried. Mike nervously asked me, "Uh, is she using her right arm?" Apparently, when he was buckling her in, she twisted her arm away, and it made a "popping" noise.

Her arm was limp, and nothing I did made her move it. We got to church and I went to find our Primary President, to tell her I was leaving to take her to the ER, thinking she had dislocated her shoulder. She took her into a room, and examined her, because she's a physical therapist. She thought it was fine, but went to find Brother Jones (he's an orthopaedic surgeon) to be sure. He looked at her for 2 seconds, turned her arm over, bent it, and popped her radial head back in, which had dislocated from her elbow joint. She laughed and ran off, and was completely better. In fact, about a minute later she realized she had the use of both of her hands and ripped out her hairdo (I suppose having your child unable to use her arm DOES have its advantages... her hair was way cute until then).

We were so blessed to have people in our ward willing to help us (and save us the $100 ER visit). He told us that it's a fairly common injury and not to feel bad. She is completely fine, and he told Mike how to fix it in the future, should it ever happen again. It won't. :)