Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Macie's X-ray

For over a year now, Macie has had some pain in her left arm. If she falls on it or yanks away from us when we are holding her hand, she instantly starts screaming. She often won't move the arm for a period of time. Eventually, everything will go back to normal. We asked Dr. Voyles about it a while ago and he said that it was something with her elbow. It is fairly common and as long as it goes back into place, everything is fine.
Yesterday as I was walking Macie to her room for nap time, she jerked away from me. She instantly started crying and saying that her arm hurt. I wasn't sure at first if she was just saying that or if it was truly hurt. (Yes our 2 year old tries to play us from time to time) I gave her a little bit of Tylenol and she cried herself to sleep. She only slept for about 45 minutes and woke up screaming. I went in to get her and she was clearly beside herself. She wouldn't even move her arm and didn't for another 2 hours. I gave her a little more medicine (I hadn't given her a full dose before) and Allie and I tried to comfort her. She screamed forever and finally we were able to calm her down. I called Dr. V's office and they finally called me at 5:00 to say that Macie needed to have an x-ray done to verify nothing major was wrong. As soon as Brian got home, we got everything ready to go. We dropped off Gavin at my parent's house and we went to the CAM building at St. Mary's. I'm glad that I didn't take Macie by myself because Brian reminded me that I couldn't be in the x-ray room. Macie was all pumped to go to the doctor to get a picture taken of her arm. We promised her a treat when she was done. She wasn't so happy inside the room though! I sat outside the room and heard her screaming like I've never heard before!!! The table was huge, Brian was holding her down, and this huge machine was hovering over her. Talk about traumatizing. I felt embarrassed, heartbroken, and guilty that I couldn't be in there with her. The tech showed her the pictures of her bones and she thought that was pretty cool. She told me she was brave, but I knew better. We still rewarded her with some ice cream.
I got a call from the office today and they said everything was normal in the x-ray. I was grateful for that. If it happens again, we have to give her ibuprofen and wait it out. FUN FUN!

3 comments:

CJM said...

Did they call it Nursemaid's elbow or something like that? My friend's little girl had it, and our other friend who is a nurse practitioner said it was pretty common, but poor Macie :( I hope she feels better soon!!!!

The Mitchell Family said...

Yes, that is what it is. We read online it could happen up to the age of 4...yikes!

CJM said...

Yikes is right! :(