Alona went to her girl scout troop meeting on Friday a little after three o'clock. I went to go pick her up a little before 5:00. She was sitting in a chair, I was told that she got hurt on a trampoline. All the girls had been jumping on a trampoline that was a neighbor to the troop leader. Talking about Alona's ankle, it was mentioned that when she was asked if she wanted to feed the hampsters that she went running across the room to feed them. So when we went out to the car I thought that she was over reacting, getting home her brother and sister were teasing her about tickling something else to make her forget about her ankle.
After we were home and the kids and I were trying to distract her and get her to forget her ankle is when I saw her ankle and then realized that she was really hurt, and I felt bad that I had taken it so lightly. Talking to Paul about hurt ankles, he had copied and pasted an article about broken and sprained ankles. Whether they were, swollen, discolored hot or warm. Alona's ankle was the size of a baseball and was turning blue and purple and was also a different temperature than the rest of her skin. We were able to get to the after hours clinic at her pediatricians office, without her sister and brothers thanks to Jeremiah and Mandy. Then we got orders to get an x-ray at UVRMC, after the x-rays we were sent back to the dr. to get a hard splint which was wrapped in an ace bandage and velcroed into a shoe. We were given a copy of the x-ray and were told to talk to a specialist on Monday. the ankle was too swollen to tell if the growth plate was fractured, so a specialist gets to look at it and we were also given a recommendation to repeat the x-rays in one week.
After we were home and the kids and I were trying to distract her and get her to forget her ankle is when I saw her ankle and then realized that she was really hurt, and I felt bad that I had taken it so lightly. Talking to Paul about hurt ankles, he had copied and pasted an article about broken and sprained ankles. Whether they were, swollen, discolored hot or warm. Alona's ankle was the size of a baseball and was turning blue and purple and was also a different temperature than the rest of her skin. We were able to get to the after hours clinic at her pediatricians office, without her sister and brothers thanks to Jeremiah and Mandy. Then we got orders to get an x-ray at UVRMC, after the x-rays we were sent back to the dr. to get a hard splint which was wrapped in an ace bandage and velcroed into a shoe. We were given a copy of the x-ray and were told to talk to a specialist on Monday. the ankle was too swollen to tell if the growth plate was fractured, so a specialist gets to look at it and we were also given a recommendation to repeat the x-rays in one week.
2 comments:
Oh my goodness. What a painful oweee! Hopefully there won't be long term effects. Not fair that trampolines can be so dangerous when children have so much fun on them.
Just another reason why living closer would be such a blessing.
Hugs to all.
OH WOW! I didn't see the before picture! That was pretty big!
She's such a cute girl. :) Let us know if you need us to watch the kids for the followup or anything like that. :)
Loves!
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