A trip tp the E.R.

Well, I always thought it would be one of my boys that caused trips to the emergency room. But so far it has been my sweet little Samantha. First time was about 3 years ago when Samantha broke her leg when she went down the slide with mommy. CRAZY way to break a leg!! And most recently (Saturday evening) we were at some friends house and the kids were playing on the top bunk. They have a rope hanging from the ceiling right next to the bed. The kids love to get on top of the bed and tarzan down the rope. Well, Samantha was up on the rope and Jonathan said she was in his face so he pushed her. And down she went from the top bunk onto the floor. I was holding Ian who just got hurt himself and was still crying. (He has a nice little bruise on his cheek) My friend came into the room with Samantha screaming. Of course right away I ask if she can move her arm and she tells me NO. I don't know if she is just being dramatic (girls can be sooooo dramatic). We waited about an hour. We wanted her to calm down and see what she said. She stopped crying but said she couldn't move her arm. So we decided we needed to take her to the ER. Patrick went home with the boys and I took Samantha up to Cook Childrens Hospital. We did not have to wait 1 second. (Great timing, huh!!) We got right back and got x-rays. The dr. came in and just looked at her elbow and could tell it was broken. The x-rays showed that it broke in 2 different places and said they would need to put pins in. Within maybe 20 minutes Samantha got her IV and we were headed up to surgury. Thank goodness Cooks is an awesome hospital, with the best orthopetic surgens you can find. I was totally confident in them and was not worried. Everything went well and she got to spend the night in the hospital. Thankfully we were able to leave around 9:30am Sunday. She has been a real trooper. She has not complained of being in pain hardly at all. I have only given her motrin a couple of times. She has to have the cast on for about 3 weeks. So she will either start kindergarten with a cast or will have the cast off just a day or two before. She will have one stiff arm for starting school.
Jonathan did feel bad. He had quite a run of some bad luck. About 30 minutes after he caused Samantha's broken arm, he pulled a shelf off my friends wall and broke a sno-globe. (What a night that was) Then Monday evening he was playing around on the couch and who knows what happened exactly, but he broke the curtain rode. Patrick was able to bend things back together and get it hung back up. Hopefully Jonathan is done with his string of terror!!! Today he has been exceptionally sweet and polite. I will get a picture of Samantha with her cast and post it later.