Florida Trip

Well we had an exciting time in Florida, some was good exciting and some not so good. Lets start with the good. The weather was very nice! it was in the 70's or 80's and mostly sunny a little rain. Izzy did fantastic on the flight there, she slept for about an hour and a half, woke up ate, and played and then we landed. On Thursday night she didn't sleep so good in the pack and play she was in our bed by about 11 and woke up for the morning at 5:45 so friday was a little long day but it was fine. Izzy and I went for a walk and went swimming at the hotel while DH was at a lunch meeting with clients. We had a great time just being outside. Friday night we went out to dinner with my brother and he just couldn't get enough of Izzy. She slept much better friday night, slept until about6:30 am all in the pack n play. Saturday was my day with Izzy and my brother since Chris was golfing. It started out great, we checked out of the hotel went and dropped off our stuff an Jared's and then went down to the beach for some lunch. When we first left for the beach it was still kinda cloudy and not super warm since it had thunderstormed over night but as we at lunch (outside :) ) the weather started to really clear up. So i said lets go take Izzy across the street to the beach to see what she thinks. So uncle Jared stayed with our stuff, I took off Izzy's pants and took her down to the water in her onsie and let her stand with her feet getting wet. She LOVED it! Here is where it the trip takes a bit of a turn for the worse....

I was holding izzy's one hand/wrist to keep her from falling in the water and she started to loose her balance and fall, so I instictively pulled up on her hand/wrist to keep her from falling..........then I heard a cracking sound like when a joint cracks and she started crying......well she calmed down and I new she was very very tired because it was about 1:30 and she had no nap yet so i thought well maybe she is just tired, but in my gut i was worried about her arm. Well we go back to the car, she falls right asleep and go back to uncle Jareds and she lays down with me to take a nap. When she woke up she really wasn't moving her arm at all so I told Jared we better take her to the ER! Well 3 hrs later (and thankfully DH was able to meet us there) they have her in a splint because they think it is Nursemaids elbow but the dr didn't hear the elbow go back in and didn't see anything on teh X-rays..........so we leave ER and at this point I am a mess feeling so guilty and it was so horrible when she would scream with teh dr was trying to relocate her elbow...it was AWFUL!!! By the time we left Izzy was starving, and tired but overall considering in a pretty good mood. She slept well that night and the next day we were going home. Well we are at the crazy busy airport in Ft Lauderdale and my brother calls to say the hospital had some information for us. So i call them and they say the radiologist looked at her x-ray(there was no radiologist on call on Saturday) and he saw a fracture at her wrist!!!!! I FREAK OUT, i am balling in the middle of a very overcrowded airport. (keep in mind izzy is fine, she is acting like her normal self and clearly not in any pain but I was so sick over it) So we finally made it home after a very long day, our flight was over an hour and a half delayed and Izzy slept about an hour on the flight but was very squirmy and cranky for the last hour or so. We didn't get home until 8pm, I felt like it was the longest day of my life!!!

So Monday I called the pediatrician and after almost the whole day of tracking down her report from the Florida hospital they got us in the next day with teh Orthopedic dr. We took her yesterday and sure enough she does have a fractured wrist and they had to put her in a cast for 2 weeks!!!! She was moving her arm and her wrist ok after they took off the splint but they put the cast on to protect it because if she were to fall (which as a new walker she does a fair amout of) she could really hurt herself. She really did not enjoy being restrained while the cast was being put on but as soon as the lady was done she was back to her smiley self. She is a little annoyed with it I would say but overall is her normal self.

I am feeling a little better and I am trying to keep the guilt from consuming me because I know i didn't do it on purpose and it was an accident and she is fine. Not in any pain and she will get all better but it is really hard. I laid in bed the first couple of nights and just kept replaying when it happened over and over and over again. It was awful!!!!

Here is picture DH took when we went out to lunch right after it happened. She really was in good mood but looks quite annoyed in the picture. I just think it is too cute!