For those of you who may be out of the loop, the big news around here is that Morgan broke her elbow 2 weeks ago. She fell (or according to Gerard, she JUMPED) off the coffee table and landed just right. When she had cried nonstop for nearly half an hour, I decided I needed to take her to the ER.
After several HOURS, multiple doctors, a bunch of x-rays, and some Tylenol, we learned that she broke and dislocated her left radius. Essentially, she broke a piece of the bone off and it moved. By 2:00 AM they had sedated her and tried to move the bone back in place but were unsuccessful. She'd need surgery.
They discharged us from the ER in a terrible thunderstorm, and about 1/8 mile from my house I drove into a road that had flooded out and my car instantly died. The water was up to my car door. I called my lovely neighbor, Chris, who rescued us in his truck. The next morning I pushed my car out of the water and it started, but everything on the floors had been soaked and ruined. As of yesterday the car still smelled swampy, so I took it to get cleaned and detailed. It still smells a little, but that should disappear soon (hopefully!)....
Morgan's surgery was a few days after her accident.
Here is a short video of Morgan after they gave her some happy drugs to make her relaxed, before they took her into the operating room and gave her the IV:
They put her under general anesthesia and were able to put the bone back in place without any incisions, which was the best-case scenario. She recovered nicely, and has a neon pink cast now.
She is really such a trooper -- she hasn't complained about the cast or her arm at all! Even after she got stung by a bee on her cast hand she cried for a while, her finger swelled up, but then she was fine! What a tough girl!
