Our First ER Trip

My boys are all boy and rough housing is very natural for them. With my two boys I have had no doubt that a few emergency room trips would take place at some point in the future. I had no idea that our first one would happen this soon.

Last night I am trying to put both my boys to bed. Neither of them are cooperative because we were babysitting my nieces and nephew. So I have the boys in their room, Thomas in his bed and Luke not in his. They both want a drink so I head downstairs to get a drink for them. I then hear Thomas crying really hard and as I enter the room Luke is hiding under his blanket.

Instantly my reaction is WHAT DID YOU DO? First response from Luke was nothing. As Thomas cries I ask again, what did you do? Then I get the response "I pulled his arm through the bed rails." Thomas will not stop crying and you can not move his arm with out major screams. We go sit on the bed and I try to calm him and figure out if he is going to be OK. Thomas calms down but only if you would hold very still. The moment we moved his arm he would begin to cry again. At this point we new it was time to take a trip to the emergency room. Before we could go we had to wait 15 minutes for my in-laws to show up to get the kids. My mother-in-law stayed at our house so that Luke could stay home and go to bed.

Off we went to the ER of the Children's Hospital. Of course at 9:30 at night it is crazy busy and lots of sick coughing children. Not really where I want to be but we had no choice.

The hospital was great and moved us almost instantly into a room. I was so thankful to be out of the waiting area where I felt like germs were just everywhere begging to make us all sick.

Finally around midnight when the doctor came to see us he said it was probably Nurse Maid elbow, basically Thomas elbow was pulled out of socket. He twisted his are from side to side for about a minute popping it back into place. He left and came back with a Popsicle for Thomas and instantly Thomas held his hurt arm up read to take the popsicle. We were as good as new.

I was so thankful to see it all went OK. Having two boys, I have no doubt this will be my last trip either.