Oh this girl!

 Brielle's goal in life is it be our most expensive baby! One night while we were skyping with my parents Brielle ran away and the older two went to go get her. She didn't want to come so they were both grabbing her arms and pulling and dragging her to come back and talk. All of a sudden she started screaming really loud and Chad took her upstairs. I kept talking with my parents until the kids called me up because Bri hadn't stopped crying. She wouldn't move her arm and just was holding it and saying owie. We sent our kids to the neighbors house and loaded her up in the car to head to insta care. I JUST had sent her last check to Primary Childrens 1 week before....This is how it always goes! I thought it was maybe broken.

The docs at the insta care didn't seem to confident in fixing it and warned us we might have to go to the ER. (please no!) They x rayed it first before trying anything to make sure it wasn't broken. She screamed super loud. All of a sudden she stopped. And when they came out of the room she was moving it all around with no problems. The xray tech must have popped it back in while moving it around taking shots.  Your elbow can partially dislocate and its called nurse maids elbow.


Fast forward 1 week and its PJ time and I'm trying to get Bri in jammies. Chad is gone at a Jazz game and I'm juggling all 4 kids at bed time. Brielle gets up to run and instinctively I reach out and grab her arm...POP! I knew immediately what was wrong. Again the kids went to the neighbors and I went to a different doc who runs a PM pediatrics. A LIFE SAVER!

They were really great with her and popped it back in in seconds. No x rays, no questions, and they gave her some ibuprofen immediately and a little sling to help stablalize and strengthen her elbow.

 I sure felt awful but in no time she was smiling and happy again. Of course it all happened right before we were to head to Idaho for Thanksgiving.

 

We made it to my parents and she wore the sling more like a cape most of the time but I kept it on her to help remind us not to pull on her arms. Its amazing how much you do pull on your kids arms without realizing it...helping them up the stairs, pulling them up after a diaper change, picking them up, catching them when they run away! So many times in the day but I had to quickly break the habit.

The doctor told me once it happens it is more likely to happen again so its important it gets some rest and get strong again. So we have been trying to be really careful with her. I don't want to go through that again! She sure is a tough little turkey but man has she grown to hate doctors! She's seen quite a few in traumatic circumstances in her short life. Poor sweet thing!