A night at the baseball game and Ronnee breaks her arm!

We got invited to go to the baseball game with Jessie and Juan. We got there super early and poor Jessie is pregnant so it was a little hot a miserable while waiting for the game to start!   But after the game started it was a fun time until Ronnee fell. Tyler took them back to the playground to play for a little bit and brought them back because Ronnee was somehow knocked off the taller part of the playground ( to many big kids on a playground meant for little ones)  She was crying and holding her Right arm so I held her for little bit and she wasn't really calming down. I decided to go with my mom gut and take her to the EMTs  to check her out. They checked her out and twisted her arm but decided it was probably fine, so I went back to sit with everyone and then Ronnee just passed out! Probably from the pain!  Then I noticed her arm by her elbow was so swollen, like nearly the size of a baseball!
 So I took her back to the EMT's and they said something was obviously wrong. ( I feel bad now but I should have had them at least put her arm in a sling for the car ride to the Emergency room!) So we loaded up the car and headed to the ER. Tyler dropped her and I off and he went and took Jessie and Juan back to there car and then later he and Cutler joined us.   The UNM ER was so nice because they actually have a pediatric ER so we didn't have to wait in the waiting room with all the crazy drunk and homeless people!  We got back pretty quick and Ronnee was a champ! She has such a high pain tolerance and was just laying on the gerny and not even crying. The nurses asked if we gave her anything and I said no and they were so surprised at how well she was handling things. It was so sad to see her just laying there!  They quickly gave her some pain med and she passed out again until they took her back to x-rays!
 They told me that she would be super uncomfortable while they did the x-rays because of where the break was. They had to get weird angles and mover her arm around! OUCH!   But once again she was a champ!  After x-rays they got us into a room and Tyler and Cutler were able to join us! Thanks heavens because Cutler brought some comic relief and Tyler was there to help comfort our little injured girl! So the x-rays confirmed that it was indeed broke and right up by the elbow. So they told us that most likely it could only be fixed with surgery but they would try and fix it without surgery. That involved them knocking her all the way out to where she looked dead... it was freaky so cutler and I hung out outside!  Once she was knocked out they used a machine to pull on her arm and try and get it back into place! OUCH!  Well sadly that was not successful! So they wrapped her arm up and scheduled her surgery for Tuesday morning and we went home!
Monday she slept all day! Thankfully Mimi could come down and hang with Cutler while we took Ronnee to surgery! It was a little nerve racking sending my baby into surgery but she was so brave! She didn't want to talk about it at all and just kept a straight face. They took us back there to pre op and we were put in a room with a horse on the door which made her happy!   They put her in the cutest little scrubs that were huge on her and then they her some drugs to relax her and she became very entertaining! Haha she was so chatty and was saying her name was Lazy and then grabbed her crotch and said she was protecting her Coo Coo! Hahaha   I reminder her she had panties on!   Then the nurses came and wheeled her back and we went to the waiting room!
The surgery seemed like it took FOREVER!  But when the doc finally came out and talked to us she said the surgery went good. Instead of having to cut her up and fix her arm they were able to push a wire through her skin and twist the bone back into place!  Sound horribly painful but less evasive then cutting her open!    They then took us back to our sleeping girl with a nice black cast! The nurses and docs were shocked when she picked black and kept asking why she didn't want pink! Haha She would just say her favorite color is black!
When she finally woke up we went home and on the way home she was asking if she could go to the park because she had a hard cast on!  Seriously kids are crazy!    And when we got home she got on her scooter and took it for a little spin around the driveway!  She is crazy and we were so happy for that! They told us she would be in some pain and gave us a couple of prescriptions and in true Ronnee form was fine and never complained of pain. We did give some of the drug that they said would make her sleepy so we could get some rest and of course it had the opposite affect on her and she was wild!  No more of that crap!  
She was doing so good that we were able to head to Sj on Friday to go to the Fair!!!
Pics to come!

Ronnee only had her cast on for 3 weeks! We went back 3 times to get a new cast and to get x-rays. Her body over produced bone and so she can't twist her arm which hasn't slowed her down. It is either that or her bones grew together. Either way there is a chance that later on in life she will need surgery to help that but my mommy instincts feels that she will be fine! She does so good as it is and it isnt affecting her at all!
I should add that it was her right arm and because she is right handed she had to learn to use her left! haha Even after the cast was off she still would prefer her left for a while! She also stopped biting her nails because with the cast she couldn't reach them!

Funny story~ When we would go to the doc they would have her try and touch her shoulder to see how far she could bend it. The first time they asked her to touch her should she used her other hand! Haha I think she just wanted to get out of there so she was like "see i can touch it!"  Haha she hated going in there and would get super quiet and nervous!  So glad we are done with that for now!