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[MomofKatie]

Major bones- only one (well, 2- radius and ulna). Right forearm bones, an inch or so below the wrist. Fell while washing windows in the house. OWIE!!

Minor bones- 2 1/2. Right pinkie toe, left next-to-pinkie-toe. And hairline fracture of tip of right middle finger- closed it in a bank vault door. OUCH!!

 

[indimom]

And isn't that a frightening experience? On the Friday before Mother's Day, at the babysitter's when she was about seven, DD#1 was riding standing up on the back of a Big Wheel on the street (cul de sac) when the "driver" made a very sharp turn. DD fell off and the other girl ran over DD's hand. Babysitter called me immediately, I left work to take DD to the hospital, only to be "invited" to leave the room while DD told the ER doctor what happened. At first she was reluctant, which didn't look good for me, then she finally confessed that she was embarrassed to have been riding a Big Wheel and doubly embarrassed to have fallen off!

Turns out she had broken the bottom bone (closest to the hand) on her two middle fingers and all four knuckles across her hand! They set the fingers and did what they could for her knuckles and put her in a cast from the tips of her fingers up to her elbow.

We went home and I suggested that she go in her room and have a little rest before dinner. She agreed, and promptly tripped on a coat hanger she had left on the floor and fell face-first into a textured wall in her bedroom. She came out crying, bloody from hairline to chin, with a special emphasis on her nose. She was supposed to go to the dentist the next day; I called and cancelled. I didn't want to end up in jail.

DD was tidied up enough to go to school on Monday (and she wanted to show off her cast). Unfortunately, the school playground was surrounded by poison ivy (there was a barrier, but DD breached it). She came home covered from head to toe, even inside her cast. I gave her a bath in Aveeno and covered her with calamine lotion. We both stayed home the rest of the week. (My sweet boss didn't charge me vacation time - he said he was sure this was no vacation!) She couldn't get in the pool all summer and she had a funny tan.

It's been almost 40 years ago, and I still remember the chill I got when the Dr. asked me to leave the room. Child abuse was becoming a more prominent issue right about that time, and while I knew DD wouldn't lie about what happened, I wasn't sure she'd say anything, and if she did, whether the Dr. would believe her. Thank goodness the babysitter witnessed the accident and could swear that I was at work!

Long story just to tell you I knew how you must have felt!

Queen Colleen

I had two of those experiences.
First, when DS was a baby (around 15 months or so), he was in followup for pneumonia and was going back for chest x-rays monthly. He crawled up on his sisters bed (just a mattress, on plywood, on a metal bed frame, so very low to the ground). He slid off and his back scraped down the corner of the metal frame from waist to shoulder blade across his back. It looked like someone had whipped him. I took him in for the x-ray and was questioned by the tech, a nurse, and the doctor. I'm pretty sure they compared notes on my answer outside my line of site. You could just tell it wasn't a casual question like "Ohhh, poor baby, what happened?"

Same thing when DD broke her nose at 10. Every single staff member asked her, not me, how it happened.
Of course, that time, I was the bad mom... for letting her ride her bike without her helmet on. I got grilled by no less than five hospital employees including the receptionist and was sent home with a new bike helmet (even though she had one). Bad mom, Bad mom.

 

[Pooh67_68]

1 - my right arm, the bone broke in half and bowed.