SO everyone....here is the ltest update on my life!
Most of you may remember that last October DD(14) sprained her thumb at soccer practice...she missed a week of Gym and SOccer.
Than in January she slipped i the shower and sprained her knee....missed a week or so of basketball.
In APril she tore her meniscus at track practice and needed to have surgery and then was in Physical therapy until the middle of July!
Well yesterday, it was an extremely rainy day here. She was at school and was walking into one of the buildings for a class, when she slipped ona wet floor and fell. She reached back with her arms to break the fall, and the nurse called me to say she needed to go to the doctor because she couldn't bend her fingers and had alot of pain in her wrist and hand.
So I went right into Mommy mode, called the doctor's office and talked to a nurse about whether we should come to the doctor or directly to the ER. SHe said bring her right in to our office, we'll have someone look at her right away. So I called DH told him to go get DD (DH works at a hospital directly across the street from the high school) and I would meet them at doctor's office. I was very worried but being a very good mom about handling all this. Well I got into the car and I just started laughing. This is absolutely absurd, that she has had 4 injuries within a year. I could not stop laughing.
So I met them at the doctor's office, where they immediately took her in and checked out her wrist, hand and arm. Doctor said everything felt like it was ok, but did some tests where DD had to close her eyes and then her poked her gently with a paperclip, sometimes with a sharp end and sometimes with the curve of the clip. She was supposed to distinguish which poles were sharp end and which were curved end. Well she couldn't even feel the poes below her elbow, but could feel them and distinguish them above her elbow! SO Dr. called ER and said we're sending her down to you. They took xrays at the ER which show no broken bones. However there is apparently one tiny littel bone called the Scaphoid bone in which a fracture may not show in the first set of xrays. However, it can be one of the most serious injuries and when the did a physical exam of her hand and wrist, the sections where she was feeling intense pain were consistent with this type of injury!

SO they put her hand in what they called a splint, but what I would think of more as a soft cast, and we go to the orthopedist tomorrow for him to do a check. Hopefully it is only a sprain or bruising, but who knows! If it is the Scaphoid, there is surgery followed by a 12-14 week recovery period! That would take her out of the remainder of soccer season and basketball would be out as well!
I told her it is good that she gets most of these injuries at school, or social services would be camping out at our house!
Well, I guess we are all getting used to these injuries... everyone's immediate reaction is "oh are you ok honey?" followed by uncontrollable laughter. DD is even laughing about this through her pain! NSalz laughed as did her DD (my DD's best friend!). SHe did go to soccer practice after the ER yesterday, to watch and learn, even the coach laughed when she saw DD. SHe's getting a reputation!