What a lovely time we had over Memorial Day weekend! Right up to the point where Josie broke her arm! She was riding Lindsay's bike--which has training wheels--and she 'forgot' how to use the breaks. Panicking as she picked up speed going downhill on our sidewalk, she lifted her legs off the bike and they both fell over. She had scraped her knee, so Jim carried her inside and we bandaged her up. What a fuss she was making, though, over a little scrape on the knee. Then she said she'd hurt her arm, too, but we didn't see a scrape. We sat her in the recliner for a while with a pillow under it, assuming she'd just calm down and be okay. But man, that girl wouldn't stop crying and saying, "It hurts! My arm hurts!" So I go over and ask where it hurts: the inside of the elbow. I'm poking and prodding and squeezing it, trying to feel for a bone sticking out or something. I can't feel anything. (As if I know what I'm doing--actually, I only ended up hurting her arm even more! Duh!) Finally, Jim and I decide that she needs to go to the emergency-care clinic. He brings her home with x-rays and a splint on her arm (wrapped in Ace bandages) and a sling! A few days later, an orthopedic pediatrician decides that, since it's a small break and she's so young, it'll heal quickly enough in the splint... rather than putting a cast on it. So the good news is she only has to have it (in theory) for two weeks; the bad news is, the pools in Lincoln all opened right when she had this happen, so she'll miss the first two weeks of swimming! Bummer! It's been hot enough, but I've managed to keep them occupied for one of those weeks.... I've got five more days to think up alternate activities, then hopefully we'll be pool-bound!
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