update

I wish I wasn't such a Debbie Downer. It seems that this year has not started off the way we planned. Quick update on the school: I talked to the senior pastor and I would never want Caroline at that school. He told me that he was informed that Caroline would NEVER walk and she had a short life expectancy! And I needed to check my christianity to put my child in harms way and to put other children at the day care at harm. Needless to say, words were said, emails exchanged. Once he was better educated, he said he would talk to Web and I, but he also need to talk to their "doctors". After talking to a very well informed member of the church, they don't have doctors, they have lawyers. She was also not surprised by his behavior. So, not sure what we will do for school for Caroline. We have another private school we are going to try, but if that doesn't work out then I guess we'll look into public schools. Makes me wish we had UNION in OKC.

On another sad note, poor Caroline hurt herself on Thursday, December 30th at 4:45 PM. Needless to say, the ortho office was closed for the long holiday weekend. We took her to the ER 1st thing Friday morning, and sure enough same song and dance. No, they didn't see a fracture. No shizzle. They never see a fracture. So the ER dr was advised by oncall ortho to call our ortho's office 1st thing Monday and do another x-ray. Well that's all fine and dandy, but what are we supposed to do about the pain our daughter is obvious in? So the ER dr. attempted to splint her. And he did try, but later that night Caroline screamed out in agony again. The splint must not have worked, because Caroline was in worst pain than before. I tried to re-splint her but that didn't work out well. Poor thing. I think I traumatized her for life. I tried to straighten her leg and literally she turned cherry red and her eyes popped out of her head. I will never for as long as I live, forget that face and forget the pain I put her in.

Needless to say, we let her immobilize her leg how she wanted and we just let her be. By Saturday morning, Web and I were spent. We couldn't hold our daughter, or change her diaper without causing her pain. Longest, worst weekend ever.

Monday morning, we went to the ortho office, they took x-rays and sure enough, there was a visible fracture, they put her in the one legged full body cast and we were sent home. We have 2 weeks in a cast. I am hopeful that we can still do PAM on Thursday. Once we do the PAM she will for sure start feeling better. Last time we did it, she was in a cast but it was in Omaha where they do PAM treatments all the time. They have access to put an IV in her hand, so I am sure everything will be ok. I mean we do deserve one good, positive break?

So, that was our holiday weekend. Not the best start to 2011. Hoping we can have a do over this weekend.