Ouch x's 2

Our regular daily schedule is to have lunch around noon and then off to bed for a nap right around 1:PM. Today that is what we did. I put Madi down for bed but Kimber wasn't quite ready to go for a nap yet so she was playing in the living room. While Kimber was playing I thought I would take the full recycle bin out and empty it in the garage. When I got back to the kitchen door Kimber was standing right in the way so I couldn't get in and she was close to the top of the stairs. I picked her up by her left arm and right away she started crying. At first I thought she was just mad that I moved her out of the way but when my attempts to get her to calm down weren't working I knew that there was a little more to it. I went and woke Brett up to tell him that Kimber's arm was hurt and I thought I should take her to the doctor. I wanted to brush my teeth before I left so I had Brett hold Kimber while I went into the bathroom. Just after I put the tooth brush in my mouth I heard Madi scream and cry out really loud so I ran into her room. She was laying on the bed and I noticed that her pillow was missing it's pillow case. I asked her what was wrong and she said, "I hit my head!" When I looked closer I saw that she had a huge bump on her forehead that had a red line down the middle. It looked like it was about to split open. The pillow case that was missing was on the floor, I found out later what that had to do with Madi's accident. I picked Madi up and ran her to Brett then ran back to the bathroom to wash my mouth out. Brett was getting up and putting some clothes on so that he could help me. He at first just wanted to keep Madi home and put ice on her head which is all they ended up doing in the ER. The bump on her head had me so worried I told Brett that I just felt better about taking her in to have it looked at. Haven't I said before that I have learned my lesson about taking kids to the ER when it's not completely necessary. I guess I'll never learn but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Head bonks scare me since they can be serious without you even knowing it.
So back to Kimber, we all l0aded in the car which ended up being very painful for poor Kimber. I felt so bad that I had caused her to be in pain and I didn't know what to do to help her. When we arrived at the ER Madi wanted me to hold her while we were being checked in at the desk. She went about charming the ladies behind the counter she was completely herself so I wasn't too worried about how she was just the sight of the huge bump on her head made me nervous. They got us in the room pretty quickly. The nurse took the girls vitals and then left us with the remote so we could watch TV. Brett was sitting in a chair holding Kimber and I was sitting on the bed with Madi leaning on me so she could watch TV. Kimber just laid in Brett's arms very still. She usually sucks her left thumb but since it was hurt she had her fingers on her right hand in her mouth. She wasn't talking or smiling she just stared straight ahead. I got her to look at me and I almost had her laugh but she just really wasn't in the mood. When Dr. Holcomb came in the room she looked Madi over and asked us a few questions like has she thrown up or did she loose consciousness. She asked Madi what happened and Madi said, "Well, I had the sheet (pillow case) on my head and I couldn't see and I bonked my head on the bed." So that's why the pillow didn't have the case and the case was on the floor. Then Dr. Holcomb went over to Kimber and immediately knew what was wrong. She tried to put me a ease by saying it happens all the time and very easily. She said that it's called Nursemaid's Elbow or Radial Head Dislocation. She then put her thumb in the bend of Kimber's arm and closed Kimber's arm up towards her shoulder. I thought that she was still accessing the injury but she was putting Kimber's arm back into place. Kimber screamed and cried for a minute then the Dr wanted Kimber to use the arm. I kept digging into my purse for things that I knew Kimber would go for. First I handed her my phone which Kimber took with her right hand. Then I handed her my keys. The Dr had to step out of the room for a minute so while she was gone Brett and I kept working with Kimber to get her to use her arm and she finally did. It was so amazing! Instantly Kimber was back to her old cheerful self it was like night and day. She started waving her hands and laughing it was so cool. The nurse that had helped us before came in and told me that the dislocation like that happens a lot. I mentioned to her about how Kimber was now just acting like normal and she agreed that before Kimber was way subdued.
When the doctor came back in the room she told us to just keep an eye on Madi and that if she throws up once that's ok but if she does it twice to bring her back immediately. She said with Kimber that we should just follow up as needed but she should be completely fine. Madi's tumbling class was in a couple of hours so I asked the doctor if we should just skip it and she said that Madi should be fine. So Madi went to tumbling class with a huge bump on her head but she was just fine.
After we left the ER we took Brett home so that he could go back to sleep since he had to wake up and go to work in a couple of hours. I'm just so glad that he went with me. I would have been a complete wreck if he hadn't been there to help me.
I always try not to lift Kimber by just her arm but after this happened I noticed how many times I end up holding her by one arm. If we are walking together and she falls I end up holding her by one arm. I am so paranoid about pulling her arm out of socket again. I'm just glad that her arm was fixed so easily. The doctor said that it doesn't even show up on an X-ray.
Having to take one child to the ER is scary enough but having both of my kids get hurt within minutes of each other was something else all together. I just feel so blessed that Kimber's arm or Madi's head bump weren't more serious. I was sitting there in the ER thinking that we were going to take Kimber home with a cast on her arm or that I had broken the growth plate in her arm like had happened to a friend of mine when she was young. I was also sitting there thinking, "What is going to be the third thing that happens?" It seems like bad things always happen in threes. I guess the third thing would be my glasses falling apart that night and I had to drive home in my sunglasses when it was getting dark. Whew!! I really don't want something else to happen to us.
When I took this photo the swelling on Madi's bonk had gone down a lot. I think that it even looks worse now (a few days later). Poor little one.