Broken Arm

We experienced our first trip the the ER with Kenzi.  She launched herself off the back of the couch and ended up with a broken humerus bone.  Of course I was in the room when it happened but wasn't expecting her to fly over the back of the couch, I think she now realizes how strong she is.  Luckily everything went smoothly...she really surprised us how brave and strong she is.  Right when she landed she cried, "ouchie, ouchie!" I thought it was the back of her head that was hurt but then I noticed her arm was not right.  I carried her upstairs and got Erich and we left for the hospital.  She was pretty calm and seemed to handle the pain okay (they wanted to give her morphine right away but we said we would like to wait until it was really bothering her) she held off for about an hr and a half until she got some pain medicine.  After x-rays, waiting for the surgeon and then the anesthesiologist we sent Kenzi off to the OR, it was so sad and scary leaving her but thankfully she came out of it well.  We ended up staying over one night at Swedish so they could observe her recovery.  We knew she was feeling better when she asked to have the TV on and then said that she didn't want to go home because she liked watching TV in bed.


She'll have a cast on for 4 weeks, just in time for summer!