My pixie decided, very early Monday morning, to jump out of my arms just after I'd lifted her out of her crib. I barely caught her by her left arm, and heard a pop. She started screaming, but didn't seem like she'd broken anything, since she settled down, nursed well, and fell back asleep. She woke up about an hour and a half later screaming again when she tried to push up to resettle herself against my shoulder.
We took her to the urgent care clinic, and the doctor diagnosed her as having nursemaid's elbow--a mild dislocation--but couldn't put it back. He gave us the name and number of a specialist to call Tuesday, and put a splint on her to protect her little elbow.
She spent most of Monday in my lap, nursing and sleeping. She wanted down to play a couple of times, but got incredibly frustrated because she couldn't crawl with the splint, which stretched from an inch or two below her shoulder to her knuckles.
We got her in to see the specialist on Tuesday, he got her elbow put back in (with much screaming and crying on her part, and flinching and nearly crying on mine), and sent her for some x-rays to make sure her tiny bones didn't take any damage. She finally started using her arm again, but acted like it was still really sore (big surprise, there). It was sore all day Wednesday, and much of the day yesterday, making her really cranky, and inclined to want to nurse all the time. It was only late yesterday afternoon that she started acting like her normal, happy, active self.
So, for most of this week, I've been limited to one hand to do anything with--which really sucks when it's my retarded left hand. And I've not had nearly enough sleep.
