Heidi fell off the slide at recess yesterday and broke her arm. The school freaked out and called 9-1-1. One police car, one ambulance, and one fire truck showed up. We opted to forego an expensive ambulance ride to the ER, but the EMTs still carried her to the minivan:
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| The firefighters put her arm in a temporary splint |
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| The diagnosis was a supracondylar fracture. The bone was displaced, so she had to get surgery to realign the bone. |
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| Swollen and bruised. Before surgery. |
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| After surgery. |
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| The surgeon's handiwork. He put in three temporary pins to align the fractured bone. The pins will be removed later. |
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| Safe at home the next morning |
The next step will be to remove the splint and put on a cast next Thursday. (It's too swollen to put on a cast right now.) After that she will wear the cast for three weeks. She has lots of limitations on her physical activity for the next three months until it heals completely.
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