Madison's First Broken Bone!

Well, we had one heck of a Mother's Day weekend! We were outside Saturday evening and Madison was playing on her playset out back. She was climbing up the latter and made it all the way to the top and then slipped. It seemed like everyhing was happening in slow motion! I went running and by the time I got to her she was walking towards me holding her arm saying it hurt. I took a look and could immediately tell it was broken. Jon out her in the car and took her to fairview er. Once there they had a trauma team look her over since she fell from so high. Once they were done they did the x-Rays and sure enough her right elbow was dislocated and there was a fracture right above the elbow. They had to transfer us to the Cleveland Clinic main campus downtown so she could have surgery. We got to the clinic at 3:30 am and they scheduled her surgery for 10:30 am. The surgery went great and they put three pins in her arm to hold everything in place. We were even able to come home that afternoon! Madison is such a trooper and is already back at school. It was a very long weekend, however, I feel blessed that it was just her arm. From the height that she fell it easily could have been her neck or spine. Grateful that it was a just her arm and it's only a few weeks in a cast!