1 Broken Arm = 1 Pink Cast

We went to Mike and Karen's Sunday for dinner, and after we were done eating, Ellie & Jake went downstairs to play. A few minutes later she came upstairs crying quite hard, and complaining of her wrist and hand hurting. When we had asked her what had happened she said climbed on Mike's treadmill, and then turned it on and it knocked her off where she landed on her arm. I gave her some children's Tylenol, and then we put an ice pack on it. Through the night she did not sleep well, and woke up several times crying that her hand was really hurting her bad. Monday morning we sent her off to school with her hand and wrist wrapped and told her we would make her an appointment if it still hurt her after school. While she was at school we made her the appointment, and then picked her up after school and I took her to the Dr. They did an x-ray, and sure enough it was broken. The doc then took us across the room and let Ellie pick her color of cast. She of course being the pink lover she is quickly chose a pink cast. When we left he told me to watch for swelling, and said to keep ice on it for the rest of the evening. Well by the time we got home to show her dad, her hand was swollen, and her fingers were turning purple, so it was back to the doctor to have the cast cut on both sides to loosen it and then he wrapped co ban around it for 3 days and sent us on our way. We will go in on Thursday and if the swelling is completely gone he will put a new cast on it and she will wear it for 2 to 4 weeks and then she will go in for another Dr's visit.