I need a Virtual Shoulder

...for a moment :) Ok, can you tolerate a little "venting"? If not, feel free to skip this ;) I just need some virtual shoulders to cry on for a moment.

Deep breath..ok, this end of this week has been really really tough on my nerves. Our weeks are usually jam packed anyway, but 2 TRIPS TO THE ER...yep 2...for 2 separate girls...within 3 days about frazzled me to a crisp. Tuesday night Brianna was playing with her daddy and jumping over his legs as he sat on the floor...he raised his knees up as she jumped and her ankles caught on his knees and her face plunged down into the coffee table with the table catching UNDER her nose....OOOOUUUUCH!! YES.....it was awful...blood everywhere, screaming...you know, the perfect ending to a loooong day. Brian ran her over to the ER which is on a different base while I stayed home with the kids. She was fine...no fractures in her jaw or nose PTL..

Thursday morning, I was pretty tired after a late Wed night at church, but I was thankful that I had no real demands during the day, just visitation that night. THEN it was my turn to injure one of children *sigh*. Lily was wanting to get in the kitchen and standing at the baby gate with her arms up to be lifted...yep I picked her up (slowly even!) by those little lifted arms and heard a "pop" ...I could have just kicked myself!!! How ignorant!!!! Soooo Lily's little elbow was dislocated (very very common by the way so be careful). She is such a little trooper...she was mostly just whimpering about it and refusing to use it. I called Brian to meet me at the ER while I confessed my bad mom incident to the Dr. They were very kind and assured me it happens all the time PTL..it did help me feel better. BUT, the Dr could not get Lily's elbow popped back..he ordered x-rays (ha ha that was a story in itself..I had to LAY ON HER practically to get her to lay still)...no fractures...no clue as to what the problem was. So, he called the Orthopedic Surgeon...heh heh...forgive me, but I wanted to wring his neck...he walked in the room in his shorts and t-shirt (the ER Dr informed me that he had been on his way to lunch...*ahem*) but did not do anything..he thought she was just "pretending" it still hurt. He told me to take her home and see if she forgets about it then bring her back first thing in the morning to the fracture clinic as a walk in at 7:30 am.....GRRRR. Yeah, I am so sure my 19 mo old is "faking" that she can't move her arm.... uhhhh duh !! (sorry I'm a little addicted to the italic/bold feature lol). I asked what to do about the pain she was in...he assured me that they would give her pain medication...uhhhh TYLENOL LOL. He obviously has no clue about kids. Stupid me signed the discharge paperwork, let them put some ridiculous sling on her made out of some type of cheese cloth material...and took her and her useless painful arm home. I am so dumb sometimes. My friend told me to take her back, but my husband was afraid they would just mess with it some more and put her in more pain...blah blah blah. I called the church to ask for prayer for Lily in her pain which I know helped...God is sooo good. SO, after a restless night (it was not tooo bad PTL), I loaded the kids BACK UP to truck them over to the hospital again...Brian met me there to take Brianna and Anjolie to work with him as he could not get out of his schedule today (did I mention we had to be there at 7:30 AM? ;) not fun). We did not have to wait too long which was such a blessing because there were at least 6 other walk-ins there. But, I could not believe that the Orthopedic surgeon whom I had seen the day before stood there and basically lied to the pediatric Orthopedic surgeon...right in front of me!! See, even HE thinks I'm an idiot. He stood there and told the other Doc that she had full mobility yesterday before she left! I stood there flabbergasted, but the other Dr knew right away there was something wrong if she was refusing to use it. Hallelujah! he had a functioning brain...sorry gettin' a little carried away. He picked up her arm and said he could feel the bones slipping around! He was the one to give "Mr DR Lt. I have a lunch date man and can't help your kid" a dirty look. He then, just popped it right in, and Lily immediately started to use it like normal!! Praise the Lord! I was so happy that in that moment allll the weeks struggles faded when I saw Lily's happy little face because her little arm was fixed...she only whimpered when he popped it back in....she did not even cry. Poor little thing must have been in so much pain last night :( phew...actually I feel better now :) so, I know I know there was some attitude there...ohhh is that an understatement ...sorry ;) But thanks for reading...I do feel better!