Poor chiquita! We were at Juliet's volleyball game and Jack and the littles were outside playing on the grass in the dark. Mikayla was running and Jack was chasing her. She stopped short and Jack plowed into her. She fell on the grass and came into the gym crying. She wouldn't be consoled and after looking at her deformed right collar bone, we figured it was broken. We went home and helped her to sleep and went to InstaCare the next morning. We were 1st and sailed right in!
And we were right, that thang is BrOkEn!
We were referred to an orthopedic doctor because the InstaCare doc said that collar bones normally just go back together if left in a sling but she was a little worried about the distance of Mikayla's fracture.
We saw the orthopedic doctor and he said that she's young and it's still within an acceptable range. Her break has 13.1 mm of separation and under 20 mm is okay. 😳 He said she needs to be in that sling and sleep with her arm lashed to her body.
We are not allowed to raise her arm at all for 4 weeks but he's confident she won't need surgery and it will grow back and remodel itself over a period of months.
A kid at her table at school broke his collar bone a few weeks ago. Her teacher said she's never had a child with a broken collar bone and this year she has two at the same time!
As a throwback, Mikayla is my only child to have broken a bone. This is her right but she broke her left collar bone at 19 months, this same time of year! It was a week before Mark was born and she fell out of a high chair. It was less severe and she healed in two weeks without a sling. Wow! She must have weak collar bones. Ha ha!
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