The Chair, The Girl, The Cast

The story isn't very exciting. It's just your basic "little girl stands on a chair and then falls." Just like moms and dads always warn. When this little girl fell, she stuck her hands out to brace her fall. After much crying, her dad noticed that she was babying her right arm, cradling it to her tummy. He decided to test her pain by offering her a fruit snack. She held her snack in her hand, with her arm still bent across her tummy and instead of lifting her hand to her mouth, she tried to lower her mouth to her hand. So he decided a trip to the E.R. was in order. The dad called the mom who was working at the Halloween Store and calmly and casually says, "I'm taking her to the E.R. She fell off a chair." There was a baby screaming and wailing in the background so the mom insisted that the dad meet up with the grandma. After all, the mom knows what it's like to take 3 kids to the regular doctors office and she can only imagine what the E.R. would be like. So, the grandma meets the dad and the mom gets there last. The little girl seems fine. She's even moving her arm. But soon the Doc comes in and shows them the x-ray. There was a hairline fracture right below her elbow. The little girl goes home in a splint and a sling. The silly mom thinks this is all she'll need for 6 weeks. But really she needed a real cast, and luckily only for three weeks. The little girl is doing great and is finally figuring out how to get up when she falls and has even started raising her casted arm. Not much longer and she'll figure out that casts make great weapons.

Whenever you mention her 'owie' she points to it and then makes this face...