Urgent Care and the ER

Well last week started with a trip to the Urgent Care and ended with one to the ER!

Let's start with Monday - Adam was standing by the door at school, like all the kids do, watching all the parents come to pick up their kids.  As the door closed, his little hand was on the back of it and his index finger got shut in it.  This happened right before I got there and when I did he was crying.  His teacher all but demanded I take him to get it looked at.  So off we went to the Urgent Care.  The hardest part was all the vitals they have to get, once he got in the room with the doctor he was good.  And it turned out his finger was fine.

And now to Sunday (yesterday).  Grace had her riding lesson.  We've been riding a lot to make up for several missed lessons last month for various reasons.  Shortly in to her lesson, I could tell I was a distraction, so I went to the car.  No more than 10 minutes after I left, one of the older girls came over and said she fell off the horse.  I started walking over to where she was riding, but they weren't there.  I turned my head and saw a figure lying by the side of the driveway and ran over.  Grace was crying uncontrollably and her arm was - well let's just say bloody - and her back was all scratched up.  Turns out she got frustrated with something she had to do during her lesson and screamed.  This scared the horse and it took of in a full gallop.  Grace did what she's supposed to - she held on.  But as the horse headed toward the road, she let go and fell off.  Thank God because the horse ran across the road and almost got hit.  I don't even want to think about what could've happened.  Anyway - we went home and she seemed ok.  But I got to thinking, sometimes you can move your fingers even with a broken arm and I talked to my dad and he started talking about concussions.  So I called her pediatrician and after speaking with the on call nurse, she said to go to the ER. 

That was a whole new experience.  We got there around 8:00 and things seems to move along pretty quick.  They took her vitals, we met with one of the attendants, got her registered and then we waited for a room.  We got into a room around 9:30 and saw the doctor within 20 minutes.  Then we had to wait for X-ray to respond and after that we waited for the doctor to come back with the great news - nothing is broken.  The nurse cleaned up her arm and back and then we had to wait for the discharge instructions.  It was midnight by the time we left.  Needless to say, we are pretty tired today.  Grace is resting and we are do our best to nurse her even when she fights us over doing the things we need to for her to feel better.