A trip to the ER

Zoe brought Noah into the house before FHE. He was crying and crying and wouldn't stop. The kids had been outside playing and they had come in for FHE, but Noah hadn't come in yet. Zoe went back out to get him and he was laying on his belly by the slide, crying. How he got hurt was a mystery, but we did notice that he wouldn't move his arm and he didn't want anyone touching it. We started FHE, but we ended it right after the lesson because Noah was still crying. We decided we needed to take him to the ER to have his arm looked at. My mom came over to watch the kids. Thanks mom!

When Matt put Noah into the car, Noah perked up. Noah likes being in the car. On the ride to the ER, we wondered if we had made the right decision to go to the ER since now Noah was happy and he was starting to move his arm a little. We continued on, though.

While we were waiting to be seen in the ER, Matt tried to get Noah to give him high fives with both hands and to raise his hands above his head. Noah started to use his arm a little more.

The nurse and first doctor that saw Noah thought he had nursemaid's elbow, but since we weren't sure how Noah got hurt, they did an x-ray on him to make sure it wasn't broken before they started twisting his arm and trying to cure the nursemaid's elbow. Zoe had nursemaid's elbow when she was around Noah's age, so we have had experience with that. Matt tried to fix the nursemaid's elbow assuming that was the problem, but he didn't have any success.

The second doctor that saw Noah tried curing his nursemaid elbow after the x-ray came back fine. It didn't work. At this point we were wondering if we would get an answer to why Noah was still hurting and not using his arm. Noah had another set of x-rays done. This time they looked at his Humerus bone. The doctor came back with an answer. Noah has broken his arm bone right above his armpit. They put a temporary cast on him and sent us on our way. The plan is to follow up with another doctor at the end of the week.


Noah was saying "home" a lot by the end of the ER visit, so he was pleased when we finally headed out the door to go home. We arrived at the ER around 7pm and left just after 10:30pm. We were all ready to go home.