Who knew a wrist could be such a PAIN!

The 1st thing we heard when we picked Corrine up for sibling camp last Saturday was that she had hurt her wrist during the week and she was still favoring it. We went to our friends house for the day and she just wasn't herself. She was so tired and her wrist hurt that she didn't even want to play with Meredith. At lunch before heading home she was in tears. It just wasn't her. Her wrist was swollen and tender to the touch.
When we got home that evening we decided her wrist needed to be xrayed. I took her to the ER since Urgent Care was closed and they are so painfully slow that we would have sat for hours before being seen.
At the ER they did 3 x-rays and played with it. The xrays didn't have any obvious brakes, but the ER doctor said that it could still be a buckle fractor and to go see our pediatrician if it was still hurting her in a few days. They sent her home with a wrist brace.
Monday morning she went to her 1st day of school with her brace on.

Fast forward to Friday afternoon and her wrist was still bothering her, so we headed to our pediatrician. He was thinking it was probably not broken, just a bruise. He decided to go look at the xray report. When he came back in he said the radiologist report said there was widening of the growth plate, which would indicate that she had broken the growth plate and it needed to be casted.
Corrine started smiling right away when she heard that. It's fun to get a cast, until a week into it and it stinks, itches, you can't shower or swim and you're sick of it.
He went ahead and put a short arm cast on right then in the office. He told us it'd be on for 3-4 weeks, but he'd get back to us the next week if we needed to do something different.

 Monday morning after the kids go to school the doctor called. He had talked with another doctor and we had a new plan. We needed to go back to the ER, get the cast cut off, then go to radiology and get her wrist re-xrayed. If her left wrist growth plate showed widening, then they'd xray her right wrist. If they both showed widening then it was just her, if only her left showed widening then it was indeed broken, and if the left one on it's own showed no widening then it wasn't broken. If it was broken she'd be in a short arm cast for 4-5 weeks!

And her xray showed NO widening of the growth plate. So her left wrist was not broken after all. She started wearing her brace again.

Corrine luckily took all the changes in stride. She was excited for the cast, but then bummed she couldn't swim that night, and she was kind of sad to get her newly signed cast taken off, but I think she is grateful that she isn't in pain anymore and she can do anything she wants.