It’s official; we are the worst parents in the world. Saturday afternoon Lindy took a tumble down the stairs. We have told her many times not to go up them but she just does not listen. It took us quite a while to comfort her down but soon she was back to playing as usual. We did notice that she had a little swelling on her right wrist and that she was favoring her other hand and we figured she had a little sprain. She would still use her injured hand for many things and she would even let us touch and squeeze it with no ill effect. We decided to keep and eye on it.

After she ran into Mom hard on Sunday and cried quite a bit Hannah decided it was time to take her to the Hospital. I was coming from a friend’s house and met the girls at the Emergency room. When I arrived Lindy was all smiles and playing “run-around-the-waiting-room”. As well looked at the other patients we felt very sheepish about our daughters boo-boo taking up precious resources but we figured that we would stay for safety sake. Two hours later when we got to the Doctor, (The Triage Nurses did not feel our baby’s hurt wrist was as important as the motorcycle accident victims.) This is was our entire conversation with the Doctor.

Him : Hi there what happened?

Us: She fell and we think she hurt her wrist.

Him: Left or right

Us: Right

Him: Let’s take a look see.

The Dr, then used his hand to apply pressure to Lindy’s arm, starting at the shoulder and working his way down. When he got to her wrist Lindy lit up like a screaming baby. The Dr. said

Him: We’re going to go ahead and take some X-rays and see what is going on in there.

So he left and the nurses came and took Lindy and Hannah and X-rayed her little wrist. At this point we were glad we came in but still thought that he would return and say, “It is just a little sprain.” Instead he came back and said, “Well she broke it! There is a fracture in her __________(the wrist bone next to the thumb). We are going to put a temporary cast on her and recommend you to a specialist. When the swelling goes down they will put on a permanent cast for 3 to 4 weeks. She will be just fine”

Well that is where we are now. Her fracture is small enough that she continued to use her hand to feed and play but it was felt when she would put too much pressure on it. Now she totes about this monstrosity of a cast. She is a trooper. She has complained very little and has started to compensate nicely with her left. I’m sure this will be more of an ordeal for Mom and Dad than it is for Lindy. Please pray for a fast healing and for mom and dad to recover from guilt. If you name is Randy, do NOT call County Services on us please.

I pride myself in not being high maintenance. I don’t need an hour to get myself ready for work, I don’t tote around every hair gadget, and I don’t wear a lot of makeup (Some might argue that that is why I look the way I do). As of this week, I am now high maintenance and that makes me a little sad.

I am now officially wearing an insulin pump. I’ve been wearing it for 4 days using saline solution just to practice and this evening I changed the whole infusion and reservoir set to include insulin.

Surprisingly, the sadness goes away quickly because I realize that using the pump is going to be so much easier than having to pull out my needles and stick myself 3 times a day; with the pump, I have a canula under my skin, very similar to an IV that is just a small piece of plastic under my skin. It puts insulin into my body in two different formats. The first starts at midnight and does a steady drip of insulin throughout the day. The second is whenever I eat. I tell the pump how many carbs I ate and it calculates how much insulin I get and sends it through the little tube into my body. I can tell you how the math is done because I had to learn it first before the pump would just do it for me, simliar to you kids who have to learn your math before you can use a calculator.

tonight is my first night of it putting insulin into my body starting at midnight. I will then program it tomorrow for the carbs that I eat for all my meals. I am a little nervous but I think this is the best solution for me.

I’ll let you know how it goes!