Accident!

Now, Grant will be the first to admit that he was going too fast.. and later felt so badly when... they went over uneven ground and both he and Laura flipped over, he over the handle bars and she straight onto her head with her arm bent backwards.. you know *that* cry? Welp, sure enough she had it and I KNEW right away that her arm was broken. Grady and I quietly gathered some things up, told our guests which were at the house that we would have to cut our visit short.. loaded up with the guests and took them to the bus stop.. all the while Laura was mostly screaming which is really unlike her..

 

Ash giving her sissy a goodbye snuggle in the car while we gather up the company and diaper bag, ready for a LOOOOOONG night at the government hospital. After dropping our guests off at their bus stop we decided to head to the medical clinic in Spanish Lookout for their opinion. The nurse at the clinic felt her arm and informed us that yes, there was so much swelling already and that she felt a bump, like her bone had 'buckled' with what she called a probable green stick break. So our options were to have a local lady who does chiropractic wrap it up and let it heal.. or to head to Belmopan for an X ray to see how bad the break was. We didn't want to take the chance of it healing improperly so Grady decided to get an X ray in order to see exactly what was going on with it.  We were a bit concerned about the trip since our car is barely running (our parts should be in late next week from the States!)

We made it into Belmopan, thanks to many prayers and Grady nursing the vehicle which literally died at every intersection and over every speed bump.. and come to find that the only imaging place that we knew of in Belmopan had closed early for the day.. hmm.. well, we spoke with our friend who said that she was pretty sure that the BMP Government hospital had an X ray machine.. so off we sputtered across town to the hospital..

Now, upon first look it didn't really *look* like a hospital.. we had never gone there and hadn't heard the most positive things about it..

Now, this looked more official.. signs and everything.. we must be at the right place

 

It looked clean enough..

 

Thankfully the waiting room seemed pretty empty. We had heard to expect to wait 2- 3 hours just to be seen by the doctor.

We finally were able to meet with the triage nurse and was with the doctor within an hour. The doctor wrote a prescription for an X-ray and we headed over to the emergency side of the hospital

A very nice hospital attendant came with a wheelchair for Laura

 

She was so brave and looked so tiny and cute as he wheeled her off to get her X ray!! :-)

The X ray indeed showed that  Laura had a fracture in one of the bones in her forearm.. the nurse and doctor proceeded to set her up with a temporary cast until we could see the bone specialist who would set it and put her permanent cast on.

She was SUCH a trooper! Didn't cry once through the whole ordeal..

And left the hospital quite proud of her cast and her story. Meanwhile, her brother Grant was suffering back at home.. feeling so badly about the accident. Grace too was very worried about Laura's "casket" and was nervous about seeing her with it. Laura reassured her on the phone on the way home that her "cyst" wasn't that scary looking! :-) Now.... how to manage a toddler for 6 weeks with her right arm broken... eating.. writing and coloring.. dressing, bathing.. sounded a bit daunting.. We prayed that the Lord would let her heal quickly.. for her sake and ours! :-)