I had never heard of this......so I thought! Brynlee has Nursemaid's Elbow. Such a fluke type thing but here is the story.
Sunday afternoon Nate and I had left the kids at my parents so that we could go grocery shopping. Just as we got back Brynlee was crying in the back yard and I just thought it was her being a little stinker and not getting her own way. Well, that's what it all started out to be but she was crying because she was hurt. My Mom, Jenna my sister in law, and Shaun my brother, were all in the back yard with the kids when Bryn started throwing a tantrum over something and he had a hold of her hands/arms pulling her up so that she wouldn't throw herself down on the cement and hit her head. All the while Bryn is pulling away from him making this whole situation even worse. I got there kind of in the middle of all of this and my Mom said she is acting like her arm hurts. So I picked her up and held her and she did have a different kind of cry/whine so I felt like something was wrong. She kept holding up her left arm. I lifted it up and bent it and felt all around and she just kept somewhat crying/whining. So we went inside to settle her down and see if she would use her arm at all. She settled down but something still wasn't right and it didn't seem as though that she was using her left arm. So we headed to the Magna Clinic to have an x-ray done. I thought we would start there just in case maybe she just pulled a muscle or something rather than go to the emergency room and pay a grundle and I am glad we did.
The Doctor looked at her and asked what happened as though maybe we were the ones to hurt our sweet baby. That was kind of disturbing to us but I understand why they do it and I am glad they do. Once he heard the story he checked out Bryn's arm by doing the things I had been doing, lifting and bending. then he turned her arm so the palm of her hand was facing up and that's when Bryn started screaming. He then said, "just what I thought". While he was telling us what was happening with her arm he was fixing it and we didn't even know it. She has what is called Nursemaid's Elbow.
Nursemaid's Elbow is a pulled elbow. There is a ligament that keeps the two bones of the forearm in the correct place and this ligament was torn. When this ligament is torn, a part of it slides upward and gets trapped in the elbow joint. This is very painful! Luckily, it is a very easy fix. The doctor can pop the ligament back into place. However, once the elbow has been injured, it is more likely that it will happen again in the future.
My cousins little girl who is 4 has the same thing. We had been told about her incidents and thought what a strange thing it was. I had no idea that it was called Nursemaid's Elbow and I never imagined that that's what it was that Brynlee has. They have told us how painful it is for their little girl when this happens to her and now I know firs hand. I feel terrible! I hate to see my baby in so much pain. But at least now we know and we can be extra extra careful with her.
Nursemaid's Elbow.....serioulsy! What a freakish thing! But I am so glad that's all it is. It could always have been so much worse. So I think we can live with the Nursemaid's!
Sunday afternoon Nate and I had left the kids at my parents so that we could go grocery shopping. Just as we got back Brynlee was crying in the back yard and I just thought it was her being a little stinker and not getting her own way. Well, that's what it all started out to be but she was crying because she was hurt. My Mom, Jenna my sister in law, and Shaun my brother, were all in the back yard with the kids when Bryn started throwing a tantrum over something and he had a hold of her hands/arms pulling her up so that she wouldn't throw herself down on the cement and hit her head. All the while Bryn is pulling away from him making this whole situation even worse. I got there kind of in the middle of all of this and my Mom said she is acting like her arm hurts. So I picked her up and held her and she did have a different kind of cry/whine so I felt like something was wrong. She kept holding up her left arm. I lifted it up and bent it and felt all around and she just kept somewhat crying/whining. So we went inside to settle her down and see if she would use her arm at all. She settled down but something still wasn't right and it didn't seem as though that she was using her left arm. So we headed to the Magna Clinic to have an x-ray done. I thought we would start there just in case maybe she just pulled a muscle or something rather than go to the emergency room and pay a grundle and I am glad we did.
The Doctor looked at her and asked what happened as though maybe we were the ones to hurt our sweet baby. That was kind of disturbing to us but I understand why they do it and I am glad they do. Once he heard the story he checked out Bryn's arm by doing the things I had been doing, lifting and bending. then he turned her arm so the palm of her hand was facing up and that's when Bryn started screaming. He then said, "just what I thought". While he was telling us what was happening with her arm he was fixing it and we didn't even know it. She has what is called Nursemaid's Elbow.
Nursemaid's Elbow is a pulled elbow. There is a ligament that keeps the two bones of the forearm in the correct place and this ligament was torn. When this ligament is torn, a part of it slides upward and gets trapped in the elbow joint. This is very painful! Luckily, it is a very easy fix. The doctor can pop the ligament back into place. However, once the elbow has been injured, it is more likely that it will happen again in the future.
My cousins little girl who is 4 has the same thing. We had been told about her incidents and thought what a strange thing it was. I had no idea that it was called Nursemaid's Elbow and I never imagined that that's what it was that Brynlee has. They have told us how painful it is for their little girl when this happens to her and now I know firs hand. I feel terrible! I hate to see my baby in so much pain. But at least now we know and we can be extra extra careful with her.
Nursemaid's Elbow.....serioulsy! What a freakish thing! But I am so glad that's all it is. It could always have been so much worse. So I think we can live with the Nursemaid's!
1 comment:
my daughter had nursemaids elbow too..her elbow "popped" out 2-3 times..one of the times when she was holding it away from me she turned it funny and it went back into place on its own..hasnt happened in a few years...hopefully she's grown out of it.
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