Natalie has a splint on her arm now and may get a cast from the orthopedist. She woke up once last night crying, but with a little tylenol, she went right back to sleep. It's going to be interesting getting her through the basic daily routine with one arm. I'm not sure what we'll do about school on Monday if she can't figure out how to go to the bathroom independently.
The urgent care center, incidentally, was awesome. Our local emergency room is famous for 4-hour waits on Saturday nights, but the urgent care center got us registered, x-rayed, examined, splinted, re-examined and discharged in 30 minutes. And we didn't feel rushed at all; they just didn't waste any time. We were in the waiting room for about 2 minutes and went from there straight to x-ray. From x-ray we went to the exam room. The doctor walked in two minutes later and had already read the x-rays. And it went on like that, with each person being cheerful, empathetic to Natalie, and happy to answer questions. And it was a smaller co-pay than the Emergency Room!

4 comments:
Where did you go? We've been to the Patient First in front of BJs with the same efficent but good service.
poor kiddo! I'm glad she will be okay, but I'm sorry for the scare! I will keep my fingers crossed that 2009 will be a stellar year for the Smiths!
That's the same Patient First we went too. A mom in my mom's group just mentioned her good experience so that's the first thing I thought of when I we decided we really needed to go somewhere.
Thanks Steph! I am certainly looking forward to a great time with you next week!!! I will call you, hopefully later today (or tomorrow) to work out the details!!!
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