I'm pretty overwhelmed by the events of this weekend. It took a turn that none of us expected.
The inflatables after bible school commencement put Makenna in the ER for the rest of the night. She landed wrong on her elbow which dislocated her radius and broke her ulna. We got to the ER by 8:30pm and left at 3:00am, getting us in bed by 4:00am. They put her in a temporary hard splint and told us to follow up with a pediatric orthopedic doctor on Monday and we were okay with that because of the good splint she had. Well...the doctor she would see Monday actually called me on Saturday morning and said she looked at the x-ray and the ER missed the dislocation and she needed to go in Sunday morning to have surgery to relocate it. What?!?!
So we didn't sleep Friday night. We got to rest some Saturday. Got in bed just after midnight at had to be in pre-op at 6:45. All this with a newborn attached to my side. It's hard to leave him anywhere when I'm nursing him. He isn't a hassle at all. He just takes extra care that only I can give him. I've been able to rest some but I'm still tired.
Makenna made it through her surgery and did SO good! She's such a brave little girl. They were able to fix the dislocation without cutting her and we are so thankful for that. If it didn't work the way it did, they would have had to go in and hold it in place with screws and pins which also meant that they would have to go in at another time and take them back out. I'm glad it didn't result in that and was very simple. She now has a beautiful rainbow cast from her fingers to her arm pit that she will have through her 5th birthday party and start kindergarten with.
Isaiah is in need of extra attention because he hasn't been with us much over the past 2 days. He loves his sister and has been worried about her. It's probably drained him a little bit emotionally and he has been acting out a little bit at home because of it.
I was prepared for the extra attention required of me for a newborn. I was not prepared for the extra attention of a newborn, a daughter requiring surgery and lots of extra care at home, and a son that wants extra attention because of lacking attention due to the extra care given to the other two. That's a mouthful.
I guess I've tried to be too strong this weekend. I want to meet everyones needs and be sure my family is taken care of. Nate has done a wonderful job tending to Makenna while I tend to the baby but I don't want him overwhelmed so I've been trying to let him rest also. I can't pick Makenna up off the couch. She's only 38 pounds. This time 3 years ago I was able to complete the Firefighter Combat Challenge in 5 minutes which made me carry a 185 pound dummy backwards about 100 yards and that was at the END of it. I consider that my biggest physical achievement but after hurting my neck, I can't lift my 38 pound daughter off the couch without hurting.
I need to keep myself healthy. Physically and emotionally. I'm fading a little. I just need to sleep and rest and be really careful about what I lift for the next few days. I go back to my pain management doctor is 2 days to follow up on the last set of injections I had. I'm sure there will be more in my near future. This next set will be around my hair line and that will be the worst of all of them. It's such a weird feeling. And, of course, it hurts.
Anyway, enough rambling. I'm tired. I'm going to go to bed, only to get up very soon to feed a hungry baby. But he's worth it <3
Did I mention I want to go to an all you can eat buffet right now? I'm so hungry!
