...and luckily not broken. This morning Audrey woke up crying and sitting next to her bed and told me she couldn't stand up; her leg hurt. Last night before bed she said the same thing but she wasn't crying and I carried her to bed. I put her on the couch at 7:00 this morning and she was there until noon. Not normal. Ben was working so I called him around 11:30 telling him I didn't know what to do, that at 10:00 I realized she hadn't gone to the bathroom even though she had two cups of juice; I was pretty sure she hadn't gone since the night before. She also wouldn't let me pick her up. I did move her once, from laying down to sitting up because we thought we would go to Target. Just moving to a sitting position made her scream and cry big tears. She off and on would cry and say it hurt. I could rub her leg and it didn't hurt but she did not want to move it, so I was thinking there could be a fracture. I asked her if she had fallen and she said she did fall in the play yard at preschool on Friday. I asked if she remembers when it first hurt and she said the night before when she was picking up her toys before bed. She said she was walking on her heals with her toes up and she had put a stretchy headband on her right foot and was pulling up. So then I was thinking something might be torn.
Ben came home and we knew we should take her to see someone, we just didn't know if we should go to the near-by Quick Care or the ER. Ben called the neighbor who is a nurse and her husband is a doctor and she called and asked his advice. He was actually working it the ER today and said we should come to the ER; he was concerned with her lethargy, as were we. Only she had a lot of energy when she screamed and cried.
We got in a room right away and Kevin, our neighbor, found us right away. The first thing he examined was her belly because one of the symptoms of appendicitis is a sore right leg. Luckily her tummy was fine. And he said sometimes pain can be caused by a tumor, which would show on an x-ray. All of her vitals were normal, so no infection. Kevin wasn't our official doctor so then a Physicians Assistant came and examined her and ordered x-rays. She did well with those (they actually brought the machine in to her examination room) but screamed every time the technician had to switch the plates under her legs. Thankfully the x-rays came back just fine. A pediatrician came and saw her, too and they think she has a deep tissue bruise possibly from falling. She had to stand and bear weight before they would let us leave and that took about 5 minutes to get her to do that, and even then I just had to take her out of the bed and put her feet on the floor. She stood but we could tell it wasn't comfortable. They said it's normal for there not to be pain until a day or two after a fall and also for no bruise to show on the outside. We are to give her Tylenol or Ibuprofen every 6 hours and put heat or ice on it. They also said she needs to walk on it today otherwise it will feel worse tomorrow. She is yet to walk. :( She wants to go to Target with me, though, so we'll see how that goes.
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