Remi's Owie

Yesterday Remi was playing and slipped on the tile floor of the dining room. It seemed like a simple slip because when I turned and saw her she was kind of sitting on her knees. Her back was to me and I could see that her shoulders were heaving as if she was crying but she was not making a sound (you know how kids do that sometimes). I immediately went to her, picked her up and she started to cry pretty hysterically. Something told me to look down at her foot and there I could see her baby toe on her right foot pointing away from the other toes. It didn't look good.

I immediately woke WS up (he had dozed off on the couch) and told him, "We have to go to the ER. I think Remi's toe is broken" and then told Noah to put on his shoes and coat. WS was still a bit out of it so he was frantically running around (yeah, later in the night as we were reflecting on the entire incident we both came to the realization that he is totally useless in an emergency situation). He DID make sure to find his jacket and put it on which meant that he was now dressed in three layers of clothing. I told him to put shoes on and he's scurrying around looking for shoes and says, "But she won't want to wear them!" and I'm all, "Not HER shoes! YOUR SHOES!!!"

Thankfully, we are less than a mile from an ER and we got there very quickly. WS just held Remi with a blanket in the back seat. One thing I'll always remember is how hard she was crying. She was so upset and scared but she kept calling for her big brother. She kept saying, "woah wuh! woah wuh! woah wuh! I huht woah wuh. I huhting." She calls 'Noah, woah-wuh'. I thought it was so heartbreaking how she kept calling for him of all people. Noah was really scared because everything was happening so quickly and you could really hear that she was in a lot of pain. But he managed to console her as much as he could.

We get there and amazingly they make us go through the entire registration and check in process while we are holding a very distraught and hurting two year old in our arms. We finally get seen by someone only to have them sit us down and ask us a bunch of questions about allergies, get her weight and her heartbeat. Ummm hello, do you happen to notice I'm holding a screaming two year old? We get back to the room and we wait AGAIN to see someone. Another registration person comes in. Wait 10 minutes. X-ray tech comes in. Wait 15 minutes while doc reads x-ray. doc comes in. It's a dislocation. Let me get my attending. Wait 10 minutes. Remi finally gets some Tylenol with codeine but she's still in serious pain. Her toe is pretty much perpendicular from her foot. The doc says the attending will re-align her toe and she'll be administered something to numb her. Wait 10 minutes. Attending comes in, takes a look at her toe and says, "yup, that's a dislocation" and proceeds to PULL HER PINKY TOE right then and there. No numbing. Remi is SCRA-REEMING at this point and her whole face turns red. Keep in mind that she had been crying for about an hour non-stop by this point. They tape 3 of her toes together and send us off. But of course not before waiting for another 15 minutes while they are getting her discharge papers. And she's still in a lot of pain by this point.

We get home and she's ok once we plant her on the couch. She won't let us touch her foot and keeps reminding us, "Don toucha feet. Don toucha feet." She slept okay last night but still woke up earlier than usual. She even hollered for Woah Wuh and as soon as he came in the room she told him, "Don toucha feet woah wuh. kay? Don toucha feet." She really didn't want me to get her out of bed this morning and cried when I moved her to the couch but she's doing fine now. She's hasn't walked or moved from the couch which is so unlike her.

Poor thing. This is her 2nd ER visit in 2 months. Last month she fell from the dining room chair and we just took her in as a precaution. Last year in December she was at the Children's Hospital with her MRSA infection!

So here is our little princess. She has been on the couch all day and even took her nap there. She's been watching Hi-5 and Oobi.