Emergency Room Visit

This evening we had to take Kristen to the ER. She was playing in the floor, we really don't know what she did, but she started crying holding her arm. We put some ice on it but she was still holding it against her body not really moving it. After about 30 minutes we decided to take her to the ER. Something was definately wrong and we were just praying it wasn't broken. She wouldn't even move her arm to get it into straps of her car seat, that is how bad it was hurting her. We arrived at the hospital and they took some x-rays. After the x-rays she started moving her arm all around and said it was all better and she wanted to go home. She had nursemaid's elbow. This is a partial dislocation of the elbow. The first x-ray showed it dislocated, when they flipped her arm over to do another x-ray it popped back into socket, so the next two x-rays came out good. She is all better and we stopped at WaWa and got her some candy...she deserved it after that. There is a possibility that it could dislocate again in the next few weeks, but they showed us what to do in case that happened. I sure hope it doesn't. I hate to see my little girl in pain.