Broken Bones, Asthama Attacks...Oh my!

We kicked off March with a bunch of hospital trips... Ugh! It's pretty sad when you're at the ER 3 times in 10 days. Poor Maddyn fell off the slide and broke her humerus. That is the short version.

The long version: She was goofing off on the slide, fell over the edge, landed wrong, and snapped the humerus in 2. Went to see the doctor- they thought it was just bruised and didn't x-ray her. After a day and a half of screaming pain and no improvement, we went back to the hospital and demanded an xray.  This time, they did do the x-ray and immediately showed it was broken (before the radiologist even read it, you could see the break it was so bad).

After a horrible, horrible experience all around, we finally got Maddyn in a sling to help. However, when we saw the pediatric ortho weeks later, she said such a big break would require an immobilizer (Or possibly a cast).  We  had her arm set again, and she went into the immobilizer. We were so lucky that did the trick, and she didn't need the cast.  So after 7 weeks in the immobilizer and a good xray, her arm was improved enough to take it off.  She has to be careful and watch applying pressure- but everyone is so much happier now!!!  Here's a photo of the little one in her sling, and then in her immobilizer:

Note- Dave made Jessie a sling to match Maddyn's. Hers was out of an old sock and rubber band though, ;)

Then, as if our lives were not crazy enough, we also spent much of March trying to control Maddy's asthma. We had a long night in the ER coupled with many Drs appts at Children's Hospital trying to figure it out. She has a chronic cough that then leads to labored breathing and she just starts gasping for air. Then she eventually recovers and it makes her puke. We get about a 20 min break and it keeps cycling over and over.  

Her allergist was able to get her in with the pediatric pulmonologist at Children's super quick and they've put her on a new daily inhaler, some new nebulizers, and also some homeopathic meds. I can admit I was a little skeptical of the homeopathic meds at first, but she's done so much better since being on this new mix of meds, I'm definitely willing to keep trying this. I'm not sure if the weather improvement or the meds are what did the trick- but right now, we have been seeing improvement and that's all that matters!  Let's just hope it stays that way for a bit.