Lillie's Broken Arm update

LThis picture is while we were waiting for them to come and say it was time to go back to the operating room. You can see that she is in good spirits and happy here. She was all smiles when we got to the hospital and everything. Great Grandpa Veer, Papa Veer and also Grammy(my mom) were all there waiting for her. Then while she was in the operating room Grandma Veer and Aunt Tiffy came. Aunt Nattie and Uncle Garrett stayed with the boys.

Daddy is trying to get her to hear his heartbeat. It really wasn't working very well.

A little after this I think the surgeon came in and talked to us and told us that he would be doing what is called a closed reduction. So they didn't have make any incisions. They just pushed the bones back into place and casted her arm. He said she should be in the full cast for about 3 weeks and then go to the doctor and get a shorter cast for another 3 weeks. We were so glad that they didn't have to do any cutting and that the bone itself didn't break the skin. Arlene, the nurse from our church, did say afterwards that it looked like one of the bones was pushing pretty good on the skin though and was close to puncturing the skin. She said then they would have done the procedure right away the day it happened rather than waiting until Monday.


Mommy and Lillie. The hospital had that little giraffe on the bed for her when she got in the room. She really likes him. Lillie is all warm and cozy in those pre heated blankets=)

Then it was about time to go back to the operating room and she got really scared when we talked about her going to sleep. And of course she couldn't see why I couldn't go back there with her and didn't understand what was going on. She was crying and scared but thankfully Arlene that goes to our church and also was one of Lillie's Sunday School teachers got to take her back there and was there through the procedure. We were very thankful for her to be there.


Here she is just coming back from the room she stayed in until the anesthesia wore off. She was in a lot of pain and was pretty teary. Daddy was trying to make her feel better by showing her the xrays and how they lined her bones back up. I'm not sure she really cared =)


You can see her face in this picture and how out of it she was. They did give her some morphine through her IV. They put the IV in while she was sleeping. She never even knew she had it in. The nurse kept referring to it as a "magic straw" to give her medicine. That knocked her out pretty good giving her morphine. When she woke up enough from that she had to take some Tylenol with codeine by mouth and then the nurse got her all "unhooked", and we came home. We got to the hospital about 7:30am and got home about 1:00pm. But that was with a stop to get some Sonic, Subway and ice cream at Braum's to take home. The only way we can get her to take the medicine is to have a spoonful of ice cream ready right after =) Lucky girl =)

And here are the xrays.

The picture above is an xray from the top view. You can see the 2 bones broken and slid to the side and overlapping the bone they broke away from.

Above is an xray from the side. It shows how the bone slid forward and is overlapping. That is why they had to essentially pull from the elbow and pull from the hand so that is was stretched out then guide the bones back into place. That is why they wanted her asleep because the pain would have been unbearable.

And this is an after xray. You can see the bones are back together. The doctor said it was perfectly fine that they weren't 100% aligned. They will grow back together just fine. He said everything went well and it was a "good reduction".

Thank you to everyone for praying and thinking about her. She is just up and getting ready to paint sun catcher that her Aunt Natalie got for her.