OK I am going to complain on behalf of my child. I had to take my two-year-old to urgent care for last night for the fourth time this month. #1) Fever/rash, probably Roseola; #2) Heinous rash of undetermined origin; #3) Recurrance of same heinous rash of still undetermined origin.
And then yesterday:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/bones/nursemaid.html. I was holding her hand, and she went limp in an attempt to express that she'd actually prefer to lay down and rest on the sidewalk instead of coming inside to eat dinner, thank you. And then voila: partially dislocated elbow.
I am afraid they are going to think I have Munchausen's or something.
They did an X-Ray to make sure it was nothing else, and then they popped the elbow back into joint. They also showed me how to pop it back in should it become necessary in the future.
...which was a good thing, because this morning she woke up, and it had popped out again in her sleep! So I popped it back into joint like they showed me. But WTF??? Then I had to explain all of this to the babysitter. "OK, her elbow has dislocated twice in the past 12 hours but it's really no big deal, I guess."
