Olivia's Arm

A few weeks ago I wrote about all of the issues that I had been having with Owen (scarlet fever, ear surgery).  Wouldn't you know it that as soon as Owen got back to "normal", Olivia started having things happen to her.  First she got strep throat.  We went to the doctor to get some relief for that.  On the very day that she went back to school (after the strep) I received a call from the school nurse stating that Olivia had had an accident on the playground.  Apparently Olivia came down the slide too fast and didn't get her feet under her in time.  She put her arm down to catch herself and fractured her radius.  We took her to the emergency room where they took x-rays to confirm the fracture.  The orthopedic surgeon said that it is fractured in such a way that he will need to monitor it frequently to make sure that it is healing like it should.  It should heal fine in the cast as long as Olivia isn't too rough with it.  Needless to say we have had to withdraw from gymnastics (we switched to dance) and there will be no recess or PE for awhile.  Olivia doesn't seem too bummed about this, though.  She is getting along fine with her cast.  She got to choose the color of the wrapping and picked blue- to everyone's surprise.  Hopefully, her bone will heal soon.