Ok, so as if we didn't have enough on our plate already, Taylor broke her elbow! Robin and Taylor were outside while I was inside working. She was climbing down her ladder on her swing set when her foot got stuck and fell backwards. Robin said he heard, "Daddy, Ouch!!!" He thought that maybe a bee stung her but as he got closer she told him, "Daddy, I can't move my arm!" He saw how her arm was laying, scooped her up, and about that time I opened the back door to see what was going on. As a mom you know the cries of your child when they are seriously hurt, and I didn't hear that. She didn't cry until Robin and I were talking about her arm being broken or dislocated. We rushed her to the new TMH Urgent Care facility and they were great! We got into a room, saw a nurse, and had x-rays, saw a doctor, and were headed over to TMH ER within a little over an hour.
Once we got to the ER our experience went down hill significantly and each experience kept getting worse. Her ER nurse was a WITCH! There was Robin, me, and my parents in Taylor's room and the nurse told us that only 2 people were allowed in her room, but 4 doors down there were 7 people in another room. What's wrong with our 4 people?? She said something again and Robin got mad. He told her, "You’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us!" Finally the witch comes back into the room and as she is about to put an IV in Taylor and she asks, "She isn't on any medication is she?" Of course my first words were, "YES!!! SHE IS A HEART KID". I wonder what the point of filling out the paper work with "LIST MEDICATIONS" is for??? If they don't read it, what is the point of writing it. Dr. Rolle came in and he had just learned that Taylor was a heart kid and so I called Dr. Fricker. They talked and Dr. Rolle had someone come check Taylor's pacemaker to make sure the settings would be good for surgery. While we waited for her to go to the Operating Room, Rebecca came and sat with us for several hours. Then Misty came and relieved Rebecca so she could go home get some rest so she could take care of that sweet baby the next day! It's always nice to have a 3rd person with you.
Finally at 11:30 pm, we were headed down to the OR where we had an anesthesiologist asking questions about Taylor's heart defects but was being a smartass about it. Misty and Robin were ready to slap him because of the way he was talking to me. Anyway, they finally took her into surgery at 12:00 and 45 minutes later they were done! They put 2 screws in her arm and bandaged her up with a temporary cast. Robin, Misty, and I were in the recovery area waiting for Taylor to wake up some and noticed that Taylor still had on her clothes that we came to the hospital in! Call me crazy but isn't an OR suppose to be sterile?
After we got to our room (2213), Robin was about to leave when the Tech Nurse noticed a bug crawling on the wall. She killed it and went on her way to another room. Well I went into the bathroom and saw 2 roaches, and immediately got Robin in there so he could kill them. As it turns out there were more than 2 roaches! They were in the shower curtain, on the sink, and on the walls! IT WAS GROSS! Robin went and got the nurse and said that room wasn't going to work and we needed another room. In a matter of 10 minutes or so we were going to another room. Taylor got to go home Saturday around 3:30 after she took the last of her antibiotics.
It's been 6 days and Taylor is doing great! Each day she has adjusted to using her left arm instead of her right. She is such an amazing little girl!
Taylor got her cast on Friday, as you can see! She did great during the x-rays. We got to see the pins that are coming out of her arm and she didn't like that too much. She didn't want to look but yet kept looking. Thats my crazy blonde headed kid! I emailed the doctors at Shands to see if we could still have surgery on Monday and they said we were good. That's a relief because I didn't want to have to prepare myself for surgery again.
