...and we had quite the scare.
Kirsten came running down to Vern last night with a hurt wrist that LV had stepped on. He took one look at the bump and told her "it's broken." They showed me. I agreed. We splinted her forearm and I covered for Vern in the run he'd been in on WoW while he drove her to the ER. I was contemplating how her first weeks of school would be with a cast on her right arm. Yeah, she's right-handed.
The xrays showed that her bones were perfectly fine and that the bump was a cyst. Apparantly it's common for children to have cysts in their soft tissue, and that's what this is. We have no idea why it only appeared at the surface after she'd been stepped on, and how something so big could hide in the first place. I mean, it's pretty big. The good news is that she's fine and went to school today cast-free. She was brave at the ER, and only cried when they told her it was a cyst. (There was some explaining that there are different kinds of cysts and that she does not have cancer like her grandpa.) If it ever bothers her we can have it removed. No prescription, no cast - just a cool blue hospital bracelet to show off to her friends today. Whew.
4 comments:
Wow I'm glad she's okay. A cast would have sucked for the first weeks of school.
I'm glad she's okay. Brad has a cyst just like that on his right hand, too. He had to have it drained once because it was causing him pain, but that's really about it. He's had it for a long time.
BTW, I was supposed to wish her happy birthday from Kristin...so belated wishes!!
Oh poor girl. Mike's got a cyst that he needs to get rid of. It's weird because it feels rock hard like a bone, not soft tissue. I'm glad she's okay.
Yeah Erica, hers felt like bone to us too. The way it pokes out we thought for sure it was.
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