Did You Know? Or Adventures in Parenting an ACCIDENT PRONE daughter!

Did you know that there is now an x-ray machine on which an x-ray can be transmitted to a doctor via the Internet? Did you know that a child can break her ankle ten minutes after she says "Mom, I'm going to ride my bike" Did you know that there are growth plates in the ankle? I did not know any of this until last night! Crash course in radiology!
Sydney left the house yesterday night to ride her bike. Ten minutes later the kids from around the corner were running to the house "Sydney fell!" I walk down there, hear her crying before I even round the corner. Three adults holding her up, can't bear weight on her left leg. OH (four letter word, rhymes with MUCK, I was doing so well not cussing too!) Call home on someones cell phone, I'll need the car, no answer, no answer. I run back to the house, leaving my daughter, crying, on the curb with ice on her leg. Ah, here is why there's no answer in the house, Al is standing outside to see what's happened. "GET THE CAR, GET THE CAR NOW!" We pull up and load bike and kid into the car, get home, look at leg, can you wiggle your toes? Yes, can you move your ankle? NO! Ok, can you move the other ankle, yep, black and blue, not 20 minutes after falling, hmm, can't be too good, take her to the hospital, after two broken arms and surgery required for each one, I've learned something. Yelling that word in the house, over and over, looking for shoes, for keys, for phone, call her father, drive to the emergency room. Get to said emergency, taken into urgent care. Wait for an eternity, they x-ray with the coolest machine I've ever seen, they didn't have this machine two years ago when she broke her arms. I don't see a break in the picture, they come back and say they need a lower picture, looks like the break is in the ankle, they do another x-ray, the bone doctor who happens to be in the ER says to do a CT scan. YAHHOOO, I've now officially met my deductible! No one can read the CT scan by the time it's done, the doctor has left. Ok, so they give her Tylenol with codeine twice, take her vital signs twice, splint the leg, and off we go, the kid on crutches, her crying because of the pain. Get her home, get NO sleep, go to work, get little done, go home early, go to the orthopaedists office, find out how bad the break is. DID you know that if a child breaks the bone at the growth plate they have to put screws in to line it up? Did you know that the screws will stay in there? Did you know that you can go to the doctor on Friday and they do surgery on Monday. Pray for her Monday, pray for her surgery to go well, pray the doc knows what he's doing, and guide his hands to steady completion of the surgery.