No, Darling, you cannot fly
Sunday afternoon while I was in the midst of traveling back to Maryland to pick up my children from Grandma’s, I learned that my daughter and son had decided to play superheroes. On the stairs. Holding hands. 
Yes, my dear son thought it would be a great idea if the two of them held hands while leaping into the air down a set of two carpeted stairs. Seeing as he is about six inches taller than she is, needless to say he survived the flight and she didn’t.
My mother was horrified at the bruise and swelling that erupted over my daughter’s right foot and iced it immediately. When I got back from RWA, it was black and blue but she was still walking around on it. On Monday, she cried when she had to put shoes on, so I suspected that I should probably have this checked out by the pediatrician.
Before the pediatrician would see her, they wanted x-rays done, so we drove home to Virginia, got the x-rays done, and had the results sent. On Tuesday she was still bruised but would alternate between jumping around and crying that her foot hurt. The pediatrician was suspicious and although the x-rays showed nothing, she referred us to a pediatric orthopedist. By this point, I was feeling a little stupid. I mean, it was bruised, but other than that, no big deal. If it was a sprain, they couldn’t do much more than wrap it.
But, I dutifully took her to the specialist the next day. The first thing they wanted was to redo the x-rays. I thought they could just use the hospital ones, but they were pretty convinced that they would find something the hospital didn’t. Sure enough, she’d fractured her foot in three places. 
And here I was thinking I was overreacting by taking her to the specialist. All I can say is, thank goodness I did! She didn’t have to get a cast because they were minor fractures, but they put her in a velcro boot to keep her from arching her foot.
Isn’t it terrible how you secondguess yourself when you’re a parent? Have you ever had something like that happen, where you under or overreacted?
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kacey Says:
Poor baby!!! This parenting thing is hard, isn’t it? We’re always second guessing our decisions!
Jenna Bayley-Burke Says:
So sorry about the boot. But at least it isn’t a cast. Your poor mom is never going to forget it.
Tori Lennox Says:
I so totally sympathize with her on the boot. I hate mine!
Melissa Marsh Says:
Oh, poor little thing! I’m so glad you took her into the doctor!
When my daughter was only a few months old, she rolled off the changing table and fell about two feet (onto a carpeted floor, thank the Lord) and I FREAKED OUT. She was just fine, but I was a nervous wreck and wanted to take her to the ER. Thankfully, my husband was there and since he’d already gone through two babies (he has two sons with his first wife) he was a lot calmer than I was. He told me we could take her to the ER if it would make me feel better, but that she was just fine. I cried and cried because I felt so bad for letting her fall - I turned my head one second and forgot to put my hand on her tummy to keep her in place and that’s all it took. Believe me, I never made that mistake again!
Holly Says:
Oh poor baby!!! How long will she have to wear the boot? My thoughts and prayers for a quick heal!
A could of months ago I overreacted to a tick bite my daughter had gotten under her hair. We took her to the doctor and said it was probably fine, but they gave her some antibiotics, just in case.
Now, several years ago, my husband thought I was overreacting when his son got very sick. He couldn’t keep anything down and I kept telling my husband that something was seriously wrong. He couldn’t even keep down Pedialyte and he was beginning to get the hollows under his eyes…almost black as pitch and I kept telling my husband that he should take him to the ER, but he wouldn’t listen to me all day long, saying there wasn’t anything the doctors could do, that the illness would have to run it’s course.
It was late evening or early morning I finally nagged him enough to take him the hospital and when they returned he said the doctors had to put the poor little thing on an IV for a bit because he was so dehydrated if he hadn’t brought him in when he did he could’ve died and since they didn’t want to give him a shot, they gave us suppositories to use at home.
My hubby is the under-reactor while I’m the overreactor. Parenting is so hard!
Kelly Says:
Well, not having kids I haven’t had to experience it that way, but when my brother and I were little we were convinced we could fly if we tied capes around our neck and leapt off the roof of the cottage. Thankfully we suffered no broken bones. I guess sometimes there is a downside to your parents telling you that you can do anything you put your mind to…
jeanne s. Says:
Hope your daughter is feeling better and glad she didn’t have to have the hard cast.
I tend to want to wait things out and I hate mothers that so overreact to tiny things that I’m afraid I always went the other way because I didn’t want my kids to be big babies over the small stuff. Unfortunately one day my daughter was outside in the grass (thank goodness not cement) and went to kick a ball, totally missed and went down on her back and head. I laughed and told her to get back up but she went into convulsions. Very scary. We did end up at the hospital overnight but she was just fine. When she was older she fainted in school and passed out and hit her head again - this time a different group of doctors told me to bring her there instead of the ER which was a big mistake but luckily she came throught that one too. Did I mention I’m totally grey
jeanne s. Says:
okay typo - through not thought lol. By the way - she is 23 now and I still beat myself up about not doing things differently lol.
Suzanne Says:
I can’t even bear to recount the time my daughter broke her arm….
Olga Says:
Lots of hugs to your daughter!
Christina Says:
Poor baby. A few years back I didn’t over react and my daughter had a fracture in her arm. Learning from that experience this summer my son flipped a go-cart his wrist and forearm became badly bruised and knotted, thankfully it wasn’t broke.
Hope she heals quickly, I know how hard it is to keep those little ones down.
Michelle Willingham Says:
Melissa–that happened to me once when I was babysitting. I could have died, I was so scared. But the baby was about 9 months old and was just fine. It still took a year off my life.
Holly–that’s so frightening about your son! Good thing you got there in time. My dd has to wear the boot for three weeks and then they’ll check it again.
Jeanne–poor thing!
MaryF Says:
Poor kid! I remember when my son broke his wrist and we didn’t believe it, thought he’d just sprained it. Felt like the Worst Mother Ever.