The Magic Touch - Book 2
In this chapter, a young girl is brought in by her concerned parents because she is unable to walk. It seems that she had gotten her foot caught underneath the couch, and when she was pushed down by her brother, she had apparently twisted her knee.After being carried into the ER and placed on a stretcher in the arms of her mother, her crying had diminished to a whimper.
As is my practice, I palpated the rest of her body first, putting all of her joints through their range of motion and looking for secondary injuries that might have been masked by the distracting knee pain.
Finding none, I gently worked my way up the involved leg; starting at the toes, she remained silent and trusting as I palpated the foot, the ankle, the shin....
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
She made it quite clear that the knee was the part that hurt. My tympanic membranes sympathized. I tried to gently bend her knee, but she was crying so hard by that point that I figured it would be better to just get the X-rays first. So I ordered some Motrin for her and moved on to my other patients.
When the X-ray didn't reveal any fracture or dislocation, I asked the nurse to get some ACE wraps, because I was obviously going to have to put her in a splint to immobilize the knee. When I walked back into the room, there she stood, happy and giggling. Then she began to dance. Yes, dance. Then she ran across the room to her mother, singing. She was completely healed.
I felt a little bit like Jesus, but I'm sure it was really just the Motrin.
Oh, to be young again and bounce back from injuries so quickly.
Book 1 here
posted by scalpel at 5:27 AM
5 Comments:
You truly are a talented healer, Doc!
Therapeutic radiation.
I had that happen with my 2 year old last week! We were at the grocery store and she had been in one of those bus carts that are not allowed outside. So I took her out and I thought she can walk across the street holding my hand and we are in the first spot. I had groceries in the left hand, hand in my right. She decided to make a run for it. When that didn't work, she promptly sat down dead weight in the middle of the road and a car was coming! When she did that I felt a pop in her wrist and she started screaming. A kind older man picked her up for me and carried her to the car. She the whole time is screaming. half hour later and tylenol. Still screaming. So off to the ER. She was diagnosed with either a greenstick fracture or nursemaids elbow. He went ahead and tried to reduce it, but didn't feel it pop into place. So they put it in a partial cast shoulder to fingertips. We got an emergency appt at the ortho. She was in the exam room WHACKING the arm against anything she could to get it off. Diagnosis - Nursemaids elbow that was apparently reduced in the ER. She was supposed to keep the partial cast on for 10 days. NADA. It lasted a few more hours.
P.S. A screaming toddler gets through ER triage quick and mom doesn't have to do registration and gets back right away......
Indeed...I will do everything in my power to expedite the care of a screaming toddler to get them home as soon as possible.
:)
Sometimes little kids are just good actors.
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