Broken wings

I kind of avoid even visiting my blog anymore because I cringe every time I look at the date of my last post. APRIL? really? Obviously summer arrived and feels like it's basically already over. For miss Jayda, it really feels like it's over.  I guess broken bones in the summer time is our new "thing." Jayda took her turn this year and broke her arm (both bones, just like little sister). Her horse, whom used to be my horse and still is my absolute favorite, fights flies very badly. She's gotten into a habit of laying down in an attempt to roll the flies off of her. She also pays no mind to the fact that she has a little rider on her back. She's done this twice already with Jayda and once with Paisley. Thankfully those times we escaped injury, but not so lucky this time. Jayda thought she was jump off before Z laid down so she wouldn't get her leg rolled on. Unfortunately she landed on her arm and here we are a week later ;(

The minute she came in crying and I looked at her arm my stomach sank. I knew it was broken from the odd bow shape it had. I reallly reallllllly wanted it to not be broken and kept telling myself...well maybe it's not. But knowing it was. Since it was almost 9pm we decided to wait until morning to go in for x-rays. Thankfully she really wasn't in a lot of pain and she was OK with going to bed and checking it out in the morning. If course I didn't tell her it was definitely broken. I wanted her to get some sleep that night.

Thursday morning we came into Bison for an xray right away in the morning and they confirmed with the first X-ray it was very broken....30 degrees out of line.. So we headed to our favorite hang out in Rapid, Black Hills Orthopedic to see the next doctor. By this time she was really freaking out. She clearly heard the PA say..."yeah they do a lot with pins and screws these days.." yeah shut up dude, you're not helping here! The entire way to Rapid she was freaking out about what they might do and wanting answers that I just couldn't answer at that point.

We made it to the next appointment where the Doctor took once glance at the x-ray and said he would schedule her for Friday for surgery and two pins would be needed to fix the breaks. Cue next hyperventilating session....
She was thankful the surgery wouldn't be that day and she would have the entire evening to stress herself out. Oy..what a night we had!

After her appointment we went to eat Chinese, as requested by Jayda. Then I took her to Justice for a little retail therapy and let her pick out a few things that I normally would have said no to. Then we went to my parents heat house. She was not wanting to talk about it AT ALL. Then when we went to bed she tossed and moaned ALL NIGHT. For one it was 135 degrees in their house so that didn't help one bit, then she was too worried about surgery to allow herself any rest. I think we maybe got 2 hours of sleep that night. Friday morning we were ready to go...get this done!

I do think she conquered a lot of her nerves and fears and believe all the people praying for her to find peace in her heart really did help. She text Jed that morning and said, "I can do this." Kind of brings a tear to my eye! The surgery went fast, they gave her gas then put the IV in. The nurses and doctors were very good to her and eased a lot of her fears. She didn't believe that she wouldn't feel ANYTHING! She came out of the anesthesia pretty crabby, but recovered more quickly than Paisley did last year.

We did receive the unfortunate news that the pins will have to be removed. Paisley broke that news to her at supper Friday night. Cue another round of anxiety.

She woke up Saturday with a fresh attitude and feeling much better. She's doing really well this week and attending a bible school to keep her mind off her troubles. We go back for a check up on Monday to see how it is healing!