Broken Wrist

Sweet Pea was at cirque last week and fell from the German wheel. She landed very painfully on her wrist, and said she heard something crack. So I picked her up and drove her straight to orthopedic urgent care. They took X-rays and determined that it wasn't fractured, but the growth plate was strained. Normally they would put a cast on it, but the doctor talked to Sweet Pea sternly and determined that she was mature enough to keep a brace on it enough for it to heal. So off we went, with Sweet Pea wearing her brace, and instructions to come back in a week. After seven days of wearing the brace religiously, and fully resting her arm, it should be good as new.

A week later, it is only slightly better, and Sweet Pea definitely doesn't feel up to trying her cirque activities. So they took another X-ray, and it turns out it is broken after all. She has a buckle fracture that wasn't initially visible at the time of the injury. They told her to give it three more weeks of rest with the brace, and then start to ease back into her normal activities.

Here's hoping it works! She has several major cirque performances coming up in the next two months, and she is pretty concerned that this will affect her preparation or participation.