Broken Bone

We are about halfway through our first broken bone now. Penelope fell while climbing a ladder at the park with the sitter. It took 48 hours before the ED finally diagnosed the break because at our first visit, they only xrayed her elbow and forearm, not listening when Michael said it seemed like her shoulder that was actually hurting. When he took her back two days later, we thought it must have been a collar bone break, but it turned out that her arm is just broken very high on the humerus. No need for a cast because it's too high for that to be reasonable, she's been living life very happily with an ace bandage securing her arm in place. We've been to the playground, she's jumped on the trampoline, we've gone to the beach twice, it doesn't seem to have slowed her down at all. I think that like Micah, Penelope must have a pretty high tolerance for pain. Even the first two nights when the arm was not restricted and she cried out if we picked her up under the armpit, she was sleeping almost through the night, with only a single wake up each night. Since the moment that arm was bandaged, she hasn't complained at all, and we haven't given her any pain medication. Lucky us that it wasn't any worse, but I'm sure it won't be the last injury our kids sustain!