Nursemaid's Elbow.....What?

This evening we had to take a trip to the Emergency Room with Will. I was quite certain that something in his arm was broken. Sean had come home from work a little early and we were watching UT play in the SEC tournament. All three kiddos were climbing all over him and just playing around. Will rolled over Sean and onto the floor, and as he flipped, I thought I heard a pop and then Will was crying. Best we could tell, his arm had gotten pinned under him as he rolled over and something wasn't right. He was favoring his left arm and wouldn't use it to do anything. Will usually hops up from a little spill like that and goes right back to playing, so when he was crying and not wanting to play, we knew something was wrong. It happened right about the time our pediatrician's office closed, so I took him to the ER. Let me just say, I LOVE our Children's Hospital! This was the best, most efficient and quickest trip EVER! First of all....does this look like a child who is hurting????
Well, no it doesn't! That is because after a quick evaluation by the doctor, he determined that Will probably had "Nursemaids Elbow"! Ever heard of it? No? Me either! So, the doctor made two quick turns of Will's elbow and we heard a little pop sound and Will was back to new in no time. Seriously, he was using his hand and arm within one minute! That doctor is a genius I tell you! He was quite humble and said that he sees this quite often with children under five. Nursemaids Elbow is an injury to the ligament that keeps the two bones of the lower arm in place. Once they turn five, these ligaments get harder and they don't see this same type injury anymore. Will had evidently popped it out of place when he rolled over Sean and it had caused the injury and the pain.

I don't think they had finished getting us totally checked in to the ER before it was time to process us out of the ER, so Will and I had to wait in the room for a while after he was all better. So, of course, I had to take a few pics! This was clearly not the outcome that I expected! I had dressed Will in a button down shirt because I thought it was the easiest to get on him without moving his arm too much and I also thought we would be coming home with a splint of some type on his arm! We are just so thankful that his arm was not broken! Never a dull moment at the Harper Hullabaloo! :)