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Lessons from the ER: Foreign Objects

by Laura on November 30, 2009

Though this lesson was not learned in the ER, it is a part of a continuing series of things I’ve learned from my son’s broken arm.  You can read other lessons HERE and HERE.       Last week at our doctor’s visit to check on the healing of Cade’s arm, a foreign object was revealed.  Something that should not [...]

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Lessons from the ER: The Perspective of Time

by Laura on November 9, 2009

Enjoy this continuing series of lessons I learned last week from time spent in the Emergency Room after my son broke his arm.  You can read the first lesson learned here.  Here’s the Scene.  My four-year-old is laid stifly on a sterile bed with oxgen tubes breathing into his nose.  He has wires stuck to his skin by [...]

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Lessons from the ER: Broken Bones

by Laura on November 4, 2009

A karate-jump-gone-bad resulted in two broken bones in a little four-year-old arm last night.  Matt and I spent the evening in the ER, while our tough-guy had to have his arm actually re-set–complete with doctors literally pulling bones, heavy sedation (thankfully), and an i.v. (which Cade kept thinking was “ivy” and couldn’t understand why the nurse would be [...]

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