Sydney broke her arm :(

As I am sure many of you have experienced, having a child get hurt is a really scarey thing.  We were in Greens Peak for our annual Longhurst family reunion and we had only been there maybe two or three hours.  We were trying to set up the travel trailer that we borrowed from Byron's parents and I was busy trying to make fry bread for dinner.  I had seen Sydney with her cousin Halee over by my brother's horse he just got and just figured she was over there.  Well then the next thing I knew she was on a small ATV and my nephew Hinkley was driving who is only 3 years old. He was coming towards our trailer and was going really slow and made a small turn.  Sydney must not have been hanging on, and for some reason she fell and landed on her arm at just the right angle and snapped her hurmerous bone just slightly above the elbow. My heart just fell out of my chest.  She didn't cry or anything, just looked up in a daze.  My brother Anthon swooped her up and held her while Byron and I rushed to get Colter in the truck and threw out the other kids car seats.  We grabbed whatever we thought we might need and rushed to the hospital.  I was crying and trying to be brave for Sydney.  I just held her in my arms and tried to hold her arm to try to keep it from bouching around.  I could feel her bone moving back and forth.  I was just so sick to my stomach. I talked to her and kept asking her questions to try to keep her from falling asleep. I wasn't sure if she had a concussion or not, so I didn't want her to fall asleep.  About 45 minutes later we arrived at the hospital in Show Low and rushed her in.  They took her back immediately. They tried to stabilize her arm and gave her morphine to help with the pain, as by now the shock of the accident was starting to wear off. They then took a lot of xrays and a cat scan.  Thankfully, the cat scan came back normal. The xrays did show that she broke it off completely, a clean break, just above the elbow. They were worried about the bone moving around and severing the artery.  Finally, about three hours later, they decided to air vac her to Cardon's Children's Hospital in Mesa.  She would need surgery to stabilize the bones to each other.  By then, I had called my parents to bring me the other kids.  We would be going back to the valley tomorrow morning, and Byron will fly with Sydney.  I wanted so badly to be with Sydney every single minute.  It was so hard for me to leave her.  But since Colter is just a few months old, I obviously needed to stay with him.  I didn't want to stay the night, but I knew I would be too tired to drive to Mesa this late, as by now it was about 11 pm.  So we stayed at my parents house and early the next morning, my mom came with me to Mesa.  When Sydney arrived at the hospital, they did surgery around 3 am.  Everything had gone well and she was recovering just fine.  As soon as I got to Mesa, I dropped my mom and the boys off at our house and drove to the hospital. I took Colter with me though. They called it surgery, but it wasn't your typical surgery.  They did put her under anethisia, but they pushed two pins in through the humerous bone and on into the elbow bone.  That way the bone can fuse together in the correct position. They then put a temporary cast on her for a month so the swelling could go down before they put a real cast on it. It was so hard for her not get to play and be rowdy with her brothers. She felt fine, except that she has to keep her arm elevated for several hours at a time.  I think it was harder for me than it was for her.  Emotionally and physically. My mom thankfully stayed with me for about four days and then my dad came and got her. She has to take it real easy for a while.  At her first appointment, she did well.  The Dr. said it looked good and then she got to get a pink cast on.  However, since the break is so low, to help alleviate pressure and gravity, she has to wear a sling 24/7. We had her sleep in our room on the floor.  We put her mattress on the floor and put pillows under her arm to elevate it. She had to go to weekly appointments just to make sure everything was progessing well.  Then after four more weeks, they took the cast off and took more xrays. Everything has healed so well.  Her arm is so skinny, but it is very sensitive. Over the next week, her skin was peeling bad.  It was kinda gross. She is glad to be out of the cast and be able to take a normal bath.  She has had to take a bath with her arm sticking out of the tub and then I have had to lay her down on the counter to wash her hair in the kitchen sink. She can now take a normal bath or shower.