Llama drama...

I guess it wouldn't be our life without constant drama...

On Friday Nik and Ben were playing in the basement while I was cooking dinner when I heard a shriek. I sprinted down the stairs; Nik was on the floor, crying hysterically. He had been fooling around on the stairs and fallen off of the top step (there are no balustrades) landing on his elbow.

I brought him up to the kitchen, put some ice on his arm, and continued cooking. An hour later his elbow was swollen terribly and he was still sitting with his head down on the counter and whimpering... so we called a new neighbor who took Ben and, as soon as Ian got home, we bundled Nik off to the peds ER in Hartford.

Nik fractured at least one bone and possibly two... ER put him in a splint...


I've been to quite a few peds ERs... and I must say the one in Hartford was the nicest. Everyone we met -- the nurses, docs, techs -- all were great with kids. They made Nik feel comfortable with what was happening and were very kind and compassionate. Today we're going to peds orthopedics and hopefully they can hard cast his arm so he can be a little more active again.

Nik has been handling all this with his usual cheerful aplomb -- he is excited to have a cast for his classmates to sign.