Wow...yesterday...gee whiz!!
We started off our day behind...I remembered about Arlee's Writing Club at about 10:20am...it starts at 10:30am! So we rushed to get ready...and we hurried over to drop her off. Got her there around 11am. On our way back home, we stopped by The Family Dollar to pick up a couple things we've been needing around the house. Then home to fold some laundry, get the boys dressed for the day, and check my messages before leaving again to go pick Arlee up.
She had a great time, as usual, at Writing Club. When she arrived, they were all excited that she had made it! Arlee listened to the writings of the others, then she was able to read a piece of her own. One of the ladies, she tells me, told her, "Wow. I can REALLY see that." What a great compliment for a writer! She even left with a bag of cherry tomatoes for us to snack on in the car!
Home again, but not for long! Enough time to change my clothes, Arlee to pack up for a sleepover, and Frosty to grab his Scout stuff and bag up some tadpoles for a friend! We headed up to meet up with a fellow homeschooling mom who wanted tadpoles Frosty and the other kids had gotten out of our pool, and I picked up some homeschooling magazines from her. I was very much looking forward to an evening of reading with a yummy cup of coffee! Yeah...best laid plans! Ha Ha.
We were all absolutely STARVING by this time...and with NO time to make anything we could have brought "on the go", and actually with NOthing we could have used to bring "on the go". "REALLY need to hit up the grocery store soon!} So we decided to stop in at McD's. All the kids got McChickens, I had a McDouble...we all had parfaits and large orange drinks...and we left with our food for $15.32!! Not too bad for five of us!
Next we hit up Aldi really quick to pick up some snacks for Arlee's sleepover with her fellow Girl Scouts. Then we headed over to her troop's leader's house. She has twin boys that get along well with my two younger boys...so they played together. We tried our best to keep the girls focused...we tried to have a meeting to talk about a project we are working on...but it was pretty much a lost cause for the most part! They were VERY anxious to just hang out and have some fun together down in the basement!
I had to leave about 2 1/2 hours into it...Frosty had a Boy Scout outing that evening. We picked up a friend on the way to a Firehouse for some first aid training. We were there when Danny was trying to get a hold of me. Thankfully he was able to call Arlee's boyfriend, Zach's, phone because mine had ZERO service out where we were. He let me know that Arlee had gotten hurt really bad, and needed us to come check on her. The boys were almost done, I know Zach was wanting to come with us to check on Arlee since she was hurt. So once they were done...we sent Frosty with one of our friends to be dropped off at another friends house. Then headed to my in-laws to drop off our younger two boys as well.
When we arrived at the sleepover, Arlee was sitting up, but still in a lot of pain. She had attempted to do a cartwheel for the first time, and...well...it just didn't go over well for her. Somehow she fell right on her shoulder. She said she heard a loud CRACK when she landed. She laid on the ground for awhile. Her leader, my friend, took such good care of her. Staying with her, talking with her, trying to keep her mind off the pain. Her friends talked with her and was there for her as well. I'm so very thankful for ALL of them!
While Zach {Arlee's boyfriend} was at the Firehouse, he had asked the EMTs what would they do if they were treating someone who had broken their collar bone. They wrapped HIM up how they would do that...and allowed him to keep the sheet and such. And he put it on her when we got there. She said it did help a lot since it made it so she couldn't move her arm as easily with it on.
We stopped in at Urgent Care first...when we arrived, Arlee said she heard a big POP in her shoulder, and the pain started in again. Not sure what that was. I don't know if she could have popped her shoulder out of place, maybe, before when she fell...and then somehow it popped itself back into place?? I'm not sure. We were talking about it when she got her Xrays done...we were kinda hoping at that point that that would be all it was. But when the ER doctor came in after looking at her Xrays...he confirmed it was definitely broken.
A nurse came in and put a sling on Arlee...let her know she would have to wear it for about 4 to 6 weeks. We also received a couple pain med scripts. They gave her a couple Tylenol 3's for her pain while we were there. On the way home, I believe the combination that the hospital visit was over, she then knew for sure what was wrong, and having her Dad and boyfriend there to make her laugh got her in this giggling fit that lasted almost the whole way back to my in-law's house to pick up the boys! But then while we were updating them on what was going on with Arlee...she about fell asleep laying on Zach's shoulder. She was ready to crash. Poor girl.
We dropped Zach off at home...then headed home ourselves. Arlee pretty much went right to bed. I put the boys to bed. Then Danny & I wasn't far behind them. Yeah...WOW...what a day!!
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