Brynlyn's broken leg

So you know how I was saying early (about our vehicle tires) that things don't usually go "as planned" in life. Well, here is one more example.

On Tuesday while at Aspen, Brynlyn was playing on the playground equipment (that she'd been playing on for the few days before.) She missed a step and fell about 3 feet and landed right on her legs. After I had picked her up and was sitting down with her trying to console her, I started to figure out that something else just might be going on. My brother Brian pulled out his video camera and he was replaying video footage of Brynlyn trying to distract her and make her smile. This usually would have completely worked with her. And the fact that it wasn't working, lead me to believe that she might have really injured her foot or leg.

So Grandma ran to get Mike (who was watching the Lakers/Celtics Game 6) in the lodge at the time. =) We tried to take her back to our room to calm her down so we could examine her leg. She was wearing jeans so it was hard to tell, but she was not letting us move her leg at all. So we picked her up and drove down the mountain to Mount Timp Hospital ER.

By the way, we saw this deer on our drive down the canyon. We had to stop and take a picture of it, of course. =)

Our experience at the hospital was so ideal and could not have been more perfectly planned for Brynlyn. We didn't have to wait in the waiting room at all. They immediately ushered us into the triage area. The nurses were so great with Brynny and even managed to find some ice cream for her. =)

The ER DR was great and within a few minutes we were having x-rays taken and had results back. Sure enough she had a spiral fracture on her right tibia. They put a temporary cast on her leg (which can be seen in some of the other pictures) and they sent us on our way to fill our prescription. We made it to the pharmacy with 10 minutes to spare. And we were on our way back up the mountain by 10:00 p.m. Wow, talk about having a great experience at the ER if you absolutely have to go in!

And Brynlyn was such a trooper the entire time. Although I think she recognizes the red/white hospital sign by now because as soon as we pulled into the parking lot of the ER, she started saying, "No doctors, no doctors." I guess that's what months in the hospital will do to you.