Belatedly let me catch up a few highlights from your birthday and a few lowlights from your broken arm:
Low lights. It was terrible seeing you in such pain from your buckle fracture. You were so brave and it was so hard. When the radiologist gave you your xrays, your daddy hugged you and held you down while I crawled onto the table with you to hold you. Your heart was beating and your cries were excrucating. That's probably one of the hardest things we've ever had to go through with you.
Fortunately the buckle fracture is not serious and healed quickly. Unfortunately you became hooked on your splint. I think you liked it for the support it gave you and the reassurance that nobody was going to manipulate your arm and bend it in ways you didn't like. You cried hysterically every night when we took it off to redo it.
Finally, at your 3 year doctor's appt, the doctor was able to remove the splint from your healed arm. But you were so upset that he gave you a sling which you proceeded to wear, unnecessarily for the whole day, returning home with it hanging loosely about your neck like a purse! A few days later, we slipped off the bandage and you were back to normal. For a few days after, you would comment when you were doing something with your right hand that you hadn't been able to do with the splint on. But now it's like it never happened.
Even with the broken arm and a fever, you still were able to enjoy your birthday party. When your daddy came home with 3 helium balloons including 2 princess ones you delightedly said: "This is my best birthday ever!" You had fun, but then you got sick and everyone went home. Hopefully you'll have even better birthdays in the future!
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