It's Broken

One day while I was having lunch with a friend, I got a call from the nurse at Ashley's school.  She told me that Ashley hurt her finger in gym, it was pretty swollen, and might be broken.  The nurse also said that Ashley said she wasn't in much pain, so, it was up to me whether or not I wanted to come get her.

OKAY here it is: the classic parent dilemma: whatever decision you make is probably going to be the wrong one.

I decided since there was only about 2 hours left of school to just wait and take a look when Ashley got home from school.  Well, one hour later, I get another call from the nurse who says she looked at it again and it is still really swollen and I should come get her.  Dave and I take Ashley to an urgent care for an x-ray and yep, it's broken.  She tried to catch a football during PE and it bent her middle finger on her left hand back and cracked the bone on both sides of her middle knuckle.  Pretty mild, but she does have to wear a splint for about a month, sit out of PE and take a break from piano lessons.  More an incovenience than anything else.  Although the orthopedist did tell me that once you break a finger the swelling never really goes completely away.  So now she will always have a fat finger.

Ironically, I signed her up to play basketball for the first time ever this winter, but she should be healed in time to play.

On another note, when Dave made a joke to Ashley about breaking her middle finger and flipping the bird, she had no idea what he was talking about.  What a good and innocent child.  Love her.