We headed back to the doctor today...12 days post break. The dr had told us we could either come in before we went to the cabin or after, with the hopes of her arm healing well and potentially being done with the half cast. We decided to go in after the cabin just to have the extra protection of the cast while we were at the cabin. The dr we had seen wasn't there so they put us with one of the other doctors. He struggled. We had first waited 45 min to even be seen by him, and he had no clue what to do with a little kid. So he said we would just put a hard cast on it for 4 weeks, but he had a hurt shoulder so he couldn't do it. The other doctor was behind so he wanted us to wait at least another hour for him to cast it. Ummm...I don't think so. We were expecting to be done with the cast, not put a hard on one without having any follow up x-rays. I told him we had a family party and would have to come back later that night to get the hard cast. So of course I let Britney play in the water at the splash pad expecting to go back for a hard cast. We went back at 8:30 to quickly get a cast put on, but ended up seeing a different doctor first. She wasn't so sure about the hard cast and was showing me on her phone what google says about this type of fracture in little kids. Ummm...thanks but I can google on my own. I went to see a doctor. She decided to re-do the x-rays, then decided to re-do the half cast and talk to our original doctor the next day to see what she wanted to have done. So her and one of the nurses re-did Britney's half cast but did a horrible job...they only went to above the wrist instead of below the wrist so it hurt every time Britney rotated her hand or bent it. After spending 3.5 hrs there throughout the day I was just done so we left and went home. The next morning I called the doctor's office to find out if we needed to have the half cast done again bc I felt like it wasn't done like it should've been. They ended up connecting me to the office manager who told me I was on her list to call to find out what had happened the day before. I guess it should make me feel better that they were realizing there was a problem with my daughter's care. So I talked through everything with her...from the extremely long wait times, seeing multiple non-pediatric doctors, to googling information in front of me, to having 3 different opinions of what we needed to do. I told her I was ready to start over with another doctor bc I was so upset with all of it. She asked for some time to look into it and called me back asking if I could bring Britney in, again, to see the owner of the medical center who is a pediatrician. So we made another trip over there and talked through everything that had happened. She spent a lot of time evaluating Britney's x-rays as well as looking at her arm. We decided together that a half cast would be best so we could take it off periodically and let her move it a little bit so we wouldn't have to do physical therapy at the end of it. While I was very upset about everything that had happened, I was equally impressed with how well they tried to remedy the situation and further take care of Britney. We kept the half cast on for another week, then just slowly let Britney go at her own pace in using her arm again until I felt like we didn't need the cast anymore. Overall it turned out ok, but definitely had lots of frustrations along the way. We should've had our initial follow-up before the cabin and gotten a hard cast put on. It's unfortunate that it went the way it did, but luckily Britney was a trooper and it all worked out.
