And the Oscar goes to....

This past Saturday, we began our day with a traumatizing trip to the pool.  Dunking Juliet in the water does not rate anywhere at all on her "fun stuff to do with daddy" list, but hey, its cheaper (and EASIER) than taking everyone to swim lessons.  After about two dozen dunkings, she complained of her arm hurting.  She'd grab it and scream like she was in pain.  It didn't look hurt, so we kinda ignored her and chalked it up to her trying to distract us from dunking her in the pool even more.  Nothing had been done to her to hurt it, so Jonathan took her out of the pool and helped her calm down by walking around looking at the trees.  She sat on a lounge chair wrapped in a towel for a good 30 minutes more while the rest of us played in the water.  We went home to have lunch and get ready for naps and Juliet didn't want to eat and continued to cradle her limp little arm in her hand.  She laid on the couch, quietly watching Little Mermaid, holding onto her arm the whole time.  I kept trying to get her to eat and she didn't want anything, not even a treat!  She didn't want me to hold her (she has to have a good reason to decline me of this, which is hardly ever) nor did she want her blanket.  She would drag that sucker all over town if we let her and she constantly sneaks it down stairs when she knows she only is supposed to have it at naptime or bedtime, so I really thought something was wrong.  So we put her down for a nap in which she fought with crying (she NEVER does this-her blanket puts her in a trance and she falls asleep instantly) and we decided that if she woke up fussy from that, we'd take her to the ER.  Maybe she was just super tired from the pool and not eating, so lets see how sleep would heal her.

Well, she woke up about 2 hours later, screaming that her arm hurt so Jonathan took her to the base hospital.  By this time, I'm crying because she's hysterical and does not want to go "to the doctor" and I can't figure out what is wrong with her arm.  It continues to look limp, if she moves it at all she freaks out, but we know its not broken because she can move it around and will go back and forth between saying it hurts or it doesn't hurt, but her overall theme is the same-pain!!

Nothing!  Nothing was wrong with it!  While she was getting her vitals checked by the nurse, she gave Jonathan a high five.  Prior to this, she wouldn't even try to use her arm but now things were looking up and he felt like an idiot.  The doctor came in, looked at it and had her hang on his fingers and...nothing!!  He said there was no medical reason to do an X-Ray and that she was fine.  Juliet came home, as happy as a clam, back to her old self and continued to tell me "doctor fix my arm" and shake her head 'yes'.  The doc did say maybe she had "nurses elbow" which he explained that sometimes when the nurse stretches out an arm of a patient, whatever was messed up gets put back into place and by the time he sees patients, their arms are fine.  However, I doubt that was the case because Jonathan said she fought the nurse big time when she tried to put the little blood pressure/oxygen saturation sensor on her finger, so there was no 'snapping anything back into place' going on.

Look for Juliet on the big screen someday!  She's clearly an excellent actress and even had her momma fooled!

See how quickly she can turn on the tears...