How I broke my wrist by Alyssa Jones

Last night at the playground where Taylor has football practice, I broke my wrist. I was trying to jump up on the monkey bars. I thought that I had it, but my hand slipped and I landed on my wrist. I knew right away that I broke it. It felt like something was inside of it wandering around. I cried and cried and cried! Marsha took me to meet mom at the doctor's office. When we got to the doctor, she looked at my wrist, she gave me a splint and some Motrin and said I needed to get an X-ray. Then I had to go downstairs to the big camera and have lots of pictures taken of my hand and wrist. It was very cool. Afterwards, I got to look at the pictures of my bones. That was cool. Then we took the pictures up to the doctor and she said I fractured my wrist. We were waiting for the doctor to call us to tell us when we could put a cast on it so I went to school. At school, I got tripped and fell on my wrist again. IT HURT!! Then we finally got to go to the doctor and they took more X-rays to see if I fractured it more. Then they let me pick a color and they put the cast on my arm. Mom and I got some cool flowers to decorate it with and lots of markers so that people can sign the cast. I feel much better now that it is on but my arm is really heavy! I think it looks cool though. It's kind of funny that I have to have help with things like getting dressed, taking a bath and going to the bathroom. I won't be able to write until I get this thing off. The doctor says I may only need it for three weeks, he will check it then and see if we can take it off. I am glad that I have Kaylie for a sister and Taylor for a brother because they have been helping me a lot. I LOVE MY CAST!





So on a side note-this is the mom speaking now...this was our first experience with a broken bone. I remained pretty calm thanks to Alyssa and how calm she remained throughout the process. She's an amazingly strong little girl. It wasn't fun to have had to deal with this while Greg was out of town-however he came home to be the hero at just the right time to take Alyssa to get her cast on. Thanks for all of your support. If you would like to leave a message for Alyssa, please do so.