Just as the weather starts to warm up, the school year comes to a close and we're starting to feel "freer" from quarantine, tragedy strikes the Kerschen household. The kids were being so helpful, enthusiastically painting the basement walls with us. We took a break for dinner and a little backyard play - when Lillian and Emma decided to jump off the swings in the backyard. Joseph videotaped the whole thing, Lillian missed the opportune jumping moment and fell face first - or wrist first - onto the ground. All 3 kids came running into the house - saying "Lillian broke her arm!". I tried calling Mike, who had just left on a Home Depot run, quickly sent Emma home and loaded both kids in the back of the van - seatbelt free, supporting Lillian's visibly bent arm with ice packs. We drove straight to urgent care, they took one look at her arm and referred us on to Children's Hospital. Mike and Joseph weren't able to go with us into the hospital (Covid rules), so we called with updates all throughout the night. Poor Lillian broke both bones in her arm, had to have her arm reset and was finally discharged at 1 AM.
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