A Trip To The Hospital

As we stated in our last post, Hannah fell and hurt her wrist last Saturday. Initially, she only had a little pain and swelling. Well, over the next few days, that 'little bit of pain' didn't get any worse, but it just didn't get any better. Lori and I were both awake at 2am on Wednesday morning thinking (and praying) about her. We decided that we should take her to the hospital so that she could have an x-ray. The nearest hospital is in Quiche (a little over two hours drive). The x-ray showed a distal radial fracture not involving the epiphysis (i.e. it was broke). The doctors at the hospital wanted to admit her and 'fix' it the next morning under sedation. We just didn't feel peace about doing the whole thing up there, so we drove on another four hours to Guatemala City. We had not intended to stay overnight and hadn't brought any personal stuff with us. So, we made a quick trip to Hiper Paiz (Wal-mart) to pick-up a few essentials and early the next morning, we went to the ER of Herrera Llerandi Hospital. We arrived around 8am, and the Orthopedic Doc was working away by 9:30. With a quick stop for groceries, we were back on the road by 12:30. We feel blessed to have everything go so smoothly and for everyting to have worked out so well. Here is a picture of Hannah with her new cast. If you look close, you can see how it is already covered by signatures.