Broken Arm?

So in my last post, I mentioned that Merrick started having this excrusiating pain in her arm on Christmas Eve night. We thought it was just asleep and she wouldn't move it. We kept telling her to move it and it would feel better. We hadn't seen her do anything to it, so we just assumed she sat on it and it was asleep. Her pain lasted a good 12 hours and then seemed to go away. She would not use that arm at all and just kept it straight beside her. Well on Monday morning, the pain came back and she was screaming again in pain. This time she just kept her arm straight and never moved it but didn't seem to be screaming in pain that much. She would scream if we tried to move it and she said she just wanted to sit in the car -not getting out to go to the bathroom or anything on our way home. This time the pain lasted into the night. Several times she awoke in the night screaming of the pain. Tom even got up with her a few times trying to console her and figure out what this pain was. He went to work that night at 2:30 am and said he would talk with a doctor. Well, 3:30 rolls around and he came back for Merrick. He took her in as the doctor thought she should have an x-ray. I stayed home with Macy and Cole. I guess the doctor felt her wrist and thought she had broken that, but the x-ray didn't show that. Merrick and daddy returned at 6:00 am-no broken arm but her arm was put in a splint. The doctor didn't know for sure what it was, he suspected nursemaid's elbow, but thought she was too old to have that. So we were told to leave it in the splint for two-three days and follow up with our doctor. Since two days was New Years, I thought I would call and set up an appointment for Friday, since I have to work then. In talking with the nurse, she seemed confused why they put a splint on her arm if it really was nursemaid's elbow. She told me she would call the hospital to se what the radiologist said about the x-ray and then she would call me back. She finally returned my call and said that our doctor wanted to see us that day. I loaded Merrick and Macy and left for the doctor. When Dr. John looked at Merrick, he diagnosed nursemaid's elbow and popped it back into place. Nursemaid's elbow is basically when a child (ages1-4) dislocates their elbow. It happens when they get their armed pulled (how many times do we pull kiddos by their hands, swing them in the air, lift them up with just their hands, etc.) It just needs to be popped back into place and it is immediately fixed, just as Merrick's was after Dr. John fixed it. Unfortunately, the ER did nothing, strange huh. Atleast her arm is fixed and she doesn't have to wear the silly splint. We do feel bad though for telling her to move her arm and not believing she was in pain.