Broken :-(

I have written this darned post 3 times in 3 days!  I have no earthly idea what is going on, but I am trying again... time number 4!  Blogger 'save' is broken.  

And worse than that... 

Stephenie is broken.  

She went horse back riding on Sunday and fell off her horse, Clyde.  He was hot and sweaty, she is inexperienced and he was being difficult.  One thing led to another, the saddle slid and down she went.  As you know, Clyde is HUGE and she fell onto concrete - a long way down to a very hard surface.

She is ok, but it will take a lot of healing.  She has a bruised shoulder, bruised hip and very broken arm.  She dislocated it and twisted it backwards at the elbow; it was nasty.  Today, she went back in to an ortho Dr who had done an MRI.  He said she will need to see a surgeon for her elbow on Monday.  She has two fractures, one chip and ALL her ligaments and tendons are severed - as in severed in half.  That means there is nothing holding the bottom half of the arm to the top half of the arm.

I can make this a real long story, but I won't.  I will just tell you that the rest of the story involved being very far (extremely) out in the country, ambulance and emergency vehicles trying to find us, 2 terrified children, 4 adults (one whom was very injured), 2 trucks with 2 horse trailers, one motorcycle, 4 horses and one unknown pit bull - who thank God was friendly, just very curious - and did I say we were very, very far out in the country?

Two of the adults had to drive horse trailers back and unload horses; can't load them in trailers and leave them...  One adult had to drive a Harley; can't leave the Harley...  And one adult had to ride in an ambulance 30 miles to the hospital - by herself.  The horse trailers were going 20 miles in the opposite direction.  

Oh my gosh is it an awful feeling to have your daughter all alone, injured, riding off into the sunset, knowing there is no way you can follow - 

Nearly an hour and a half later we enter the ER.  So very long... 

No moma wants to see her daughter like this:

And no moma wants to see this x-ray of their daughter's arm (after relocation):

And one day later, no mom wants to see another x-ray of her daughter's arm looking like this:

This has been a rough few days for her.  Todd came in and has taken over her care.  She cannot do anything at all - there is no stabilization in her arm whatsoever.  She is in extreme pain.

But in time she will heal.

And that is what counts.

Thank God time will make her better.  She is, after all, our 'baby girl'.