Our Family is Raised on Love: Vacation to North Myrtle Beach

Two weeks ago, Kevin decided that he wanted to take a long weekend vacation just the 3 of us because we haven't done that before. So I started looking to where we could go and let me tell you trying to find a place at the beach for a few days, the week before you are planning to go, it's easy. But I finally found a place called Beach Cove Resort in North Myrtle Beach. We left last Thursday after lunch and came home yesterday afternoon. We had a great time. The place was very nice and Madalyn really enjoyed the beach and the pools. Taking a vacation with just the 3 of us, you don't have many opportunities to get pictures, due to the business of Madalyn, haha, but I did get a few.

Saturday: I do have to tell you about our Saturday, it began at 3:00am. Madalyn was up and didn't go back to sleep until 3:00pm (and yes Kevin and I were in a daze but she was going strong all that time.) We tried everything we could think of to get her back to sleep, including trying to tire her out on the beach and in the pool several times. Saturday night, we were coming off the beach around 8:00pm, and Madalyn didn't want to go, and she was crying and we had our hands full of stuff. She continued to cry all the way to the room and once we got in the room to get her bath she was screaming very loudly. We both thought she was hungry and tired. So we got her bathe, dressed and gave her a snack. Then I began to notice that she wasn't using her right arm at all and when she did move it, she would cry. I sent Kevin to find something for pain for her and while he was gone I decided to call Madalyn's doctor. She told me that Madalyn had a pulled bone in her arm and it needed to be set back in place and the sooner we got it done the better for Madalyn. So at about 9:20 pm we head to the Myrtle Beach ER with Madalyn. We were in and out within an hours time, so that was pretty good for the ER on a Saturday night. As soon as the doctor set her arm she forgot that it had hurt and she was moving it around and was fine. Due to us pulling her by her wrist to get her to come on with us and her pulling back not wanting to go, we had caused this to happen. They call it nurse's elbow, and it's very common to happen in children from age 1-5 years. They said it could easily happen again and showed us how to set it if it does. The doctor also said to make sure not to swing her by her hands or pull her up by her hands or wrist, to grab above the elbow or under her arms. Kevin and I felt so bad about it, but we were thankful it wasn't anything more than that. So our first ER experience with Madalyn wasn't so bad (not that you ever want to have to take your child to the ER ).

We were on the 8th floor