This has DEFINITELY not been a good summer for sweet Haylee. Last night she was running outside and somehow she fell. She totally dislocated her knee. Her kneecap was on the side of her knee instead of on top. Brian and a few neighbor guys, much to my dismay, decided that an ambulance wasn't needed and they tried to move her into Brian's truck so we could take her in, but the second they tried lifting her she screamed. So I called 911 and got an ambulance out here and the fire truck came too. They pumped her full of morphine so they could move her into the ambulance without her hurting too much. Brian, Maddy, and I followed in our car. We went to Jordan Valley Medical Center.

They did x-rays on her and saw that it was dislocated and gave her propofol (it's nickname is Milk of Amnesia, and thanks to Michael Jackson's death, has been in the news a lot lately) to knock her out so they could pop her knee cap into place again. She was a stubborn little girl and would not go to sleep. They gave her enough that would have knocked out a 210 pound man. Everytime the doctor would come in, she would wake up and cry, well, scream, when they even touched her knee. They thought they finally got it but didn't hear the distinct pop you hear when it goes back into place and she was still unconsolable when they touched it so they ordered more x-rays. Haylee then asked if they had done the procedure yet. LOL That stuff works!! They said that the 2nd set looked almost the same as the first set of x-rays even though Haylee said it felt a little better. But still hurts her too much.

Well, the doctors are very stumped on how she got this injury because he said it was a "career ending injury that a football player would get." He said that it was more likely that she would have broken a bone than to have this injury. He also said that ligaments and tendons were probably torn which is making it impossible for the knee cap to pop back into place. So, we have to see an Orthopedic Surgeon on Tuesday. She is in a leg immobilizer right now and on narcotic painkillers.

I really hope that hospital visits are not going to be the new norm. This is hard on Haylee. :(



Her swollen knee.

Her leg brace

After trying to pop her knee cap back in.

EMT's working on her leg before loading her onto the ambulance

I am pointing to where her knee cap is. It's on the side of her knee.

Before trying to pop her knee cap back in.

Haylee's IV Bruise