my back hurts

Well I think we set a record for how many days we can go without
missing school. Only not the kind you would hope for. Julia made
it the first full day. BUT....apparently she fell back in her chair
and hit a desk that is behind her. She did not tell the teacher nor
did she go to the nurse. Yet at around 5pm on Monday she keeps
telling me her back hurts bad, her head hurts, her chest hurts. Ok
I am thinking she just doesn't want to go to school the next day. I
massage her back, put a hot pad on it, give her Moltrin, and she
still complained, I give her a hot stone massage (spoiled child yes
I know). She even asked me to take her to the doctor untill I
explained that after dinner time it would mean going to the
hospital. She wanted none of that. All the while I am asking her
all kinds of questions, did she fall?, did she get hit? She makes
up this very elaborate story about how one of the new girls got mad
at her for getting to see Cinderella and hit her in the back causing
her to fall back into the desk and hurt her back. HMM???? I asked
if she told the teacher, if the other girl got in trouble, if she
say the nurse....No, no and no. So I am thinking this is one fishy
story. I see no bruises or obvious signs of trauma. This child
doesn't want to go to school. I finally get her on to sleep ....in
our bed. She tosses and turns all night, breathing fast and heavy
despite her oxygen, and talks in her sleep. Yesterday morning comes
and she has a headache, stomach ache, and her back hurts really
bad. Again I am thinking she doesn't want to go to school. She has
no fever and again no signs of problems on the back. I talk her
into going on and let her bring her oxygen....more of a "safety
blanket" kind of thing. Well by 8:30 am her teacher is calling me
saying Julia is acting really sick saying her head hurts, her back
hurts and her stomach is hurting. She told me "I am all new to this
medical issue thing". Sigh! I send my mom to go get Julia. At
lunch I go check on her. Mom said she had a low grade fever and had
given her Moltrin and that Julia was sleeping with her oxygen on and
had been sleeping since 9 am. So at 1pm I call the doctor and take
her in. He can't find anything wrong with her back, despite her
telling him it hurt bad...."a 12 on 1 to 10 momma". He does however
say she has nice green snot in her sinuses. Lovely!
We leave with orders to start zithromax, mucinex, singular, flonase,
periactin, and lots of water. Still complaining of the back. So I
call my chiropractor who tells me to just bring her on in. He
examines her first as he says he didn't want to do an x-ray if it
wasn't necessary on a young kid. He feels along her back with her
saying ouch all the way. Finally he has her lay down on her tummy,
and again massages and pokes and prodes. Then POP! He popped her
back and she says "AWWWW that was it!". She was fine after that.
He said she had popped a rib up over the other one. WHAT!!!??? OMG
I felt horrible as I have done that and man oh man does that hurt.
I could hardly breath when it happened to me. Which would explain
the 89% o2 stat she had in the doctor's office. She was fine this
morning and was eager to go to class.
So this school year is off to a wonderful start. HA HA HA
Jenn