Fall from Tree

Makaela!

Friday, July 22, 2011

A 20 foot climb up the large cottonwood tree ended up with bad results.  Makaela had a note to deliver to the Fairy.  The note was undiscovered on the small fairy house Makaela placed at the base of the tree, so she was sure if she placed it up high in the tree in an empty bird nest, that she would surely find it!  A small branch that Makaela held on to could not hold her weight and she came crashing down.... hitting and breaking another branch and landing on top of a barbed wire fence before hitting the ground.  She knew she was in trouble when she could not move her leg.  She yelled for help, and thankfully a neighbor heard her cries and came rushing over.  Both Kelsey and Chad were at work, but were soon contacted.  Chad got to the house just after the ambulance got there.  Kelsey was already at the hospital, where she had just dropped off a patients blood work.  

After taking x-rays, the picture showed a badly broken right femur.  An emergency surgery was scheduled to repair the brake.  She was in surgery for 2 1/2 hours.  Twenty nine stitches were put in her right arm, as well, to sew up the cut from the barbed wire fence.   Ouch!