I am one of those mums who always see the darkest - I can see potential risk everywhere. Though I am trying not to get crazy - I keep those thoughts usually for myself. Going for a first long and distant trip, of course I had fears that something would happen to Gaia and we would need to check out local hospitals. That's why I wasn't convinced to go to an island or any other wild place. I admire parents who can do that -I can't.
Fortunately, nothing really bad happened. But we actually visited the NY hospital. One evening in Central Park, after a visit to the zoo, Gaia was running like crazy on the meadow and didn't want to stop. She had only a morning nap that day and we should have known that she was very tired (masked behind happiness). And then suddenly she started to cry, none of us saw what happened. The cry was different that usual and we saw she is in pain showing her arm. We tried to calm her down, run to a taxi and after a few hours managed to put her to sleep. I am not a medical expert but supposed that if anything was broken or twisted, it would swell. And nothing did. However, in the morning Gaia didn't let us touch her hand and did not move the left arm. So we went to the pediatric ER. They were such professionalists! We did an X-ray and the doctor examined Gaia's arm which in the end had a dislocated part of the elbow. The superb nice lady put the elbow back in place and we left the hospital very relieved and with presents for Gaia:)
Btw, it' s advisable to have an insurance!

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