Happy freakin' birthday
 

Yesterday my daughter turned 12.

She broke her arm. On her birthday.

Not only that......Her 6th grade class takes a 4 day trip to San Diego every January to go whale watching, take educational tours at the zoo, wild animal park, and Sea World. For Christmas, we bought her participation in the Dolphin interaction program at Sea World on the day they'll be there. They have to wear a full wet suit. Called Sea World this morning. Since she'll be in a cast (left forearm), the wetsuit won't fit over it, and she can't participate.

Talk about a disappointed 12 year old girl. :(

Poor kid!!!!:(

Are you sure there isn't something they can rig to cover the cast? They have plastic covers for showering- maybe they can improvise something. She might not be able to interact with the dolphins too much, but at least then she could still get in the water with them. If not, maybe there is something she could do instead that might be extra special?

I'm about to cry over here! :( :( :(

Isn't there anything Sea World does for the disabled??

Sorry about your kid, Leo. Just tell her that you're going to take her to Disneyland instead.
:)

The wife and I haven't talked about anything yet that we could possibly do to....compensate?....for the bummer of it all. My daughter has an EXTREMELY low pain tolerance, so without swelling or bruising, we figured she'd be over it this morning. She was still hurting pretty bad, though, so we took her to be xrayed this morning.

Sea World said the problem is that they have to wear a full wet suit, and the wet suit won't fit over the cast.

She's at the doctor right now - we're hoping since it's only a fracture that they might allow her to have some sort of removable splint until she gets back from San Diego.

To add to the disappointment, we had worked out with her best friend's parent that they would give their daughter the same interaction program for Christmas. So she was going to get to do it with her best friend.

Awwwwww! Poor girl!!!!! That just sucks.

I threw up once on my birthday, but that was after eating a ton of marathon bars and faux mint julips with green food coloring and doing the bunny hop up and down the stairs. Stained the carpet green though.

How did she break her arm?

Well....remember the saga of the trampoline and what a pain in the butt it was to put it in?

She was on the trampoline with a couple friends. She didn't fall off - we have an enclosure - but she fell over and landed on her left hand on the foot of another girl.

That is really a drag. :( :(

Here's hoping the fracture will be such that she can get by with some sort of wrap that will enable her to don a wetsuit and enjoy the dolphins.

Donna

I knew it was the trampoline. Those things are killers, man.