Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Nikki. Nikki loved playing with her toys and going on adventures. One day, she fell down and hurt her arm. Her father took her to the doctor, who said that they needed to take a picture of her arm to see if it was broken.
The doctor took Nikki to a special room with a big machine that looked like a camera. The machine was called an X-ray machine. The doctor asked Nikki to lie down on a table and hold very still while the machine took a picture of her arm.
Nikki was scared at first, but the doctor explained that the X-ray machine was like a magic camera that could see inside her arm. The X-rays went through her skin and muscles, but they couldn’t go through her bones. So when the X-rays hit her bones, they bounced back and made a picture of what was inside.
When the doctor looked at the picture, he could see that there was a very thin black line on the Nikki’s arm. He declared that Nikki’s arm was broken as the picture shows a hairline fracture. He put a cast on her arm to help it heal.
From then on, Nikki wasn’t scared of X-rays anymore. She knew that they were just like magic cameras that could help doctors see inside her body and make sure she was healthy.
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