She attended a friend's birthday party at the local skating rink and fell, with her left leg coming down hard on the wheels of her right skate.
We weren't there at the time and sadly I missed the message and phone call, so it was almost 45 minutes after she was hurt that we arrived. Her dad knew it was broken immediately upon seeing how swollen it was. SP has very tiny little legs, well her left one looked like a football :(
One ambulance ride later we were at the local hospital where I was told by one of the EMT's "she's strong." Yes, yes she is. Far stronger than a little girl should be. You see SP wasn't crying, she was upset and had shed tears, but mostly she was mad that she had gone skating and had skated too fast and had fallen and gotten hurt so badly she couldn't stand on her leg. She did not know yet that it was broken.
Some medicine and a few xrays later we had the official word that it was a break in her tibia and they were going to need to transport her up to the Children's Hospital for surgery to place a rod.
SP's Daddy would make the over hour ride up with her while her brother Jman and I went home to pack what we would need for the night. We arrived only 15 minutes after the transport did.
The great news was a rod was not needed! Just a cast for several weeks. The decision was made to let gravity do the work and pull her bone back into place and then cast it. Once again SP amazed us all....I know I would have been crying like a baby over that-especially the long needle that the Dr used to numb the area.
So it was put in a cast, then the cast was cut on both sides to accommodate swelling, then an ace bandage was wrapped around it that we could tighten or loosen as needed.
The 1st week was rough. Thankfully a wheelchair was delivered to the house to help get SP around since the leg had to remain immobile. The bad news was SP's daddy was leaving for a week long business trip and I had been fighting a nasty sinus and chest infection.
SP remained her chipper self, and tried to stay as positive as she could
We had her follow-up appointment 1 week after and she got another xray- bones were still in a good position- yay! and she got to pick out another cast- green and purple! but sadly still a long cast up to her thigh.
That morning we also had an eye follow-up and got the great news that the steroid eye drops has squashed the inflammation! Clear eyes once again! YES!
after an already long day with eye and cast appointments we were sent downstairs for some PT with a walker to help SP get around safely if she needed to.
It's been a week since then and we haven't really had much luck with the walker, but she is able to hold on to us and hop on her good foot down the few steps of our house.
We haven't been very adventurous in going out of the house. The wheelchair is far too large and heavy to transport, so we got a simple transport chair to use for outenings. So far that has included the orthodontist (palate expanding is going great! 5 more cranks and she's done!), a shopping trip, visit to a friend's house and just the trip to the children's hospital. BUT we are hoping to take a short trip up to CT soon, that will be interesting!
Oh and we also made it to see Finding Dory- super cute movie!
and my super cute girl :)
Next cast appointment is July 20th, hoping for good news and a short cast then!
Also really praying that SP gets a few weeks out of the cast before school begins the end of August.
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