Crutches Aren't Fun!

The Tues before Thanksgiving Heidi hurt her foot at dance. She called the house and asked us to come get her from dance - early. So we picked her up, looked at her foot and determined that yes, she had hurt her foot - put ice on it and it will fix it up! It was swolen and bruised, but not to crazy. By the description of what she did - some kind of turn and her foot rolled, we figured she just pulled something - strained something - no big deal.

So we decided she should go to school Wednesday and then she could stay off of it and nurse it for the long weekend. Well, Wed afternoon it wasn't looking too good, so we called my brother Marc, who is a physical therapist and asked him if we should bring her in. He had Hillary do some things to check it and said it was probably some pulled something or other and to ice it (which we were) put an ace bandage on it and stay off of it and he would check it the next day at Thanksgiving.

So, Thanksgiving night he comes over and takes a look at it. By now it's a lovely shade of purple and blue and it's not too swolen. But it hurts to walk on. He took one look at it and said, "this isn't what I thought it was. I'm pretty sure it's broken and she need's to have it checked." BUMMER! So, I ask him if the podiatrist isn't open on Friday could it wait until Monday when they open again. He thought that would be ok as long as she didn't walk on it at all. Until then she had been hobbling around on it. So we continued the ice all weekend and got her some crutches and on Monday morning (I let her stay home from school this time!) we went to see Dr. McKay. YEP, it's broken! So, the poor kid had been hobbling around for almost a week before we did anything! There goes my chance at Mother of the Year!

We were blessed that although it's a pretty bad fracture - one that takes alot of time to heal - everything was still in place, so she didn't have to have surgery. Also, he put Heidi in a removeable cast. She is so lucky to be able to take a shower and not have one of those miserable plaster casts! She has to have it on 24/7 unless she's bathing. She is on crutches for at least 3 weeks. We've already gone for the 2nd visit and he threatened her with the plaster cast because someone told on her... (I really didn't know he would make such a big deal of it, or I would have kept my mouth shut!) She had been taking the cast off while she was laying there doing homework, but apparently, that's NOT ok! She has been very good since that visit! We go back in a week and she may get to lose the crutches and walk on the cast. I think she will be very glad for that day! Of course, school will be out for Christmas Break, but at least there will be no crutches for Christmas! I told her Santa would have to take back the skateboard he got her. She didn't seem too concerned!

Luckily, dance is over for the month of December. And the recital isn't until April. So, she will be spending January observing. She also will miss being in the Fiesta Bowl Parade! We were sad about that!

She's really been a pretty good sport about it all! Of course, it probably is pretty nice to be waited on hand and foot, not have to do your Saturday chores or pretty much anything else! It was nice though to have her sit and do all the cookie dough rolling on baking day Saturday! What else could she do???

These pictures are about 2 weeks after the fracture, so most of the bruising is gone.