Monday, December 24, 2007
How do you keep a two year old from walking?.....
I didn't think that it would ever happen to our child, but we have our first broken bone. I don't know why I never though it would happen, doesn't everyone have to deal with at some point? Anyway, on Friday Siobhan was walking down the stairs and took a nasty spill. When I say nasty, I mean NASTY....the type a stunt man would do in a movie complete with somersaults and bouncing. I was walking right behind her so I witnessed the whole thing. So I immediately scooped her up and gave her loves and cuddles and after a while she went about her way playing and being her normal self...with the exception of a very noticeable limp. I figured maybe a sprained ankle and there would be nothing I could do about it. Well, by Saturday she wouldn't even attempt to walk and would instantly get down to crawl if she needed to go anywhere. No 2 year old would do that if they didn't have to. Then I noticed some odd swelling. So I called a friend who happens to be physical therapist and he said to get her into urgent care as we were getting into the holiday. So I took her Saturday afternoon and we had X-Rays done on her left leg. She thought those were pretty cool and did very well making her foot 'say cheese' while they took the cool pictures. Once they came back, sure enough there was a fracture in both bones in her left shin. Luckily there was no displacement or anything like that, so she won't need surgery. We do however need to go see a pediatric orthopedist after Christmas to have it looked at further and to have it permanently casted. (I didn't even know they had specialists like that). Right now she's in a temporary cast that doesn't slow her down too much. We figured that she would have it off as soon as she figured out that it wasn't too hard to take off. It actually wasn't until we were at church with the help of her friend Lola that she started to take it off. And by the end of the first meeting at church, all the toddlers were scooting around on their bums like Siobhan. Oh well...2 year olds! We're supposed to keep her off her leg for like a month....how do you do that? So long story short, well not really, we won't be going sledding for Christmas. I'll post some pictures as soon as she gets her permanent cast. We're thinking red and then we can draw Elmo on it for her. She'll love it!
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