My daughter’s broken ankle
It’s a very sad day in our house, my friends.
My adorable, feisty, two year old has a broken ankle.
Yesterday about 11am(ish) she was fighting with her sister over a hat. Her sister (3 years old) yanked, and Abby stepped forward to regain her balance and landed on one of the big kid-sized legos and fell.
And screamed.
My god, she screamed.
I held her until she wanted down, I figured she was in pain from stepping on the corner of a lego (I tell you from personal experience, that hurts!) but later that day and into the evening, she still couldn’t put any pressure on her foot.
Hoping it would go away overnight Randy and I decided we’d let her sleep and if she still couldn’t walk on it in the morning we would take her into Urgent Care (the place in between a doctor’s office and an emergency room.)
Come morning, she still screamed when she put weight on it, but when we felt the foot, ankle, shin, and knee…she didn’t flinch or cry out at all. We were so confused and didn’t know what the problem was.
So I put her in the carseat and off we went to Urgent Care. We waited about an hour and then she got x-rays. Have I ever mentioned how paranoid x-rays make me? I’m there with this big led apron on, and they put a little led blanket on Abby and took the pictures.
Abby was such a trooper through the whole thing.
While we waited for the x-rays to come back, Dr. Nick came in and explained that children are very sensitive to pain and he thought that was probably what was happening. I was torn between praying for something to be wrong so I wasn’t a crazy overprotective mother, and hoping that there was nothing wrong because I’d rather be crazy and overprotective than for something to be wrong with my little girl.
Dr. Nick left, the nurse came in to give her some Motrin, and we waited for the results.
Then Dr. Nick called me out (Abby had fallen asleep by this time) and I looked at the x-rays with him on his computer screen. He showed me where her hairline fracture was and explained that when she put her weight on it there was axis pressure and that caused her mucho pain, but also explained why messing with her foot and ankle didn’t cause pain.
She got a temporary cast, and I have to take her into the doctor to get a real cast in the next day or so.
She will have the real cast on for about 4 weeks.
Needless to say I’m going to have to do things that can be done on the laptop, because the girls can’t entertain each other while Abby has a cast on her leg. Too dangerous.
Dr. Nick likened it to having a crack in the windshield. It doesn’t affect a whole lot and will heal in time (unlike a windshield) - but if something else happened, the bone could shatter or splinter in the spot that has the fracture.
My poor baby.
So if I don’t return emails promptly, or seem to not be around, you’ll know why. I have to go be a good mommy for the next 4 weeks. (But I can still update the blog from the laptop! Yea!)
On the bright side, they burned the x-ray images to a CD, so I can take them with me to her orthopedic physician. No waiting for things to be transferred, etc. Plus I can photoshop little red circles on them to show you where the break is.
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Oh man, that’s rough. I broke my wrist while roller skating as a kid and it hurt like heck. Hang in there, mom! I keep waiting for one of my kids to break something. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Cassie hasn’t - that child is scared of absolutely nothing.
Poor baby! I can’t imagine how hard that will be for her to even understand why she can’t walk and run and play like normal.
On the other hand I found myself laughing out loud at your Photoshop comment. Ha!
Hope the next 4 weeks fly by with little grief. You all have my prayers.
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Oh that’s so sad! I hope the next 4 weeks go by quickly and with ease. Poor girl.
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Oh! Poor little Abby! Give her hugs and kisses from me!
Oh! Oh! Oh! This is my first time at your blog (lovin’ it!) - and I’m doing a little namaste type bow to you - your patience as you went through this shines out!
Hope the four weeks go by super fast and your sweet girls can get back quickly to running and jumping and entertaining themselves a little.
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Oh I’m sorry about your baby. My daughter broke her foot a few years ago. She tripped in music class - imagine that?
Anyway, she didn’t cry she just kept telling the teacher she knew something was wrong and it felt broken. So the teacher called me. I went to get her she looked fine, no swelling nothing. But she said I really think it is broken and I think we should go to the doctors. So I took this wise 4th grader to the podiatrist to find out she was correct it was broken. Same thing, hairline fracture only hurt when she put pressure on it.
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Sounds like a good reason to break out the box of doughnuts, turn on Sesame Street, and snuggle on the sofa under a blanket with some great books and the dolls nearby. During the funny parts of watching Elmo, you’ll just have to break yourself away to use that laptop and the girls probably won’t even notice.
Hope it all goes smoothly, Jenny. And her ankle mends quickly. We’ll be thinking about you all.
Oh Gosh! No wonder you haven’t been around. Give hugs to Abby for me and hang in there mammabear…this will all be just a memory in a few weeks
That sucks!
Sorry!
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Poor Abby! I’m sure that she will be fine, but that has got to suck. Becca and I both hope she heals up quickly.
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