We recently have acquired some new equipment at our house. Allow me to introduce you to
"Hopper"
and "Bolt".
It has been a crazy couple of weeks at our house. Three weeks to the day that I had Kael, Kaiden broke his leg right above his knee. He tripped over the our neighbors' dogs and landed just right to break his femur. We didn't know that he had broken it because he didn't seem that upset. About 5 minutes later he started screaming and Jason took a closer look. He put him in the suburban and headed to the ER. I met him there as soon as I could leave the kids and by that time they had decided that he would probably need surgery and wanted to take him via ambulance to another hospital.
At the second hospital, we met a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who gave us the option to either do surgery right then and insert rods and screws into his leg or putting him in a full body cast (yes, you read that right) for up to 4 months. We opted for the surgery to save all of us from going crazy having a 5 year old trapped in a full body cast. They took him in for surgery and admitted him to stay the night.
It was quite the experience but he did really well. I was surprised at how calm he was. The highlight for him was riding in the ambulance and having them turn the lights and siren on for him. Here is a picture of him in his bed right before he was discharged. He was loving the pain meds.
The good news is that he is healing very well. We saw the surgeon yesterday and she is pleased with his progress. We did have to pull him out of preschool until January and he is limited on what he can do, but he is plugging along. He is using the "hopper" at the house but begs for "bolt". He is crazy in that thing! My hope is that he will be able to start putting "tiptoe" weight on his leg in 2 weeks but we will see how that goes. We are just happy that things are healing well and are looking forward to getting things back to normal around here.
Poor thing was so tired that she didn't even make it to the top of the stairs.
The good news is that he is healing very well. We saw the surgeon yesterday and she is pleased with his progress. We did have to pull him out of preschool until January and he is limited on what he can do, but he is plugging along. He is using the "hopper" at the house but begs for "bolt". He is crazy in that thing! My hope is that he will be able to start putting "tiptoe" weight on his leg in 2 weeks but we will see how that goes. We are just happy that things are healing well and are looking forward to getting things back to normal around here.
