We are getting to know the wonderful people at the emergency room quite well. Mary broke her leg a couple weeks ago. She was jumping on a spare mattress in our basement and either landed wrong or collided with Stockton (We're not really sure--a babysitter was here when it happened).
The babysitter texted me that Mary wouldn't stop crying and kept pointing to her leg, but she didn't tell me what happened. I thought Mary must have tripped outside since that's where the kids were when we left. I texted the babysitter and told here to hold Mary and text me back in ten minutes and let me know how she is. Ten minutes later she said Mary was doing much better and was ready to go to bed. I thought that was the end of it.
The next morning, Mary wouldn't walk or stand. Clark also said she was whimpering in the night. We took her to the doctor and got her leg x-rayed and found out that she fractured her tibia. Poor girl. She was so tough! She wouldn't cry unless you pulled her leg a certain way. The rest of the time she seemed perfectly normal, with the exception of her not walking.
Mary's x-ray. It's hard to see the fracture but it starts at the arrow and goes almost perpendicular across the bone. You can see a faint black line:
Waiting in the ER to get her splint:
Resting with her splint:
Mary in her cast. The first five days were extremely difficult. Mary was immobile so I had to carry her everywhere. Her splint added a good ten pounds to her too. Stockton and Tess were fighting with each other and fighting for my attention. Mary had a hard time using the potty. I thought that there was no way I could do this for 4-6 weeks. After the first five days, though, Mary started to scoot, which made things easier, and after a week, she started walking. The doctors said that is perfectly okay and normal for a child this age. From that point on, things have been pretty much back to normal. Going to to the bathroom is still a little tricky, but other than that, things are good. The cast is waterproof so she can take baths and she only needs to wear it for four weeks:
