So, the aforementioned Mae limp goes a little something like this. Early one week we noticed that when Mae ran she had a slight limp. Hmmm. She has such a beautiful, smooth run so the slight limp wasn't hard to notice. When asked if her leg hurt she said yes. We didn't think much of it the next few days, nor did she ever mention it, but we'd again see her run and see her limp. By the end of the week, the limp was even more apparent and she told us her leg hurt. The next day was Saturday and we took her into the doctor as now you could see the limp in her walk and she couldn't run fast enough to catch Anna anymore. I was pretty convinced she had some sort of stress fracture. After seeing her, the doctor believed the same thing I was thinking and we were off to get an x-ray. To my disbelief, the x-ray came back negative. Huh? So what is it? They told us if she was still limping by Monday to bring her in again. She was and we did. The next day, Tuesday, Lindsey took her down to a pediatric orthopedic specialist. After a bunch of tests and not really finding anything, they treated it like a fracture and casted her. They said sometimes you can't tell it's a fracture until it starts to heal. So...we'll see. The first evening with the cast was rough - it just broke my heart. Then when she calmed down but logically processed it in her head and realized, "Do I have to SLEEP with this!?" I wanted to cry for her. -T
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| Honey-flavored pretzels will make anything better |
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| X-Ray time! |
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| Like I said - Honey-flavored pretzels will make anything better |
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| 3 days later - now with a cast and a Band-Aid from the shot...luckily she's got Anna the nurturer there |
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| After a tough last couple hours of her new world - Mom made everything better with stickers |
