First Broken Bone

Well, we had our first cast experience in 10 years! Of the five kids, it was Tessa, the youngest! It happened a couple of Thursdays ago at my sister Becky's house. She was just walking around and fell over a toy. It didn't phase her one bit. When I got to Becky's house after school, Becky told me what happened and that her lower arm above the wrist was swollen a little, but it didn't seem to bother her. Many people moved it around many different ways and she didn't flinch! So we just watched it. Over the weekend, Terry and I did notice that once in awhile when she fell on it that she would whimper a little but nothing else. Monday we decided that we should take her in to have it looked at! Guess what?? It was fractured!! Right away when the doctors looked at the x-ray it was obvious! She was a trooper for the day with going from one doctor to another to getting x-rays, etc. She did get to the point that when we would get in a room she would look for the door and point to it to go out of the room. I was doing my best to keep her distracted! After school, Terry, Karley and I took Tessa to go get her cast! Karley picked out the pink color.Even though the brake is down by her wrist, they had to cast it past her elbow so she couldn't get her hand out of it! Tessa was not a fan of having the cast put on! I got to hold her but she let us know loud and clear she didn't like it! After it was dry, she tried pulling it off! Finally, we got her distracted and where able to head home. When we got back to Becky's house to get the rest of the kids, Tessa got out of my arms right away to go see Truman and Aloyisous. The cast didn't seem to bother her then. Her siblings and cousins were all very interested of what happened to Tessa! The cast has not slowed her down too much! She has been getting use to using her left hand now instead of her right hand! As you see with her eating the apple below! Now you have to be careful around her because if she gets swinging her arm she may get you! We went for a follow up last Monday and all is looking good! New bone is growing! The doctor was impressed by how well she was doing with the cast and that it hasn't fallen off. He said it looked great! We'll see how it looks in 4 weeks! As of now, she has the cast on until November 22!! It does look cute, being so small!