Josh and His Cast

I took Josh the the doctor yesterday because his right leg was bothering him around his shin area. He has been limping around, crying about having an owie, and wanting to be carried. Well we saw the pediatrician and did x-rays and then talked with the pediatrician about what to do. He said he couldn't see any hairline fractures, but that they don't always show up on x-rays. He also said that he did see something on the x-ray, but he didn't know what it was - so he said that we had three options:

• leave it be and see if it gets any better
• put him in a splint that night (last night) and make an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon for today or Friday
• put him in a regular cast

We made the decision to see the orthopedic surgeon and see what he said. So, we went to our appointment today, and long story short Josh got put into a boot (walking cast) and has to wear it until we go back on Wednesday & have the x-rays done again (because they didn't have the x-rays that we had done yesterday - Don't. Ask.) and then we'll see how it looks at that time and go from there. We waited in the waiting room for about 45 minutes and saw the doctor for about a minute. But, I guess that's the way it is. Luckily I had someone to watch Maddie - for 2 hours (so THANK YOU Heidi) and could concentrate solely on Josh. Let's see, what else? We have to treat this boot just like a regular hard cast. He has to wear it all of the time, can't even take it off for a bath (which Heidi pointed out - it's probably a good thing if Josh doesn't know it can come off), and the doctor said that he'll have to watch a lot of movies for a while. Um - I guess he doesn't know my kid. This might slow him down a little, but he's not going to stop!

So, it's going to be a long week - but we'll get through it, we don't have a choice! I'll post a picture of Josh in his little boot (more like a foot weapon) tonight.