The Cast

So it has been a few days since my last David blog. Life has been anything but boring, but in Davids case....no news is good news!

Thursday Z and I took David back to Wesley so that they could assess his leg and see if further surgery on the bone was necessary or if they could simply cast it. If you remember, after he broke his right femur....when they got in there they found his bone to be extremely soft and there were questions as to how well it would heal. They put him in a splint for the first 3 weeks just to make sure that the bone was healing properly before they put the actual cast on it.

When we got there Thursday he was taken to pre-op but luckily in light of his recent pain or suspicion that he might be in pain melt downs (he is just so over people messing with him) they decided to hold off on an IV until and unless they knew it would be necessary. Instead they gave him oral versed to relax him and a DVD player loaded with Spongebob as we awaited the doctor. After talking to nurses, anesthesia, residents and finally the doctor, we were well versed in their plan of action and David was ready to head to the OR. The plan? To have him relaxed, take an x-ray of the leg and depending on how the bone looked....proceed from there.

If the bone looked like it was not healing properly, then they would have to go in and redo the screws and reset the leg. In other words, full on surgery again and most likely another hospital stay. However, if  it looked good....they would cast it and we would be on our way. I was pretty hopeful that it would be the latter as I could tell in the last week or so that David was not in any pain with the leg. I was correct. Within 30 minutes, Dr. K was in the waiting room telling us that his leg was doing much better than she had anticipated and that the bone was healing beautifully with bone growing strong around the break. I attribute this to the literal tons of calcium and calcium rich foods that I have inundated his diet with. Yay calcium!

So in the end versed and a little gas were all that was needed to keep him calm and comfortable during the x-ray and casting. He came out with a beautiful blue cast and instructions to bring him back in 3 weeks to have this cast removed. Hopefully THEN we will be able to start down the path towards physical therapy. Thank goodness, as we are going to be playing catch up after being a couple of months behind.

As for Davids hips (his original surgery in December), I think they are doing amazing. He seems to have no pain at all and perhaps the extra time of his legs being in casts and splints has been a positive in the straightness of his lower extremities. No more do I see the bowing of his legs from his hips to his knees. In fact, now it is just an amazingly straight line, although his legs are very thin, but hopefully with the large amounts of calcium mixed with a lot of added protein (yeah we are doing that too), once the PT starts his legs will start too look more human and less bird like!

We have begun spring break and this year it is taking on a very different look than that of spring breaks past. There are many things that we need to accomplish as a family along with a few hurdles that I am hoping after Monday will be in the rear view mirror with only blue skies and David walking in our future. The weather is actually getting warmer, although tomorrow is suppose to be a bit of setback, but other than that....spring may actually be trying to shove its way in through the cold and snow!

So here we stand. David is in a good place right now although bored to death. Hopefully a more regular schedule will resume after the break. Z will soon graduate and with a lot of prayer and a little luck this family will be back on much more even and positive ground.

Our next Dr. K visit should be in 3 weeks and then look out world and PT because David is gonna walk!