Brokens

This past weekend we went to my cousin Chantelle's home coming. It was a great weekend. She did a great job reporting on her mission and we had a lot of fun visiting with everyone. Late afternoon on Sunday, when it was time to go and we had sent everyone to the bathroom and I was making the rounds saying goodbye to everyone, Lizzy was playing on the tramp getting her last few jumps in. She was playing with my cousin's girl her same age and they were the only to on the tramp when she fell and landed on her foot funny. She started crying and screaming, "my foot, my foot, I broke my foot, I broke my foot, I need to go to the hospital." I figured she had just rolled her ankle and that she was over reacting a little (sometimes Lizzy does that). We got her calmed down and hopped in the car for our 4 hour drive home.
Even after we got in the car she kept saying it was hurting and before we got an hour down the road we could see it swelling. We stopped at a Wal-mart right off the freeway and got so ibuprofen and zip-lock bags to put ice in. We iced her foot on the way home and she feel asleep before we got home but the foot was still swollen. I decided if she still couldn't walk on it in the morning I'd take her into the doctors. The next morning the foot seamed about the same.
We got into our doctor (whom we love) early Monday morning. They x-rayed her foot and he thought it looked like she had fractured her growth plate in her ankle. Because it was growth plate and you have to make sure it heals right he got us an appointment with a podiatrist that afternoon.
The idea of going to a specialist made me worry a little but when we got there he was relay nice and pretty much told us the exact same thing our doctor had told us, (way to go Dr. Hoggard). She had fractured the growth plate and she would have to wear a cast for 3 week. He reassured me that these brake usually heal with no problem and that he will check and make sure when we come back in three weeks.

Here is Lizzy hanging out on the couch when we got home. It was an emotionally exhausting day for both of us.

She can walk on her cast and is doing great now. She even has this funny hop skip jump thing she does to kind of run. We have given her a little bit of ibuprofen but it really hasn't bugged her much.

Now we just pray that everything heals right.

By the way that is three kids and three cast and if anyone is counting I only have tree kids.