Femur News

What a week I've ended up having.... sorry for the delay in a next post. But on my way to pick up lunch for a girlfriend of mine and myself on Wed I get a phone call from my kid's school. Grace has fallen off the monkey bars and is in the nurses office with ice on her leg. I ask if it's broken, "no" is the answer I get, they pretty much tell me that the only reason they are calling is because on her medical form I wrote that I wanted a phone call for any reason that my child is in the nurses office (which is true i've heard some horror stories) I tell them thanks for calling and when I come get Presley if Grace is still in the office I'll come check on her. I get my lunch and am on my way to my friends house when the phone rings again, this time i can hear her screaming. So off I go to the school to have a looksie for myself. There she was sitting on the nurses table crying. I feel her leg, and right above her knee she screams when you touch it. So I call her Dr office, make her an appointment to be seen. I have help moving her to my car and after dropping Presley off at my sisters, Grace and I took the longest car ride to her DR's office. Every pot hole, every divot in the road, ever turn, ever stop and start made my little baby cringe and whimper in pain. Once at the DR office we go straight to radiology for an X-ray. I got a wheel chair to wheel her in and we waited in the waiting room. Once they called her name we went in the back "ankle hurts huh?" the teach ask's me... "nope her leg, above her knee" Once Grace realized that we had to pick her up again she started screaming.. "DON'T TOUCH ME!!!! DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!!" I picked her up, layed her on the x-ray table, she's screaming in pain telling us not to touch her. The techs ask her to lay her leg flat.. she screams "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! IMPOSSIBLE!!!!" after the techs tried to force her leg down a bit, and her continuing to scream at them they decided to just take the x-ray and see what they got.
And this is what we all saw......

Clearly, her saying it was impossible to lay flat was true. She snapped her femur bone an inch or two above her knee cap. Poor POOOOOR baby. I felt terrible, as soon as that picture came over the machine I almost threw up and started to cry.. I couldn't begin to imagine the pain she was in, all the movement we had her doing, all the times I looked at her and said "Grace.. common" made me feel like such an ass. Once we saw her DR they sent us to Children's Hospital. Once there, there was a lot of waiting, lots of hemming and hawing.It's a pretty big bone to brake from a monkey bar's fall, and the DR's know why it happened. She has a mass/tumor/lesion/ something on her bone. Something that made it weak. We are told it's probably nothing, that it's not uncommon for kids to have these build ups of calcium. BUT they can't say for sure, for sure that it's nothing, but more than likely it is nothing. We were told to not worry about it AT ALL, and the dr would worry about it a little bit, suuuuuure we as parents are told that your child COULD MAYBE POSSIBLE have cancer on their bone's but.... don't worry.. i'm sure it's nothing. Sure, i'll do that. We got to the hospital at 2 and at 9:30 PM they took her to the OR to set her leg and cast it. We were told that she would be in a cast from her high waist down to her toes, and she'll be in a wheel chair for 6 weeks. This will be a fun 6 weeks....

being in a cast, and having an IV in her arm won't stop my little artist from drawing

Her panda

Daddy feeding her lunch

I think she's going to milk this for all it's worth, and I don't blame her

It's going to be a long 6 weeks, you forget how dependent they are on you. for EVERYTHING, thirsty, hungry, going to the bathroom, itching their toes, handing them things... oye.. give me strength I'm going to need it.