About Makes Me Want to Cry

This little boy of mine about makes me want to cry! I am so proud of him! I stayed home from work with him last Wednesday and he started walking!! I would leave the room to go and get something, turn around and there he was!! It has only been two weeks yesterday since he got his cast off and he is already walking, and climbing on things and generally getting into stuff!! Knowing all that he has gone through, it's just awesome to see him being so resilient and getting everything back. He doesn't walk perfectly and his muscles are pretty tired by the end of the day, but I am sure it's soon to come. Along with running!!!

Now, if we could just convince him that the potty is a good thing....

P.S. I think about blogging all the time and really want to, but it's been really hard lately. Be patient with me and keep checking I am still here!!!

Amazing

I think it is truly amazing what our bodies can do. ..

Friday, we went to Iowa City to have Casey's cast removed and then have his leg x-rayed. On the x-ray you can still see where the break was, but you can also see where the new bone has formed and already lengthened out to look like the original bone!! He was only in that cast for 7 weeks! I bet it'll only be a couple of years and they won't even be able to tell which leg was ever broken. Truly Amazing!

Getting back into our regular routine and acting so much more ourselves...
In case you are wondering, No, Casey can't walk yet. He tries to crawl, but after a few "steps" he ends up dragging his left leg. His spirits are good, as always, and he continues to try new things and figure out what he can and cannot yet do. He'll be up and running before we know it!! He has loved his baths, spending an hour or more in the second one he took, splashing and kicking his legs! It does my heart good to see him happy and being my baby again.



They had to "saw" up both sides of each leg of his cast and then they had a tool to pry it apart and then voila it just sort of popped off. I bought Casey a new Bob the Builder DVD for distraction, but it didn't really work. The nice nurse did show us on her hand that the "saw" didn't hurt, but it was loud and scary and not feeling the cast was pretty scary too!

Casey does say his leg hurts a little in certain postions, but we adjust and are heading out on this new adventure in our lives with our little ones.

Casey trys new things

Okay, so I know that I'm really bad with posting lately...sorry. I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed. I have taken some pictures though, so I thought I'd share a few of the new things Casey has been doing.

Oh and by the way, we had our follow up dr.'s appt. and our sentence has been lessened by 1 week. Instead of 7 weeks, we now go back in 6!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here's Casey singing outside on a blanket, first time he was willing to try to be somewhere other than his wagon, outside...






Here's a fort we made and drug all of the toys we could think of into...Nothing much has changed there.



Probably not the best idea, but he had a ball!!!!!!!!!




Finally, when Daddy got home, we were able to enjoy a little swing to end our great day!!!!

Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Posting...

Casey has been afraid to be moved much or try new things. I suppose it is scary to be lifted around and not really be able to move your legs and you don't know if it's going to hurt or not because it has hurt really badly to be touched at all in the near past. We finally convinced him to try laying on his tummy and he loves it! He can reach his toys so much better to play with us or by himself! He is being such a good boy! Only occassionally does he ask to walk, swing, ride a 4-wheeler, etc. And he doesn't get upset when he realizes what he is asking. I couldn't ask for a better patient. We go for a follow up doctor's appointment tomorrow for an x-ray of his leg to see how it's healing and find out exactly how long the doctor wants to keep him in his cast. He had said 2 months before so that's what we're assuming. One week down...Stay tuned...

Hindsight is 20/20

This first fun combine ride of the fall led to....

This visit to the Operating Room at University of Iowa Hospital which was the third hospital we'd been to and about 22 hours later...


Casey, Carter and Emily went for a ride around the yard with Al in the combine as we were trying to get ready for fall harvest. I took a bunch of pictures and went back in the house. As they were all getting down, Emily went down a couple of steps and just hopped off the combine. We think Casey watched her and thought, "Well, if sissy can hop off, so can I" and then he stepped off the combine and fell 6 feet. Obviously he was crying, so they brought him to moma and then he said, "My leg, my leg!" Al felt his leg and heard a crunch so we rushed to the ER. They x-rayed and sent us on to another hospital where we stayed overnight just getting morphine for Casey. His leg was having spasms and everytime he cried. That first hospital wanted to do surgery and put a pin in his leg and leave him in traction for 4 to 6 weeks and then put him in a hip spika cast which goes over his belly button and down over his toes, for another 2 months. UGH!!! We asked for a second opinion and ended up in Iowa City at the University of Iowa Hospitals and clinics which has specialized pediatric orthopedic surgeons. They opted to do nonevasive surgery and set his femur and put him in a hip spika cast for about 2 months and then hopefully he will be all done! He gets to go home today already and back for a check up in one week. He chose bright orange for his cast because it is his favorite color. This hospital is definitely the right choice for Casey and us. The doctors have been great! I would recommend them to anyone who needed help. I'll post more once we get home. Just wanted to update everyone on our last 48 hours...