Guess who this foot belongs to?Not hard to figure out since I only have 1 child who would choose a pink cast!!
Wednesday 10/29 Hayley woke up and complained that her ankle was bothering her... I asked her what happened and she said "oh I twisted it in chorus last week" Yes she said LAST WEEK... Hello, maybe we could have mentioned this um LAST WEEK!
Figuring she just sprained it we wrapped it up in an ace bandage and sent her off to school.
I personally was upset because since she had chorus Hayley had been to cheerleading practice 4 times, cheered at 1 game and Gymnastics class. Who can help but wonder how she could have done this and never complained not 1 time about any pain. Selfishly I was thinking about her upcoming cheer competitions and I though if it was sprained and she stayed off it for the last week then maybe she could have still participated...
Thursday she woke up in even more pain that the day before. I got her into the doctor @ 9:30 am. Dr. looked at her and Hayley didn't say much hurt and Dr. says "I think it's just a sprain, I don't see any need for an Xray" Then Hayley went to stand up and got a sharp pain and Dr. said "ok maybe an Xray just to be on the safe side". Off to the lab. The Xray Dr. showed us her xray and said, " It's not a clear break but something is not right" OK so what the heck does that mean??? He is a foreign man and hard to understand after some silence he says "we need to xray her good foot". Ok time for more xrays oh yeah and more waiting.
The "good" foot Xray comes back and all the Dr. will say now is "it's just not right, I don't really want to say, you need to go to an Orthopedic". REALLY? now I feel like I am talking to one of the boys when I caught them doing something they shouldn't be. What kind of Dr. says things like that?
We'll back to our Primary Care Dr. so we can get a referral for the Orthopedic. Of course, Hayley is miserable and keeps saying "I should have just stayed in school, I missed lunch, I missed the raffle, this is boring" because obviously I am having the friggen time of my life!!! Did I mention it is now 12:52 pm?
Our Primary Dr. is busy calling anyone they can to try and get her seen today, at this time there is talk of going to the emergency room @ Children's... which I am really hoping for since that won't require any waiting time (Ok total sarcasm there). Finally, the great nurse gets a Dr. in Amherst to see her but in order for us to get there for the time the have available we need to leave immediately.
We get to the Ortho and even though we needed to rush there, we sat in the waiting room for another 70 minutes! Yes more than an hour past our appt. time!!! The appt time I went "a little" over the speed limit to get to! Why exactly do Doctors make appointment times? The funny thing about Doctors is that if you are 15 minutes late for your appointment they reserve the right to reschedule, but they can be as late as they want and they don't even give a discount :(
Finally it's Hayley's turn. She is barely up on the exam table and they announce, "oh this is getting casted, she broke the growth plate!" It was such an obvious declaration!
All of the annoyance & boredom of the day is instantly gone of Hayley's face and now horror has set in. After picking out her cast color she looks at me and says, "I can't compete?" Yeah, Um NO Duh! (only thought that I didn't say it). Cheerleading competition is this Sunday & next Sunday.... she is crushed!!
Less than 1/2 hour later we get to go home... and it's only 3:30!!
How does an 11 year old girl walk around with a broken foot for a week and not complain? Obviously she takes after her mother and has an amazing high tolerance for pain :)
She has come to terms with it all and after less than 24 hours she is becoming an expert crutch worker, although, she keeps stepping on it when she thinks I'm not looking. Apparently the broken finger from April which healed all crooked because she wouldn't stop doing handsprings on it didn't teach her anything! Here's hoping for a normal foot?
