Girlie

Just a little update in case anyone is curious. Lillie was supposed to get a new shorter cast today. But after looking at the X-rays the doctor said that there had been a little radial drift and felt like it would be premature to put the other cast on. I'm not totally sure what that means but I assumed it just meant that the bones where the break is moved a little on the radius bone. Which is the bigger of the two bones in the arm.

That was a little disappointing but after he explained that the cast would have still gone around her elbow to prevent her arm from being able to twist, it sounded like it would not have been too much better than the one she has on now. I'm not really sure how that would have worked but the doctor said that she would have been able to bend her elbow but still wouldn't be able to twist her arm, and her hand would just still be palm up.

Lillie was sad that she didn't get to choose a new color. She was going to go with yellow or red if they had those colors.

The doctor first said we could come back in a week and get that other kind of cast, and then he thought for a little and said we could just leave this cast on that she has for another two weeks and then just get it off completely and she would go home with a brace thing that could be taken on and off. I told him to just tell us which ever he thought would be best. So we'll go back again in two weeks and see if the cast can come off! Hopefully her arm is healing properly and there won't be any other problems from it.

And as you can see from that picture, her cast is not slowing her down too much. It is probably more of a pain to me because she needs help with more things and keeping it dry is a pain. But I know that it will be a short time and it will just be a memory.