The "Mart's": March 2016

Alex Broke her leg on August 4th while on vacation in San Diego. She and H were coming down one of the "easy" water slides at Legoland and he accidentally fell on her in the water while trying to make sure she didn't go under water. The medic said that she had a sprain and to just take it easy with some ibuprofen. Next morning she still couldn't walk on it so off to the pedi. Sure enough as soon as they opened the x-ray on the computer, you clearly see the fracture on her tibia. They put a soft cast on it until we went to the orthopedist two days later. At that point they put a green cast on it (her choice!).

We were told to keep it on for four weeks and that they would take a look at it again.

She did AMAZING in those 4 weeks. She didn't complain once. She kept busy with Lego's and playing with princesses and barbies. We had a little table inside so she could sit there and prop her leg up to play and color and eat. She eventually learned to scoot on her bottom and keep her leg up. Once this was mastered - there was no holding her back! She was keeping up with Sofi and Patrick with no problem.

She did have issues going out, she didn't like it that people would look at her. It made her very shy.

We were also told to keep her leg dry and not to even chance it getting wet, because when they set the cast, they had to position it in a certain way because the spot her leg broke at could get a

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