Saturday morning, my wife fell down on the stairs while carrying Kara down after a nap. Leah is fine, but while she was able to mostly cushion Kara, the wierd angle everyone toppled at caused kara to bang her knee on the stairs.
After some initial crying, we thought everything was ok, and peds visits both sat and sunday gave us doctors opinions of “probably everything is ok, but let’s be careful and take an xray”. Kara was a little sensitive if we bent the leg, and she was definitely not taking weight on it, and she was kinda crawling without using that leg, but the toes and feet were moving and stuff and so everyone involved including doctors said it was probably just a painful bruise of some kind.,
Unfortunately, the xray monday showed that her femur is broken. It’s a very “small” break, close to hairline, but femur breaks are bad.
Kara is now in a half body cast, starting at above her waist and covering both her legs, the ok one halfway and the not ok one down and covering everything but her toes. We haven’t even figured out how to prop her upright, and that’ll be fun.
The “good” news is that at Kara’s age, it usually only takes about 30 days for this type of fracture to heal. The bad news is that, really, this is going to be an unpleasant month for Kara and thus for us. She’s effectively as helpless as a newborn, except she’s as advanced as a 8mo old, just started crawling last weekend (!) and needs to be kept involved, active, and happy.
So 30 days started monday, aug 7. If we’re lucky, our anniversary present this year will be a daughter who can sit in a chair again.