Ok, i’ve been bad, and haven’t updated.
Short version is: Cast is off. Kara is ultra happy, crawling and sitting and playing. Parents are still playing catchup on sleep and work.
Everyone, though, is much happier. Thanks to everyone who supported us last for the last month!
In addition to the whole cast thing, kara has a cold. I’m sure she got it either at her naming party or at my cousin’s daughter’s birthday party, but in any case, sniffles and caughing up phlegm.
On the good side, today was the first day of full time help. Shanyee is the sister of a friend of Leah’s, and a friend in her own right. Between Shanyee’s help, and her daughter’s (kara LOVES kids, and was just enthralled) today wasn’t so bad.
Until bedtime. We started the bedtime ritual a little early, because she was much more tired than usual, with the short naps due to the cold. This went well until she suddenly started inconsolably. And I mean inconsolably. For almost 40 minutes, she was screaming and screaming and crying, and we’d try something, and she’d suck her fingers for a moment and then return to crying.
We even called the peds right before they called and all they could suggest is sending us an ambulance to ride to the hospital. We decided to wait a half hour and if she hadn’t settled down by the time the tylenol had kicked in, we’d call back and do it.
Fortunately, we had left the bedroom by this time, and leah was outside bouncing kara arround and singing, and she finally after 15 minutes let out a string of burps. Gas. We were afraid we’d have go to the hospital to crack the cast off because we thought she was in pain from pinching or something and it was “just” gas.
As always, Leah’s the hero.
No matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to remember that because she can’t MOVE none of her body processes are working again. It’s like having a newborn again except you can’t put her on her back.
sigh.
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.
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