First ER Visit

I've been really behind on blogging and this is why...A month ago, on April 15th, MacKenzie broke her leg.  I was fixing her bath and she was playing with MiMi and Grumps.  She climbed into her little recliner and as she was getting out, her foot got stuck between the chair and the foot rest.  Here is an old picture of her in the recliner...

She cried and wouldn't put any weight on her left leg.  Our next door neighbor is an RN, so she came over and looked at it and suggested we take MacKenzie to the ER.  Once at the ER, they got us checked in and then we went for X-Rays before going to a "room".  Finally a doctor came to see her and confirmed that her tibia was broken. 

Next they came and finally gave her some pain medicine.  After that kicked in, a splint was put on her leg. 

We finally got to go home around midnight.  Then, I went back out to the only 24 hour pharmacy in town to get her pain medicine prescriptions filled.  MiMi and I took turns sleeping on the floor with her the rest of the night.  Then we thought to get out her toddler blow-up bed for the next few days/nights.

On Thursday, we went to see the orthopedic doctor who put her in a long cast (pink, of course) and gave us instructions to come back in two weeks. 

MacKenzie did great adjusting to having the cast on.  She figured out how to "scoot" around so that she could still be mobile.  I think it was harder on us to adjust to carrying her / taking care of her than it was for her to adjust to having the cast.

Two weeks later, we went back to the orthopedic doctor and the break in her leg had healed, so they took her cast off.  It took her about a week before she really started walking / putting a lot of weight on her left leg again.  She is pretty much back to normal, except that sometimes she limps a little and it seems like if she walks too much, the limp is more noticeable. 

Hopefully, we don't have any return trips to the ER anytime soon!