Neon Yellow Cast

Since Tara's griping at me to update my blog...

We finally get over the pneumonia! Tuesday night Ryleigh is in the basement with Daddy. I hear her scream bloody murder and jump up. Josh is bringing her upstairs. He says "oh, she just dropped a weight plate on her foot" and goes back downstairs like it's no big deal!
There is a little cut on it, not much blood and she's screaming in pain. I give her some motrin and lay her in my bed to watch "Babbules" (Blues Clues...how she came up with that I have no ide).
The next morning she gets up and won't put any pressure on her foot. Her toe is very swollen and bruised. We were already going to the ped for a re-check on her x-rays so I call tell them what happened and the ped wants to see her.
In the meantime she finally learns that she can't play or do anything without walking on her foot so she learned the limp...walking on the side of her foot or her heal. I'm thinking it's just badly bruised.
We go to the ped and they do the x-rays. The chest looks great...the toe is broken! It's broken right where the toe and foot meet. So he refers us to a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and says they will probably put a sturdy hard boot/shoe on her.
We go to the orthopedic surgeon appt and they again confirm it's broken. They tell me we can do a the boot or a cast. I tell them that I'm out of a job and my insurance isn't the greatest. They said I should go with the cast as the insurance will pick it up and they won't the boot since it's not considered a medical necessity.
Ryleigh gets to pick out her color and she picks NEON YELLOW! Which goes with almost nothing she wears but I figure she doesn't get to decide much in life right now so no biggie. She did great getting the cast on. So they say that it will probably take her 2-3 days before she can walk well with the cast. She got right down and started walking away on it. Nothing was going to stop her.
I was worried that she wasn't going to sleep well with it on but so far she's done fine. They think she will only have to keep it on for 2 weeks since we did the cast instead of the boot. So we'll see...we go back on April 9th for it to be x-rayed again.
Stay tuned!