Addy's Cast and Torture Session

Addy was extremely excited to go to her casting appointment today.  She's been thinking all weekend about what color she wants to get.  We get there, and they took a few x-rays.  The doctor came in to view the pictures of her arm and found that the bones had shifted and needed to be re-set.  My stomach at this point just started freaking out. Meanwhile Hailey and Addy are laughing at eachother in the background and i'm thinking to myself, "Addy has no idea what's about to happen to her."

So, the caster/person comes in to the room and begins the process of putting the hard cast on her arm. It's wet and she runs out yelling for the doctor because nobody knows where the doctor went and she needs her NOW.  The doctor comes running in (apparently, they have to set the bones while the cast is on so that the cast can mold the arm into position and they have to do it before it dries) and begins gripping Addy's arm. She still has no idea what's about to happen. Apparently, neither did I because at the hospital, it was a very quick set of the bones.  This time, she had to slowly form and mold her arm and cast at the same time. The process took about a minute and a half of them squeezing her arm and moving the bones back into place.  Poor Addy was SCREAMING her little head off. The crazy thing.. she didn't move an inch. She just sat there while they tortured her. I couldn't hold back the tears on this one. I had watched her be in so much pain the last week and then this???  This was definitely hell on earth for a mother.  

waiting on the doctor...

with no clue about what's next.

This is just before the doctor starts squeezing and shifting her little bones.

This picture makes me cry.  This is Post-Torture.

Addy was quick to pick out the COLORFUL cast and was pretty excited about it.  The doctor informed me she would need pain medication as soon as we got home.. and that's just what we did.  Now, the verdict is that she has to come back in two weeks where they will take more x-rays to make sure the bones didn't move again.  They will re-cast her and then it will be another 4-6 weeks after that of wearing a cast.  They had to give her a full arm cast because of the fact that her bones moved so much. They don't want that happening again.. obviously.

 ALL DONE!!!

After the pain meds set in...

Poor girl. Such a nightmare.