Today was the day we had been waiting 5 weeks for.  Unfortunately we didn’t get quite the news we were expecting.  

 

The not so humorous nurse cut off Damion’s cast revealing little specks on Damion’s foot/lower leg and some really dirty toes (man can not apparently clean toes on diaper wipes alone).  Off he went to x-ray and returned requesting wet paper towels to clean his foot. 

Junior doctor (aka Jeff) felt Damion’s foot and spoke with us a bit and said that the foot was still broken.  He left and we waited for the ortho doctor.  He showed us the x-rays taken today and honestly it didn’t look any different than the ER x-rays but he said it was starting to heal.  All we saw was a small grayish area but it wasn’t white like a full bone is.  After some discussion Damion was given a walking boot (or as Stacey the fun nurse called it, “a moon boot”) and told to wean off the crutches over the next week.  (I guess nobody would be to surprised to learn he used them walking out of the doctors office and hasn’t used them yet, right?!?!).  Next visit would be in 5 weeks with x-rays again.  After some looking back on the conversation the doctor didn’t really seem to have a plan about what would happen then if there was no improvement and seemed a bit caught off guard when Damion asked if pins would be needed.

Since this visit didn’t go quite as planned we went to Starbucks even though Nana requested earlier in the day we come straight home from the visit.  See we knew that she likely wouldn’t mind too much since we brought her a drink too.  While talking with her we started to toss around the idea of a second opinion from the doctor we originally wanted to see but couldn’t because he was on vacation.  We’ll see what this weekend brings with it before making that final decision, but don’t worry; we’ll try to keep you all in the look.

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