It has now been two full weeks since Mom received her first blue cast. Since we started this blog a little late we don't have many pictures of the original illustrations, but I did snap one on the way into the doctor's office today.
(Thanks to Alex, Dad, Terri, Jeff, Kathy, and Cary for their beautiful decorations.)
Now, on to the doctor's visit. Despite Mom's hopes, she is not completely healed after only two weeks of being in the cast. They did however remove the old cast (revealing her gross hairy leg, ew) and take some x-rays before applying the new cast.
First, let's start with the removal of the old cast. I made the mistake of informing Mom that Grace had been cut when her cast was taken off of her wrist years ago and that may have freaked Mom out just a wee bit. She was also incredibly concerned about the HUGE saw that they would be using to cut the cast off.
Here is a shot of the blade...
And here, is a shot of the actual contraption.
The blade is actually like two inches wide and at the very tippy top of the vacuum looking thing. I must say that it was not as vicious as I had expected. When they were actually sawing the whole thing off, Mom said she was in a flop sweat and I was concerned that she was going to break into an ugly cry. But alas, she survived. Here is the nurse lady cutting off the weird sock/gauze things.
(Thanks to me for the stealth photography!)
Then, after some poking and prodding, they started putting on the new cast! Here it is documented through my iPhone!
The sock.
The gauze.
The wrapping.
The..pat down?
The finished product! Ready to be decorated by one and all.
Starting tomorrow, Life Lessons from the Ankle-ly Challenged!
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