Ouch!

Every year I pretend I home school my children for one day a week in January so I can take them snowboarding.  So far that is how Cade, Ashley, and Mikayla have learned.  It is for a great deal and it includes a lesson.  This year only Mikayla and myself were going to be able to go.  We headed up on our first day on January 8th 2013.  We had had a great day despite the icy snow that kept sticking to our goggles.  We were on our last afternoon run when the tears started.  I was behind Mikayla so I didn't see her wreck but I sure heard the aftermath!  

She must have looked back to find me and hit a divit in the snow (it was an icy blizzard outside).  Her friend Kierra was the first one there and said she did a flip.  The way she was crying we knew there was something wrong.  We waited on the mountain forever for ski patrol to pull her down.  I held her leg and tried to distract her for nearly 45 minutes.  I even tried asking her about her favorite candy but nothing was working. She was in terrible pain.  (On the way up on the lift before the crash, Kayla was telling me that the last time she was up snowboarding with her friend someone had to be tobaggoned down and they covered their head so they didn't know if they were alive or not.  Well, little did we know she would be minutes away from a ride like that but she was very much ALIVE!)

The ski patrol guys splinted it in carpet padding and cardboard until we got to the hospital.  Sure enough, she had a buckle fracture of her left tibia.  The Dr. splinted it and sent us home for the night until the next day when we could have the orthopedic surgeon cast it.  We were orginally told she would have a full leg cast so we were both excited when it was below the knee.  The first few days were rough, no sleep, bad dreams, and a lot of pain. I think a lot was realizing how much she was going to miss out on.  

 She missed a few days of school and then went back on crutches.  I have taken her to school and picked her up everyday.  Her friend Maddie has been great to help her carry her backpack on open doors.  It has been so icy and cold that I have been worried she would slip or get bumped into and hurt something else.  So far so good.  I only go one call and that was because the wind not her over into a puddle.

Violin practicing was a little bit challenging.  Luckily, she got on her boot right before festival so she could stand and play and she did SUPER!  I was more nervous for her than she was before festival!

After 3 1/2 weeks it was time for a new cast.  We were again surprised and got a walking boot instead of a cast.  Yes she could shower!

 Left leg a little skinnier but already sticks to start with!

The Boot!