Josh definitely has two broken bones in his right foot even I could see that from his x- rays! The doc said if it would have been one millimeter off what it is he'd have had to recommend surgery!! It turns out it's his second and third metatarsals, right foot. Josh had a choice of red for Phillies or green for Eagles so since the dance group is supposed to be dancing before the Phillies game on Saturday he picked red fiberglass. I guess we'll have to get him some logos and decorate it. The only time he complained was when we were putting the cast on - I had to be the bad guy and hold his foot in a way that was uncomfortable but was the best position to cast the foot in.
So... after spending the morning at the orthopedic surgeon's office he's home and trying to nap since last night was restless for him. Each time he'd fall asleep and torque the foot he woke up. I can tell when his Advil wears off cause he starts fussing. He has another appointment to follow up with the orthopedic surgeon in three weeks, hopefully all will go well and that will be that.
We'll be borrowing some crutches from friends and I'm sure he'll be up and around on them before you know it but for now I'm still carrying him around as I did all morning at the time I was wishing I'd had a stroller. For here at home I showed him how to get up and down our steps by scooting on his butt. In the mean time thinking a stroller might be useful to get around in the neighborhood - do any of you local moms still have one that we can borrow?
I don't know what he was saying in the waiting room as I got him checked out and made his next appointment at the doctor's but as I carried him out most of the people in the waiting room were chuckling and saying good bye to him.... plus the doc gave him a Kit Kat for being good!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
broken bones???
Looks like Josh found one way to get out of going to hockey practice. He and Dima had a few minutes after school, homework and dinner before we had to leave to get him to the rink so they were playing football outside, the two of them tumbled over each other and Josh really started crying, usually he recovers pretty quickly to get back to playing so when he didn't get up and kept crying I had a feeling it wasn't good. I found out later on that he also heard a crunch sound when Dima was - accidentally - stepping on his moving foot. So after a visit to the MedCenter100 we've got a prescription to have it x-rayed tomorrow and it looks like he's going to end up in a cast - apparently his forth and fifth metatarsals on his right foot seem to be broken. So for now it's wrapped, we're carrying him around and he's taking ibuprofen and keeping it elevated while sitting around moaning once in a while. At least he's stopped the hysterics he was in when Chris and I decided he had to have it looked at. Then he was so worked up that he almost threw up. Even on the drive there he was out of breath and then I noticed he was crying more when the car accelerated... the doc said that fractures can be sensitive to movement. So tomorrow we'll get him set with his cast and crutches: hopefully he won't get too bored sitting out the physical stuff over the next few weeks.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Chris in the local paper
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2010/08/29/life/srv0000009180007.txt
Daily Local writes about men's hockey.
Daily Local writes about men's hockey.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Andie earned her driver's license!
After hours of testing her reflexes, knowledge of driving laws, safety, and then practical testing in a car today Andie proved to the examiners that she's road - worthy again! She's glad to have done it and still has to have her car inspected - it lapsed while she was... um... busy so she's soon to get a bit of her freedom back. As you can imagine having everything taken away including her place, her mobility and lots of her stuff taken away or packed up by the time she was aware of what had happened to her was a blow and this is a step to being her own person again. Congratulations Andie!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
It's the most wonderful time
I know why they invented school... especially on a rainy day the bickering - arguing and antagonizing!! ... my mom used to use that word -- Mom, and Andie I should say I'm sorry- I guess now I'm getting my payback!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcYbo7pjto
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
What I did on my summer vacation: part 2 Sister-sitting
Our parents are in Spain and Portugal and even before they booked the trip they checked to be sure that I could be around to keep an eye on Andie. With the brain injury still in the healing stages she still has some memory issues and needs some supervision since, well, anyone could forget to turn off the stove after cooking, but she's much more likely to, plus she needs someone to communicate for her in some cases so being alone long term isn't an option right now. She is doing pretty well physically, still walks slowly and tires easily ( she and Josh are keeping pretty much the same sleep schedule ) Her brain still needs time to re-wire itself around the injured areas and some of the brain cells are just gone so her range of motion with her right arm is limited and probably will continue to be.
I'm trying to motivate her to go walking when Josh and I go but she's always got an excuse to get out of it. She did go swimming with us the other day and actually got her hair wet! With as much time as it takes her to blow it out I thought whe wouldn't. She's been saying that noise is bothering her - like when someone is having a conversation outside of the speech therapy room while she's trying to think it distracts her and Josh is just a loud kid so she does need to get away from that once in a while so I make a point of getting him outside during the day sometimes she comes out too and sits out on the porch. There are times that she gets really frustrated either because of noise or just because of not finding a word because of the aphasia and then she exerts so much energy talking about being frustrated I try to tell her to use that energy to pause and think of the word or of whatever her train of thought was ... I know, easy for me to say.... But she does need to get more physical activity and I'll keep asking her to go walking in the hope that one of these times she will.
We stopped in at TGI Friday's the other day and I asked her then if the noise there bothered her and interestingly enough it didn't until she stopped to try to read the menu, I guess because she was happy to be seeing her friends there and she was used to that environment.
Andie's still keeping an eye on her blood sugar even though she's not on pills for diabetes anymore she seemed to crash a bit as we left speech therapy today but a granola bar helped and then we stopped at a buffet since she said she was too tired to cook, we had a small, early lunch - and I guess didn't want to wait for me to do it. On the way home we were all full and Josh was so stuffed he was in the backseat literally unbuttoning his pants on the way home. That kid ate crablegs(for a while he had three young waitresses watching him expertly pick the meat out) , shrimp, clams, chicken, more crab legs and multiple desserts!! Andie and I were alot more reasonable with our choices, but still full!
While we're here Josh and I will continue to take Andie to Good Shepherd for therapy. We walked around today Josh met and got permission to pet a service dog, then we and saw their huge therapy pool and found a fountain to sit by outside, it was pretty humid so after Josh goofed around there with two boys we made our way back inside and sat there a few minutes until speech therapy was done. It's just easier for her to have a ride than to rely on the bus system and it gives us another place to explore together.
I'm trying to motivate her to go walking when Josh and I go but she's always got an excuse to get out of it. She did go swimming with us the other day and actually got her hair wet! With as much time as it takes her to blow it out I thought whe wouldn't. She's been saying that noise is bothering her - like when someone is having a conversation outside of the speech therapy room while she's trying to think it distracts her and Josh is just a loud kid so she does need to get away from that once in a while so I make a point of getting him outside during the day sometimes she comes out too and sits out on the porch. There are times that she gets really frustrated either because of noise or just because of not finding a word because of the aphasia and then she exerts so much energy talking about being frustrated I try to tell her to use that energy to pause and think of the word or of whatever her train of thought was ... I know, easy for me to say.... But she does need to get more physical activity and I'll keep asking her to go walking in the hope that one of these times she will.
We stopped in at TGI Friday's the other day and I asked her then if the noise there bothered her and interestingly enough it didn't until she stopped to try to read the menu, I guess because she was happy to be seeing her friends there and she was used to that environment.
Andie's still keeping an eye on her blood sugar even though she's not on pills for diabetes anymore she seemed to crash a bit as we left speech therapy today but a granola bar helped and then we stopped at a buffet since she said she was too tired to cook, we had a small, early lunch - and I guess didn't want to wait for me to do it. On the way home we were all full and Josh was so stuffed he was in the backseat literally unbuttoning his pants on the way home. That kid ate crablegs(for a while he had three young waitresses watching him expertly pick the meat out) , shrimp, clams, chicken, more crab legs and multiple desserts!! Andie and I were alot more reasonable with our choices, but still full!
While we're here Josh and I will continue to take Andie to Good Shepherd for therapy. We walked around today Josh met and got permission to pet a service dog, then we and saw their huge therapy pool and found a fountain to sit by outside, it was pretty humid so after Josh goofed around there with two boys we made our way back inside and sat there a few minutes until speech therapy was done. It's just easier for her to have a ride than to rely on the bus system and it gives us another place to explore together.
What I did on my summer vacation: part 1 - Josh
Running across the lawns to see the best friend - watching next door to see when the playmate there is around, playing on the grass, riding bikes on the sidewalks, going to the Hokey pool - all this is stuff I did probably 40 ... yeah, I said forty!... years ago and Josh is now doing the same stuff at the same houses ( the kids aren't related to my playmates) but he's having a blast introducing himself around the neighborhood while we're here with my sister and our parents are on a tour of Spain and Portugal.
The kid next door he's known awhile and always looks forward to seeing him when we're here. The first afternoon and morning we were here he kept asking about him, until we spotted a boy down through the yards at the same house where my best friend used to live and he went down there and started playing. He's there during the days with his grandparents and little sister and he and Josh get along well. The grandparents are nice, great to talk to and I think it's a good thing for us to have something to do since Andie's hypersensitive to noises and Josh has no volume control so it gives her a break to have some quiet or to do her speech therapy homework and to not have to be surrounded by noise all day.
I keep thinking about how cool it is that when I was little I did pretty much the same stuff Josh and friends are doing now. Well, except we had alot less parental supervision, no battery powered, ride - on vehicles and simpler toys. Uh, catching lightning bugs, wiffle ball, and flashlight tag (this was pre lazer tag) were the big activities back in the day. Oh and walking around in the puddles after rain storms. Today I had a flash back while walking Josh around the block about the one girl that lived down the street who used to eat catfood and brag about liking it. Sometimes I wonder what happened to some of these people. As we walked this morning Josh saw a mom bringing her toddler daughter outside and was like "do you have any boys??"!!! I explained that he's looking for more kids to get together to play.
The kid next door he's known awhile and always looks forward to seeing him when we're here. The first afternoon and morning we were here he kept asking about him, until we spotted a boy down through the yards at the same house where my best friend used to live and he went down there and started playing. He's there during the days with his grandparents and little sister and he and Josh get along well. The grandparents are nice, great to talk to and I think it's a good thing for us to have something to do since Andie's hypersensitive to noises and Josh has no volume control so it gives her a break to have some quiet or to do her speech therapy homework and to not have to be surrounded by noise all day.
I keep thinking about how cool it is that when I was little I did pretty much the same stuff Josh and friends are doing now. Well, except we had alot less parental supervision, no battery powered, ride - on vehicles and simpler toys. Uh, catching lightning bugs, wiffle ball, and flashlight tag (this was pre lazer tag) were the big activities back in the day. Oh and walking around in the puddles after rain storms. Today I had a flash back while walking Josh around the block about the one girl that lived down the street who used to eat catfood and brag about liking it. Sometimes I wonder what happened to some of these people. As we walked this morning Josh saw a mom bringing her toddler daughter outside and was like "do you have any boys??"!!! I explained that he's looking for more kids to get together to play.
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