Goodbye Cast!

So excited to be saying goodbye to the lovely pink cast. It served us well and did it's job. It made for less work and fun for Zoey and more work and less fun for Mom. The cast came off and they did one more xray and everything looks great. We thought the cast would come off and we would be good to go. They put a soft cast on though and wrapped her arm in an ace bandage. Her activity was still restricted and the soft cast was to be worn for at least 2 more weeks as a reminder that it still needed to be treated with care. So we didn't walk away done with it all like we thought, and with another appointment in 4 weeks.

 Waiting to have her final x-ray. I think this made number 5 total.

The pins sticking out of her arm. Weird!

 Dr. Valencia came in and gently pulled them out. Zoey said she hardly felt it. There was more blood than I thought there would have been though.

 This is poor Zoey looking sad because she was. She was really disappointed that she still had activity restrictions. I believe she also looked unhappy because that night or the next day she got a stomach bug.

She wore her soft cast for exactly 2 weeks and then she was done with it. She started back with normal activity and at the 4 week mark we went back for the last appointment with Dr. Valencia. He had her do a bunch of things with her arms and he said her mobility in her left arm was perfect and he didn't expect there to be any problems. Finally! We are done with it all and so happy to be cast and restriction free. No doubt Dr. Valencia is on our radar now though in case any of the kids ever deal with any bone problems. He was fantastic.