Monday, October 27, 2008

He's up, up, up- and now he's down.

GJ has taken his time, but this weekend he took a couple steps and then Sunday, motivated by Dez (or jealous) he took several steps outside at chruch and then more inside and later at home he took over 10 by himself. Hooray, we have a walker!
But then later that afternoon we went to the park and he kind of jammed his foot going down the slide with SM. I didn't think much of, but he continued to cry for the next 20 minutes and then any time he moved it at all (and he is not a big crier, especially when I am holding him). He slept okay, but was still not putting weight on it this morning, so we went to the doctor, who thought it might be broken so he sent us to the hospital to get some X-rays. Luckily they came out negative, so now if he is not walking again by Wednesday we are going back, but I am not sure what they can do at this point, but I really doubt its going to get better that fast. Poor kid, he was so close, and now he won't be walking for a while!
So I am stuck at the hospital for like 3 hours while we are doing all this so I call Tad and ask him to pick up SM from preschool, and he finally makes time and then gets to his car and realizes no car seat. Luckily Matt was able to go get him. And the day is half over, what else could happen? SM did take a miracle 3 hour nap.

5 comments:

Tara and Orlando said...

Ohhhh, so sad. I'm sorry all that happened. All that frustrating stuff packed into one day. Momma said there'd be days like, there'd be days like this my momma said. It will get better! :)

brenna said...

So close! I'm sad I missed seeing some of those steps. I hope he's back up soon.

jenny said...

crappy! poor kid. poor mom. that is a long, hard day for everyone. he will be walking again before you know it-i'm glad i was a witness to it on sunday! get better soon GJ!

Annie Gedge said...

That sort of happened to my niece. She twisted going down the slide and then was acting really weird like GJ was, and her xrays were neg. too, but she refuse to put weight on it, so they gave her a cast. Well all thought it was cool and signed it. They took it off like a week later. It was no big deal except all that medical mess!

Laura said...

Oh, sad day. I've heard of kids breaking legs on slides because their foot gets stuck on the side while the rest of their body keeps going down...scary! I'm glad it wasn't too serious. He'll be up again in no time.