Minor Fracture of the Lower Left Fibula, or The Tale of the Little Purple Cast

In some ways, I'm surprised it took this long for Sophie to break a bone....but still I was SHOCKED when it actually happened!!!

Friday afternoon, Sophie takes a flying leap off of the couch while playing "don't fall in the hot lava", with the carpet being lava and the rug being "safe". She cries a little and rubs her foot. But then she won't walk. She's crawling everywhere or just laying down. Danny and I drop her off at Jamie's while we (and Jonas, of course) go on a date. Jamie says Sophie is still limping and won't put weight on her left foot, although they did bounce on Jamie's bed for a while! We figure Sophie is just playing it up for some attention, and take her home and put her to bed. In the morning, she still won't put weight on it, and it's making a clicking/joint-popping sound when she walks so Danny takes her to the walk-in clinic. We figure maybe it's sprained. Two hours later, Danny calls to tell me Sophie broke her little Fibula!


Here it is in black and white. The Fibula is the smaller bone on the right-hand side of the picture. The fracture is at the very bottom, on the left side where it ever so slightly flares out. Apparently it shouldn't flare out like that. I can't make much sense of it, but it's cool to see Sophie's little bones in an X-ray.


At the clinic they made her this little temporary splint and told us to keep her off of it until we get into the Orthopaedic on Tuesday. I think when they tell you to keep a 3 year old off their feet for 3 days, they should also give you a prescription for tranquilizers of some sort! It was a LONG, PAINFUL 3 days. Finally on Tuesday we got into the Orthopaedic Doctor and got...


The cute little purple cast! And she can walk on it! So much better. She can do pretty much all of her normal activities, although she can't wear her skinny jeans. The cast has also been good for cutting down on tantrums, since she kicked her own foot with the cast while throwing one.


Little purple cast! She picked the color herself. I'm really glad she didn't pick anything flourescent.


And here's a totally unrelated, totally adorable picture of Jonas and Chuck. They both got stickered by Sophie. She stickers because she loves!

AAAAHHHHH, long story short -- Cast for 2 weeks, go back to Ortho for follow-up, hopefully get a boot, go back again, and hopefully be done. No more gymnastics class!