Broken Foot

January started out with a BANG...literally. On the 6th Ethan and Audrey were playing on their toy box as the normally do, from a sitting position and sliding down. As I walked into the room I see Ethan flying through the air at a height that could only be achieved from standing on the toy box and jumping off. He landed and immediately started crying. His was grabbing his left foot/ankle area. We iced it and kissed it and he calmed down. When Ryan came downstairs and asked what happened, Ethan went right over to the toy box to climb up and show him how he did it.



Ethan limped on the foot the whole day. That night we checked it out and there was no swelling or bruising and he never could point out right where it hurt. He just wouldn't walk on it. Monday at school I warned them and they said they would watch him. The end of the day we got a report that he seemed ok on it. I thought nothing of it again. The following Saturday he was barefoot and I noticed the limping was really bad, that he still was not putting any pressure on it. It really concerned me- so Monday I took him to the doctor and he was sent for x-rays and to a pediatric ortho. Wednesday we went to the ortho and even though the xray showed no fracture since he would not walk on it that he most likely had some sort of fracture that the xray didn't show.


So for the last 3 weeks he has been in a cast. I hoped it might slow him down, but it hasnt't. Not one bit. Wednesday he gets it off- yay!!