As everyone has probably already heard, Riley broke two bones in his left leg on Father's Day- of all days. Riley asked to go to the park and Dave and I thought it would be fun. We went to a new park that we hadn't been to yet and it was great. Riley and I decided to climb up the ladders to the very top so he could climb through some tunnels up there. In order to get down, we could maneuver back down the ladder or go down the slide. Of course, we went down the slide. What kind of trouble could a 7 month pregnant woman with her son on her lap get into on a slide? So down we went, with Dave meeting us at the bottom. When we got to the bottom of the slide, Riley starting crying hysterically. We assumed it had scared him a bit, but when the crying continued for over an hour, we began to worry. Riley has always been really good at telling us when he is hurt and where he hurts so we asked him if he was hurt and he said no. He settled down, but after another hour was still not himself. That's when we noticed his ankle. We had taken his shoes off to help cool him down from being so worked up and noticed that his ankle was twice it's size and turning blue. We packed him up and went to the emergency room. X-rays showed his main support bone in his leg with a small break and the small bone next to it almost completely broken and hanging on by a thin piece. They gave him morphine for the pain and stuck him with an IV until the Ortho could get there. The Ortho put him out completely, adjusted the bone and fitted Riley with a black cast going from foot to upper thigh. We got home from the hospital at 2 AM.
The first day home was a nightmare. Riley was so sleep deprived that 5 minutes after he would fall asleep, his body would give a huge jerk which would wake him up and make him scream and cry as the jerk would cause him major pain in his leg. We had him sleeping in our bed because we had to monitor his swelling all night and so no-one got any sleep. The next day, after a call to Riley's incredible RN, we switched him to serious amounts of Motrin which made the pain go away, which made the jerking not hurt him, which meant he could finally get some sleep, which stopped the jerking. It was still about another 3 days before he was semi normal.
Riley has had two x-rays since, and his leg is doing well. He has an appointment three weeks from Monday to have his cast removed which is not too bad. We can't go swimming or play in the water AT ALL and his start of Gymboree has been canceled, but we're finding things to do. The cast has added a good ten pounds to Riley and I can't carry him more than a few steps, but we have found very creative ways to make it work! He is now crawling all over the house with his cast and can walk on it if he's holding onto something while he moves. The best thing though, is that our bright-eyed son is back, and for that we can't be more thankful.
In other Riley news, he has officially moved into his 'big boy' bed and is doing VERY well in it...now. Since this blog is already too long, I wont tell you the stories about it but after implementing a 'time to get up' signal for him, he has no problem staying in bed and LOVES his big boy bed. Here is a picture of him with his cast and also in his bed. I'll try to get a video of him crawling with his cast and post it too as it's really quite funny to watch. :)
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