Gage and His Broken Leg

Just to start our March off to a wonderful start, Gage broke his leg. It was on a Wednesday night. Lindsey wanted to carry Gage around. I was getting dinner on the table and getting ready to leave for work. Jason, still in tax season was at the office. I was also packing Sierra and I to leave for California the next morning for a biopsy. We were having to drive, because our Angel Flight did not get picked up by any pilots.

I heard a thud and then a scream. Not just an "I am hurt scream", but "I am seriously hurt" scream. He wouldn't stand on his right leg and would not stop crying. Of course this all happened 5-10 minutes before I had to leave for work. I grabbed him and took him with me to work, knowing that his leg was probably broken. Jason met me there and decided to wait and see if he still wouldn't stand on it in the morning.

I left for California at 7 am with Sierra and Leslie. Jason called me about 2-3 hours into the trip and explained to me that Gage's leg was broken and they were casting it now. He had a spiral fracture of the tibia. Who would have thought that being dropped by little Lindsey could have done that? He hit it just right! I felt horrible that I was leaving for 2-3 days and wouldn't be there to help him through the worst part of it. He did great and learned how to get around pretty quickly on that cast. Sierra got a 0 on her biopsy and we were all happy about that!!

He fell asleep while waiting in the ER. They casted his whole leg while he was sleeping. He unfortunately woke up unable to move his leg and was pretty upset about that.

This cast did put a little dilemma on the whole potty training thing.

Here he is non-weight bearing. Ha Ha Ha!

I had to keep reminding him to crawl. He would crawl when I was looking, but if I wasn't looking, he would hobble really fast before I looked or saw him.