Spica Cast
Surprisingly, I felt somewhat relieved after we talked to the surgeon. He told us it wouldn't be 6 but 4 weeks in the cast, and also that the cast would only come to half of his left leg, it wouldn't be two full leg casts. For some reason that took a giant load off of me. Although I guess the normal thing to do is to freak out when your child is about to be put on general anesthesia, I felt so relieved. I knew he wouldn't feel any pain for at least some minutes and that the surgeon would make things better for him. Time finally sped up... soon we were back in the room watching our tiny boy sleep, still connected to way too many machines but this time not wincing in pain. He spent the rest of the day mostly sleeping, which I greatly appreciated. More sleep meant less time with him dealing with his pain. At this point Joe and I had slept maybe a combination of 4 hours in the last 30, so we were both collapsing, thank God we live close to family. My mom was of course there ...