Wednesday, August 20, 2008

poor lex

Today was a long day (to say the least)! Early this morning, Lex was strolling around in his walker (following Leah around) and he stuck his hand in the henge end of Leah's bedroom door. Having no idea he was there, Leah tried to shut the door....with his hand inside! She slammed it so hard, she made an indention on his poor little left hand and once Doug finally got them both calmed down it was swollen bad enough that he decided to take him to have it x-rayed.

After two hours at the doctor's office and much examination of the one x-ray that Lex let them take, the doctor decided that he had a stress fracture over four of his metatarsals. But she decided that since he was still using his hand she wasn't going to put a cast on him (yet). You can still see the red indention and the swelling, but it's not as bruised as I had imagined it would be as Doug described it on the phone to me.

We are so thankful that it wasn't worse. I'm just glad that his entire hand was in the door and not just a finger or two. It brings back memories of the time I slammed Kristin's pinkie finger in the door when we were little. She lost about 5mm of pinkie from that incident (sorry Kris). But she still has a beautiful hand =)

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