Close call

Well what a weekend. 1st of all let me start off by saying Happy Late Fathers Day! I hope everyone had a great day! Web and I counted are blessings. We were so happy to have Sweet Caroline to celebrate and having my dad ALIVE was icing on the cake. My dad even came to OKC to celebrate with us. We were supposed to meet him in Tulsa, but plans changed for us. Just when you think life is slowly moving back to normal, a collision of sorts happens.
We started Fathers Day weekend early at the lake. Web loves the lake. If it were possible, some way some how, he would find a way for us to live there full time. I love the lake as well, but not nearly as much! Especially with a 7 month old! Days of laying out on the boat, drinking an adult beverage, listening to music is a thing of the past. We were all at the lake by Thursday evening, had some dinner, and called it an early night. Our plan was to take C out on the boat in the morning and see how she did on it. We wanted to do it before the weekend rough waters started. Of course, nothing goes as planned and by the time we got around Friday it was noon and already 93 degrees out. Not going to take her out. So we decided we would take her out that evening. Once the sun was going down and the random boaters out on a Friday were home. C showed us that once again, her parents are nervous wrecks all the time. Well, Web more than me. Yes, I am a nervous wreck, but for some reason on this boat ride I wasn't scared. Sweet girl had so many pictures taken of herself, that she now knows to smile on cue for the camera! Well I think so. Others might disagree, but she seems to smile for my camera! We all had a great time on the boat. Me, Web, Caroline, Nana and Pop. Everyone was happy to see that C was having a good time. Of course, we didn't want to "rock the boat" (horrible pun I know) and cut the boat ride short. C had on layers of sun screen, and had to have a bath. Unfortunately, C doesn't have her bath tub at the lake. And she still isn't sitting up on her own. So, Web kept his bathing suit on, and got in the bathtub with her.
Everything was fine. C was laughing, kicking, splashing having a good time. Web was keeping her upright. All was ok. She was smiling. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, we hear the loudest, piercing scream. It was so loud. I immediately grabbed her out of the tub. She is still screaming. I asked Web if he noticed anything while they were in the tub together and he felt nothing. So what could be wrong? Once she did calm down, Web tried to get her to sleep, but she wouldn't co-operate. She stayed up until 10 PM that night. Never has she stayed up that late. Web noticed that she was not using her left leg. It was immobile. She had it tucked in and wasn't going to let us touch it. GREAT. Here we are in Cherokee County and our daughter isn't moving her leg. We decided to let her sleep, and reassess in the morning. 6 AM C is crying. She is miserable, we are miserable. Poor Kelsey was miserable! After much discussion, we decided to pack up and go back home. C needed an x-ray. It's funny, we both knew that was the answer. But it took us 2 hours to leave. We didn't want OI to win. Mother's Day weekend and our 1st anniversary were ruined by a broken femur, why in the world did Father's Day have to be ruined as well? It wasn't fair and we were not happy. Once again I found myself cussing out OI.
By 8AM we were on our way back home to OKC and the Children's Hospital. I gotta say that place is pretty efficient. I was still at the front window finishing paper work and they called C's name to go back to an exam room. Of course, you have to deal with the tech and tell them C's story. Then a resident comes in and she thinks we need to x-ray her whole body. No, we don't. We know our daughter. Her arms and right femur are ok. It's her left leg. But she is a resident and I am sure bored, since we were 1 of 3 exam rooms full. Why would we want to expose C to more radiation than what is necessary? So she was going to "discuss" it with the attending on duty. You do that Dr. Resident, because no matter what anyone says, we were not going to let them do a full body x-ray. The attending dr. came back, understood that we knew what we were talking about and ordered left femur only. DUH. We finally get to x-ray and sadly we knew exactly what to do. 2 x-rays done and we were back to our room waiting.
Well get this, the attending dr. couldn't see a fracture. She did however mention more than once, that C's x-rays are pretty hard to read. Well no shit sherlock, she has OI. Her femurs are bowed. She has had more than 15 fractures in her short life. I swear if I ever have to work, I am going back to radiology school. I think I can read her x-rays better than doctors! The attending decided that she needed the on-call orthopedic dr. to look at her x-ray. He was not a pediatric ortho, but still he looked at her x-ray and didn't see a fracture either. So yeah! And I should point out, that C was moving her left leg a little more, but definitely still hesitant. Also, fractures can take up to 5-7 days to show up on x-ray. The dr. told us to contact Dr. Herndon (C's ortho) Monday morning and we were on our way home. Yeah! And we were only at the hospital 2 hours! We were so elated that she didn't leave in a full body cast. All I kept thinking about in the hospital is how unfair this was to us. Web wanted to spend his 1st father's day at the lake. I have a girls weekend at the lake planned for the following weekend. We have been planning it for 4 months! Plus, we are leaving for Mobile, July 1st. How was I going to do any of it, with C in a body cast? I know my friends would have understood if the girls weekend was canceled. But how unfair to me! I want this weekend. I need this weekend. And my grandma's 90th birthday is July 3rd. She has yet to meet her only great grand child. How was I going to explain not going??!?! Yes, she knows she has OI, but still she wants to meet her. And I want see her too! It just wasn't fair!
So we dodged a bullet. Well at least so far. I am pending a call back from our dr. once he looks at her x-ray. C is slowly moving her left leg. Not much, but more than yesterday. Web and I are extremely grateful that she is not in another full body cast. The thought of her taking more steps backwards in her development makes me ill. She is slowly sitting on her own, but definitely needs more daily practice.
All in all, Web had the best father's day! His daughter was healthy and no matter where we are, as long as we are together as a family, it's a good day. No, we weren't at the lake, and yes it was super hot and water would have been nice, but we are still pretty lucky parents! Love to all!