When Little Man had his cast taken off a few days after Christmas, Husband and I were eager to see him walking and running around the house. We were slightly dismayed when he continued to hold his foot as though the cast was on, and then drag his leg when he finally started to walk again with two flat feet.
When, after a few days of dragging the boo-boo foot around, he stopped walking on two flat feet altogether, we became very dismayed. Back to the doctor we went, where his x-rays showed something a little odd--the bones in his ankle were healing.
So it turns out it wasn't his leg that was broken, it was his ankle. The doctor told us because baby xrays are so hard to read, they couldn't locate the break until they saw bone growth. This was, as you can imagine, slightly stressful to hear. We had been encouraging Little Man to walk on an ankle that wasn't healed for nearly a month.
Instead of a cast, they fitted a miniature walking boot on Little Man's leg (officially called a "wee walker") and told us to come back in two weeks. I've been very anxiously watching our boy for a few days, worrying over whether I should get a second opinion. But Little Man doesn't seem to have any pain at all--in fact, he's zooming around the house at full tilt for the first time since early December. It seems as though the boot is (no pun intended) just what the doctor ordered.
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