He's Mobile

A week and a half ago we took Cason to find out about getting his cast off.  The girls were big fans of the skeleton-painted bison out in front of the office.

The office in Kingman apparently forgot to send his x-rays, so we waited...

...got him in a pair of blue paper shorts and got new x-rays....

 

...waited a little more...

 ...and finally got to meet a very nice doctor, who told us his leg was healing perfectly, but needed about 3 more weeks.  He DID say though, that it was ready for a smaller cast, that stopped below the knee.  So not only did Cason get to get a new smaller cast AND get to pick the color this time, but he could also have a walking boot and start trying to walk again.  He was so good and brave when they cut the cast off.  I was ITCHING to clean his leg really good before putting the second cast on, but nope, they just popped him into it.  :)

 The girls were excited to see it.  Neely asked again, like she does a few times a day, every day, in her sad voice, "What happened Cason's leeeeg?"  like she doesn't already know. 

He was REALLY nervous to put weight on it, (I would be too), and after a couple days would sort of stand on it, but didn't really walk for several days.  Even then he wouldn't for more than a few steps a day.  

Then he would try walking on the carpet, but he didn't want to try the boot on hard ground at first, so he'd scoot around on his bottom whenever he was on the tile.  I bet his upper body has gotten strong.  He was lifting and propelling himself on his arms all fast, and reminded me of a chimp.  Ha.

Suddenly this weekend, a week later, he was all over the place.  I noticed today he was walking totally normally for the first time, not even a limp.

11 more days and he should be free!