Charlie had his follow up visit with the Orthopedist today, and I was able to tag along with Ansley, who wasn’t sure she was going to make after having been out of commission with Strep the past few days. No worries there, though, she’s been feeling much better this afternoon! They took his cast off so they could get more x-rays, and I was able to see the ulcer on his heel for the first time. Man – it looks quite painful. It had burst sometime in the past 2 weeks, and looks to be well on the way to healing, but it still needs to be monitored.

Charlie’s fractures seem to be mending quite well, although they still caused him a bit of pain when the doctor was examining him. He was able to walk on it with minimal discomfort, and the doctor (Mr. Wilson as he calls himself!) seemed to be more concerned with the ulcer than the fractures at this point. He chose to leave the cast off so we could begin to get the ulcer treated. He got a special shoe to wear on the foot (I think they called it a post-op shoe) and we do need to be careful to keep Charlie from putting too much pressure on the foot for a couple of weeks longer (like jumping up and down – that will be challenging!). It took a few minutes once we got home for Charlie to get comfortable walking around again, but he was motoring around the house in no time.

The coolest part of the night was getting to give Charlie his first REAL bath in over 2 weeks! While he had his cast, Ansley and I would lay him in the tub, and I’d hold his cast up in the air while Ansley bathed him, to keep the cast from getting wet. He’d gotten to dislike that process quite a bit! So, tonight when we told him it was time to take a bath, he started off going “No Bath!” like he had been doing recently, and was a little fussy as we carried him upstairs. Once we had the bath ready, and put him in it, his face INSTANTLY lit up and you could tell he was thinking something like “Wait – I get to play in here by myself again? Awesome!” He loved every minute of it and was splashing around and playing in the tub like always.

In the end, although the past two weeks were more challenging than normal around the Cox household, I’m pretty amazed at how quickly Charlie adapted to life with a cast. He never complained about it once, and generally took everything new that came his way in stride.

The Episode of the Broken Foot is (hopefully) on its way to being history.

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