She has been telling me for...a long time...months...that her heels hurt really bad. She would run and play and do everything that everyone else was doing, and more, and then say they hurt, start limping or walking on her toes. I thought they might be bruised or that tendon thing you get in your foot. Avary is not one to complain about pain, she wants to be tough so the boys will let her play and in my opinion she is tougher than the boys I know. She didn't cry both times she had stitches or when she had her forehead swell off her face from hitting her head. Yesterday she was cringing with every step so I knew it had to hurt pretty bad and it has been so long I decided it wasn't going to go away so I took her to a foot specialist.
Well, after some x rays I was shown that she has had TWO broken heels right on the growth plate. Because of where it is, it has not been able to heal with her activity level and well because she is walking on them.
I sat there looking at the obvious break in both heels and I just wanted to cry. I looked at the Dr. and said "WHY did I wait so long to bring her in? I feel so horrible". He just said "now now don't do that, these things happen and this is one tough girl" He is the nicest man. He asked Avary if the boys had been chasing her on the playground, she said yes, but she is faster than them.
He was explaining to her that she may not take off the walking casts for six weeks and she has to wear them 24 hours a day unless I am giving her a bath. She can't run or jump or walk fast, no playing at recess, she has to sit and rest them or he will have to put a different cast on them and she won't be able to walk. She got the saddest face ever and said "I can't play at recess"? For the rest of the school year. And she will miss her dance recital. And it is already really hot = no swimming.
The first thing she did was stand up and stamp her feet to see if it hurt. Ha. The Dr. said "No No you can't do that. One of the prophets said to lengthen your stride, I want you to shorten your shuffle"!
It's only the first day and she is so miserable, she fell down once already and said she is feeling shy to go to school. She wants them OFF! The hardest part is going to be trying to keep her from running around. I will never even know what she did to break them, she is always jumping off of things and so active and it was so long ago when it first happened. This is going to be a long month. The other kids were wishing they had broken something too because I bought Avary an ice cream, I would say they were even jealous.
I just want to add that all of the awards that Avary won, the races and 1st place in her field day were all won with two broken heels. She is so much tougher than me. I want to cuss when I step on a lego.
Oh, and also I think this means Mother of the year is in the bag. I think crying is in order!
