The Pink Cast

It's less than three weeks until the cast comes off!  Wait a minute, she has to wear it for another two weeks and five days?  Ugh.  Poor girl.  Last week we traveled to Devils Lake to see Dr. Haasbeek at his satellite clinic.  There's good news and bad news.

 

First, let's start with the really good news...Natalie's bones are healing really well and everything looks perfect on the x-ray.  Her cast is also in good shape, so that was encouraging. 

You can see it now has some beautiful autographs adorning it these days.

 Cousin Rhett did a great job of writing his name on Nat's cast!

 Okay, okay...Cal didn't write his own name...but he DID do the beautiful scribble marks below it!

 Much more smiling these days!

Okay, now for the bad news...which you already know.  In total, Natalie will have her cast on for just a day under six weeks.  I was really hopeful that it would be something more along the lines of five weeks, but I'm not the doctor.  Nat's doing much better sleeping these days and she's happier during the day, too.  She has her moments, especially late in the day, where she gets frustrated, and I have to admit that I do as well.  Needless to say, we'll all be happy when it comes off!

So, as many of you know, we've been living in Sherwood while Perry rebuilds the house.  As of tomorrow, we'll be Minot residents again!  Some very gracious family members have offered their home to us until we can get back in OUR home.  It will be so nice to be reunited with Daddy---who misses his kids very much.  this also means Natalie will be returning to school!  I'm not sure of the details yet, since Natalie is still in a cast, but we'll know soon.  I'm just glad we're on the road home now.  We'll get there soon.