I’m ever so behind in writing a post on
Kayliana’s latest adventure: her first Xrays!
On Sunday morning, Kayli was running the loop (you know the
kitchen-dining room-living room loop that is apparently designed for indoor
track drills). We were in the kitchen when a sudden loud cry came from the
living room. Obviously, we weren’t there
to witness what happened. I don’t know
if she tripped and fell, if she bonked into the coffee table, if she suddenly
just crumpled to the floor – dunno; she was just hurt. I picked her up, soothed her, she had a
decent cry but not insanely long or anything, and then when I went to put her
back down on the floor, she gave a shriek and started crying again. At that point I noticed she wouldn’t put any
weight down on her left leg. We did the
whole checking for swelling, bruises, toes wiggled fine thing, but she
definitely couldn’t/wouldn’t walk on it.
After a bit, we decided to call the nurse line since this seemed like a
problem that wasn’t going to go away.
Sure, enough, she recommended we come in to see the doctor. Thankfully, there’s one office open on
Sundays, so we won’t have quite the same hefty bill that the ER kindly sent us
for her last ‘adventure.’
The doctor – an attractive woman with the
nicest, smiliest eyes I’ve ever seen – seriously, she LOOKED like a
Pediatrician – squeezed up Kayli’s left leg and, apparently, noticed a ‘hardness’
near the femur. Ruh-roh. That’s definitely the worst bone-leg
situation to have as it means full on mega-cast if a cast is indeed
needed. I brought Kayli back to the Xray
room. We sat in the tiny waiting area
across from a 9ish year-old boy and his dad.
I gave them a nod and asked, “What are you in for?” (I’d like to think that I asked this in a
gruff, The Godfather kinda-way but I probably was just boring and normal). Turns out he’d fallen of a bar that he was
swinging on and landed on his right wrist, but, as I found out with them, it
wasn’t broken so he was sent home castless.
Kayli did great for her Xrays. I thought for sure I’d have to hold her down
(especially since she still won’t go on the examination bed thingy without
having a total fit), but she did totally fine.
She layed there with her blankie, sucky her fingers, looking at (and
talking about) the big Elmo poster on the wall.
Once the doctor got the Xrays, she did that
sound that I just LOVE to hear from medical professionals, “Hmmm….hmpfh. Weird….huh.”
All reassuring noises. Not.
She brought me over and showed me the film
where on one you could clearly see a large knob/bump sticking out of one of the
bones.
“I don’t love the look of that,” she said. Yeah, me neither, I thought. “It looks like maybe a cyst on the bone that’s
possibly nothing – could’ve been there since she was born and we’d never know
if we hadn’t done an Xray…and I don’t think it’s related to her injury this
morning…but let me go check with one of my partners.”
She left the room and was gone for a
while. While she was away, Kayli wanted
to get down and walk. I decided to see
what would happen and, sure enough, miraculously, she was walking WAY
better. She was still only walking on
the toes of her left foot but definitely wasn’t showing signs of intense pain.
When the doctor came back in she still looked
puzzled. “Well, two other doctors looked
at it with me and none of us can really figure out what’s going on. But there’s definitely no huge noticeable
breaks or fractures. If I was being
really conservative, I’d send you to Children’s for more in-depth Xrays, but we
could just wait and see. You’ll get a
call in the next couple of days if there’s more follow-up needed.” When I told her about Kayli walking around
better she wanted to take another look at her.
Once again, Kayli walked like it wasn’t a big
deal; she definitely had a limp, but it was nothing like before! She even let the doctor squeeze and feel her
leg without even a grimace. In the end,
the doctor was just as befuddled as I was.
She guessed that maybe Kayli had pulled a muscle and the hardness she
felt was muscle spasms. I heard her tell
the nurse out in the hall, “Hmm! Yeah, that’s definitely not how I saw this
ending. I thought for sure we’d be
putting her in a cast.”
Then, as I sat in the room, putting Kayli’s
pants back on her, I realized something: So, what’s this about a cyst on her
bone? It’s just a total
coincidence? Like, I’m supposed to just
pretend that it isn’t there?! I stuck my
head out the door and asked the doctor pretty much that question. And she pretty much – still looking a little
confused – said, “Yep! It hasn’t caused any issues!”
Hmmm.
Alrighty then. Kayliana will turn
2 a week from today. I think, you know,
just out of curiosity, I might follow up with her pediatrician for her 2 year
check-up. “So, about this cyst on her
bone that we’re just pretending we never saw…so, that’s cool, huh? Right....?”
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