OH YUCK!!!!! The inevitable just happened!

Yep, that's right it happened! It was only a matter of time. I caught the first few just in time, but then...... Sonya pooped in her cast! She must have had too much loose juice (aka pear juice) and fruit over the weekend while we were at a friends graduation party and her cousins 1st birthday party. Well, let me tell you it was bad.... real, real, real bad!!!! I tried my very best to clean it all out with baby wipes and I went through a whole tub full of them! Using a flashlight to see up in there, I saw that I didn't get it all! Oh crap! (Pun intended)

It's Sunday night of course... Sonya likes to break bones and wreck havoc only during the weekends when there is nobody in the doctor's offices' to consult with except for the on-calls who are apparently clueless! So I called over to duPont and got the on-call casting technician and was told that because the inside of Sonya's cast was gortex that I could flush her out with some water in the sink and then blow dry her with a hair dryer. He also said that she would most likely need to be recasted then once we were able to get an appointment. So I called up my mom to come over and help me out. Ian was working a double shift that night and the older girls were all hopped up on a sugar high! While I held Sonya over the kitchen sink my mom used the kitchen sink sprayer to hose Sonya's cast out. We only saw clear water come out.... Blowing her dry with a hair dryer was an unbelievably hard task. Sonya is absolutely completely frightened by the vacuum, so you can only imagine how much she freaked out when I came at her with a loud crazy air blowing machine! It took forever to get her mostly dry, but there were still wet spots that we couldn't reach. We used an arsenal of Swiffer dusters and paper towels to get it as dry as we could, but we couldn't get all the way through and down her fully casted left leg. All of this crazy activity made her super tired and she slept all night without any problems!

The next morning I called the doctor's office again and explained the situation and I was given an appointment at 1pm. I had to absolutely leave the hospital by 2:15pm to be home in time to get Zoe off the bus and I explained this to them. Ian would not be there for her since he was working. They assured me that I should be able to be in and out quickly. When we got there we waited for an hour in the waiting room! Akela was begging me the entire time for me to take her outside to their huge playground in front of the main entrance. We finally get called back into the casting room and we sat there waiting for the remaining 15 minutes I had left to spend there and still no sight of the doctor.

I finally got up and went over to the nurses station and told them that I was sorry but I would have to leave, that I could no longer wait because I had to drive and hour and 30 minutes to get back home for my 1st grade daughter Zoe who would be getting off the bus and nobody was home waiting for her. (In actuality I had my grandparents drive over to my house to wait for her just in case, but I still had to get back home soon to get them ready for ballet class.) The nurses asked me to go over the situation with them real quick and that maybe they could help me. I went over what had happened and told them that we hosed her out good, but we were concerned about water being trapped inside and causing a skin rash or infection. The nurse asked "you actually hosed her out in the sink?" in a surprised tone. I replied "well yeah, that's what the on-call told me to do!" She then laughed and said "You are the first person I've heard of to actually do it! We are pretty much joking and exaggerating when we tell people that!" In my mind I'm thinking, you have got to be freaking kidding me! Why would you tell someone something like that if you don't mean it?! You are representing a doctor's office and answering a serious question on a weekend night to a worried parent and you dealt out false information?! Oh grrrr!!!! I reply "Well I went and did it, so now what?" The nurses took a good look at her around the edges of her cast and inside as best as they could and told me that "Her skin looks great!" and "The cast itself and the gortex inside is very porous and that the water would not only pour out the edges of the cast but out through the porous material of the cast itself." I was told to give her another 30 minutes or so of blow drying and watch for any rashes to pop up. I asked if she should be recasted and was told that they wouldn't do that with an OI kid and a broken femur. It was too dangerous to disturb her leg and possibly displace it again which would require another surgery.

I thanked them and then hauled butt home and pulled right on up with Zoe's bus unloading the kids at her bus stop! Sheesh! All of that probably could have been done over the phone, but now I know for next time! Everybody please keep us in your prayers that nothing crazy happens while we are on vacation this coming week in North Carolina! No diaper blow outs or more broken bones!

Here are some fun pic's!

Sonya now says "poo", "butt" and "heinie"!

"Oh, mom! I'm soooo embarrassed!"

"Just kidding! I love playing peek-a-boo with you!"

Happy Sonya!