isn't the hospital fun?

The last couple days we've had some interesting things happen here.  First, on Sunday I ended up at the local Urgent Care clinic as soon as they opened.  I was diagnosed with the flu and bronchitis, and given medications to take care of that (tomorrow is my last day of antibiotics).  So obviously, on Monday I didn't feel much like doing anything but I did anyway, and it turned out to be our most productive day of homeschool yet (and this includes the 4 years we homeschooled before the oldest 3 kids went to school part of this year).

Then on Tuesday we had our normal day, and just after finishing lessons for the night (we're late afternoon schoolers here, it works better for our lifestyle) Missa decided to get on the floor to wrestle with PJ.  He likes to climb on anyone on the floor, smacking them and bouncing on them while laughing and squealing.  Missa loves to wrestle with him, and he gets hysterical goofy when it is Missa who is doing the wrestling (I think she may be his favorite sister).  Anyway, Liddy and Kimmy decided that it looked fun, so they joined PJ in wrestling Missa.  One of them came down just right on her foot, and about 9 hours later the doctor at the emergency room told us that she had fractured a growth plate in her foot and put her into a shoe splint and referred us to an amazing orthopedist.  By the time I got home with her (and PJ along for the ride) it was 2:30am so she crashed on a sofa for the night after taking some Advil.

This morning was her first follow-up with the ortho, and he changed it from a shoe splint thing to a full boot (also known as a type of walking cast).  She's to wear it until her appointment in March, and rest and elevate it as much as she can (no running, jumping, stuff like that and NO sleeping on the top bunk).  He hopefully will clear her to not wear it at that appointment after the repeat x-rays to check how it is healing.

Which brings me to our fun picture of the day.  This is Missa showing that even with injury and not getting to bed at a decent hour, she can still do her schoolwork at home.

And this is what her foot looks like under that boot, I took it while we were waiting for the orthopedist to come look at it and tell us what to do.  Notice those fat little toes there and the discoloration?  My cell phone may not take the greatest pictures, but it does well enough to show off some of the swelling and bruising.

She obviously doesn't feel too hot, especially with just Tylenol for the pain.  But she's a trooper, and got a 100% on today's math test (Math-U-See Gamma lesson 4 test, tomorrow she'll do lesson 5's test)

And all of the family agrees, we all hope that Scott doesn't have to work too late tonight so that I can go to bed early to make up for the lack of sleep (we may have gotten in at 2:30 but I didn't fall asleep until after 4 from the adrenaline).  If this momma doesn't get enough sleep, she is a cranky pants and yells a lot.

Hopefully the rest of this week is uneventful, I don't think I could take much more excitement right now.