Bella fell Saturday afternoon :(
We were getting ready to go to a coaches get-together - car
was started & cooling. I had loaded the cooler and then came in for the kids.
Bella had tried to get herself from the couch to her wheelchair but it was
turned the wrong way & she lost her balance trying to turn her chair
around (of course she wasn't wearing her leg braces at the time). She twisted her foot and cannot bear weight on it now. We iced and elevated it over the weekend and then I took her in for X-rays
today. Fortunately there is no sign of a fracture on the X-ray but it seems the damage to her confidence has been done anyway.
This is so frustrating! I was just starting to get my fearless, swing-from-the-monkey bars, make up dances in your room (even if those dances are now done on knees or sitting), climbing the stairs alone (upright!), happy-go-lucky, honest-to-God Super Bella back. She has been doing so great for so many weeks and now she is scared to put weight on her foot. My mom asked me how I keep from screaming. I really don't know. I think I use the blog and Facebook as my way of screaming.
I pray that now that she knows her foot is not broken she will be able to get back to the progress she had made after a few days of rest.
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