All morning he told me that he didn't want to take his cast off. I kept explaining it to him and wouldn't hurt, and that the doctor was going to take a picture to see if he needed to put on another one. We had a lot of waiting to day so we played and took pictures.
And by the time the man who put the cast on came to take it off, he wasn't very nervous at all. It was loud and buzzy and it tickled Luke enough to make him laugh.
He cut up and down both sides.
And then he used a special tool to crack it open.
The Goretex lining was pretty stuck onto the cast so the man had to use his superman muscles to pull it apart.
Luke was pretty nervous about his leg once the cast was off. His joints were really stiff and it hurt to bend them. The doctor said it will take a couple of days before gets full range of motion back.
We went for an x-ray and the doctor said his bone has healed enough to for the cast to stay off.
For rest of the night and this morning he would protect his leg and asked to be carried everywhere.
We went swimming though today and that really loosened it up. He has been walking on it all evening. He is still walking with a stiff leg, the same way he used it with the cast on, but he can bend it a little better now. He still has to take it easy, No parks or jumping off of things for the next 4 weeks. Needless to say we will be doing a lot of swimming.
Hopefully he'll just get better everyday.
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