Update on Mallory!

For those who don't know yet, Mallory broke her leg right above her ankle. She had to have a "closed alignment" in the operating room by the orthopedic surgeon, which just means that he readjusted the bone without doing surgery on her. New xray machines allow for real time imaging of the bones and the doctors can adjust simple misalignments without having to cut you open now! Yeah for Mallory, that he was able to do it this way. It has been a tad bit over a week and she is finally not hurting as much. She is still having trouble with some swelling if she puts the leg down too much. She is also experiencing some pain when she moves the leg around or bumps it. She had an xray yesterday and the Physician's Assistant said things look fine. We go in for another xray next week again, I am assuming this will be a weekly thing until that cast comes off. Pray that the length of time in the full leg cast will be short, since it is so very heavy for her to have this cast all the way up to her thigh. Her spirits are good, she is currently keeping occupied by writing a story about her, her siblings and some of her cousins from Missouri and it is set in WWI, so she keeps asking me all these questions about WWI that I don't know! I'll have to get her some books to do research at the library I guess. So she is not back to "school" per se but I think she is covering reading, writing, and history pretty well on her own right now, so I'm leaving well enough alone. One good thing about this ordeal is that Daniel has figured out that Sarah is pretty fun to play with. They are playing with each other a lot now, which never happened before, he was always nice to her and took good care of her, as an older brother should, but Mallory was his playmate of choice! It is good to see them start to form a different kind of relationship, one that I hope lasts beyond this time of Mallory's recovery. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers I will try to keep updating here.