It's Corrective

Our toddler is sporting a cast.  I dreaded it, thinking she would hate it.  She is the girl who freaks out if she gets a drop of oatmeal on her hand.  But I was wrong.  Addie doesn't mind her cast.  She hasn't fussed about it once.  She wore her first cast (she picked a purple one) for two weeks.  She marched right out of the doctor's office, waving and saying thank you.  I think she has realized she's cute because she really knows how to work it, cast or no cast.  


We are now on to the second cast for another two weeks.  This time around she picked a pink one with glitter.  She seems excited about the whole experience. 

It looks like she will have a third cast for a total of six weeks of casting.  This is to help with straightening her left foot which is c-shaped [a condition called Metatarsus Adductus]. This was a good diagnosis to hear because doctors initially wondered whether she had neurological problems. 

The cast attracts attention and people say: "Ohhhhhh, you hurt your foot?"  "What happened?  How did you get your owie?"  Addie obviously hears all this conversation and our answers to people because last night I was talking to her about the cast and Addie says to me: "It's corrective."  Me: "What?"  Addie: "It's CORRECTIVE.  It doesn't hurt."

This girl makes me smile every day.