Annie's Arm Update

I should have posted this earlier in the day since it was our big thing today.

Annie got her pins out! Like most things in life the anticipation leading up to it was 1000X's worse than the actual event. This morning I had to literally carry her to the car screaming because she didn't want to go. The poor thing hadn't slept well the last few nights because she was so "nervous" as she would tell us. And a couple of times a day for the last 4 or 5 days she has had meltdowns where she sobs over the pins being removed. We tried to pass along all the positive things we had heard from different people who had pins removed. She truly has been a trooper through this whole experience so we totally understood and sympathized with her being scared.

Once we got to the doctors she did great. She was a little panicky because John was running a few minutes behind us but once Daddy was there it was all right. She did cry a little when the Dr. started to pull out the pins but once John told her they were all done she was fine! The actual scar from the surgery looked beautiful (if that is possible but being one with lots of scars I can honestly say it looked really good) the Dr. did a great job during surgery. Her arm is healing up beautifully and she will be in this cast for another month.

She was so excited to pick new colors for her cast. I will take a picture in the morning but her cast is purple with white stripes - that glow in the dark & blue glitter. She gets stopped constantly by people telling her how neat & cool her cast is.

We are just glad that everything is healing fast and correctly and that she isn't in any pain!