Sally wrote:
Thank you for posting your story. We are in week 4 of our nightmare. He is having horrible muscle spasms at night. They suspect electrolite imbalance is causing the spasms. The electrolite imbalance was caused by the enemas he had after getting impacted. He got impacted because of the pain meds. When his stomach distended from constipation, the cast was too tight & caused his intestines to shut down. They had to cut it off & recast him. His neck was out from the casting table & we had to take him to a chiropractor because he was in severe pain in his neck, but one adjustment & it was totally resolved. So we are still dealing with GI problems & he has to take laxitives to go & still has horrible muscle spasms. We get 4 week xrays tomorrow. Dr says if he sees enough new bone he will remove it at 4 weeks. He is 3 & his break isn’t as severe as your 4 year old’s was, so we are hoping for the best. He has both legs completely cast to the toes. We can’t deal with 2 more weeks of this. We are really at the end of our rope with the stress & all his suffering. Did I mention we have a baby who is 3 months old!
Oh my gosh Sally. I am so sorry; that is really an ordeal. We had a hard enough time with the nightmares; the muscle spasms and everything related sounds like a pretty rough go of it. I remember counting down weeks when we started, but I have to admit by the time we got down to 2 weeks or week and a half, I started counting down by days instead.
Do you have some outside help? Most of the time I didn’t want to leave him anywhere, with anyone, but I did have moments where it helped to either leave him with my husband and go for a walk for a while, or to ask a friend so that I could take our daughter for some alone time.
