Six weeks already

It has been six weeks sense Marissa broke her leg. She has had a long hard time. She is a funny child and has made the best of the broken leg. I think her teacher will be glad when this is all over she has been very kind. I also think Marissa is at her most daring at school and her teacher has been very nervous that she would get hurt again at school. She updates me on Marissa's condition. The teacher is always asking Marissa should you be doing that? Like putting wood chips down her cast, walking without crutches, playing tag. She said yesterday they didn't have time for recess so she had the children run to a tree and back instead. The teacher told Marissa she didn't have to but Marissa did it on her crutches and beat several kids.

Yesterday we went to the doctors office and got Marissa's 3rd and most colorful cast off. The Dr. office know her by name and all the staff are very kind. Even if the nurses are not working with our Dr. they come in and say hi. Yesterday the plan was to get the cast off. The problem was we took off the last cast only 2 weeks ago because it was to tight and it was a struggle to get it off and Marissa was no a very good patient. I think it scared the Dr. This time he sent in a medical assistant to take it off. Her name was Jenni and Marissa likes her she has been at all the appointments taking X-rays and helping out. Marissa was so scarred from the last cast being taken off that she started crying right way. When Marissa gets scared she gets bossier. She was telling everyone what to do what to cut how to cut when to crack the cast. It took four of us to hold her down and she was still kicking and screaming. She then started to tell Poor Jenni that She was a terrible cutter and that Dr. Slack was much better at cracking the cast. About this time Dr. Slack got tired of all the screaming(or he worked up the nerve to face this 5 year old) Marissa was happy to see him for a second until he started cutting. The nice think about Dr. Slack is he just moved as fast as he could and got it off. The yelling and bossing around ended as the cast came off.

They took another Xray and poor Jenni had to do it. She looked like she was about to cry so I tried to make her feel better by telling her the mean things Marissa said about Dr. Slack after she left while he was cutting off the cast. The staff still loves her you can tell by the treats each one gives her when we visit. I think they want me to take her somewhere else if she breaks a bone again.