Finally He's Off The Cast!!!!

This post is way overdue because of one thousand and one reasons and the number one on the list is... because I'm lazy.... :P  Jovan went for his last doctor's appointment on 23 August, which is almost 3 months from the day he broke his leg.  As usual, the doctor took off his cast and sent him off for x-ray, then back to the doctor's office to review the x-ray.  The result was very good!  The bones have grown properly and are now fused together. Though we could still see a crack where it fused together but the doctor assured us that it will be gone over time.  He also said that the bones will grow thicker as Jovan grows and if he ever take an x-ray when he turns adult, no one would be able to tell that he had broken his leg before.

Jovan's left leg is significantly thinner and more hairy (for some strange reason..) than his right, since he hadn't used it for 3 months.  The doctor mentioned that it'll take approximately two years for his left leg to catch up with the right leg and be as strong, since the muscles need time to be built up and strengthened.

The first two weeks after the cast came off, he was kinda afraid to use his left leg because it was so week. We told him to just take it easy and try his best to use it as much as he can but not to over exert it.  And being a good boy as he always has been, Jovan took daddy's advise to walk more.  Some days he would go for a walk when he came home from school.

Almost everybody in school knew what happened to him, so we didn't have to especially inform the teachers on what they should do.  Everybody wants him to take it easy, including his physical education teacher who came up with a series of exercises which Jovan can do to train up his legs.  Even though, he couldn't join in with the rest of the class, he knew that this was what he needed.

About two days ago, hubby and I went to the parent-teacher meeting in school and we talked to Jovan's physical education teacher to find out what he thinks about Jovan's situation.  He agreed with us that Jovan should continue a little longer with the resistance training to build up strength, even though Jovan thinks that he's good enough now.

Thankfully there isn't any complication with this injury.  Now I can only pray hard that all of them will grow up big and strong without any more accident, my old heart can't take too much of "excitement" like this....