Jessica

Well, Jessica is officially done for the season in softball. On Wednesday April 1st, Jessica called to say that her coach thought she severely jammed or broke her pinkie finger. My first response was "HA-HA April Fools on mom!!!" Unfortunately Jessica did not think that was funny and neither did I when she got home from practice. We immediately went to Champaign to Convenient Care because not only could she not move her finger, she had lost feeling in her hand and it was ice cold all the way up to her elbow. We got up there and they took x-rays and told us that she had broken her finger and that we would need to see the orthopedic surgeon on Thursday and he would decide if it was bad enough to have surgery. This doctor was being nice and didn't want to frighten Jessica until she saw the surgeon. We walked into our appt and the surgeon pulled out Jessica's x-rays and showed us that she had jammed her finger so bad that she broke off part of the bone that her knuckle joint rests in. So he was going to have us meet him next door at the surgery center and they were going to do surgery. Her surgery was about 1 hour long and she did great. She had a bone graph done. They took a piece of plastic and screwed it in to replace the bone she shattered. So she will permanently have a small screw in her finger. Her hand is casted for 2 weeks and then we go back to have her stitches removed. He is then going to recast for another 2 weeks and then she will have physical therapy to start moving her pinkie again. So she is going to stay on the softball team and be a cheerleader for them. But she will not be able to actually play the rest of the season.