The following days

We turned Kayla's pin on her fixator for about a week. We had to do a full turn 3 times a day. We done lots of things to pass the time by, we took Kayla to the toy room at the Hackerman Patz house to play, we took her to her therapy appointments and we went shopping a couple of times and also went to visit my cousin who lives in Reisterstown Maryland about 20 minutes from the Hackerman Patz house. In a way it seemed like time was going by fast but then in another way it seemed like it was going slow, but I was getting homesick so I guess that is why at times it seemed to be going slow. It was finally time for her checkup with Dr. Standard to see how well her leg was doing and I was hoping that he would give us a good report and say that we could go home even though we were supposed to stay at least another week for Physical Therapy. We got to the Rubin Institute and got Kayla registered for her appointment and began the wait (there is always the wait) but it didn't seem like it took that long for them to come and get Kayla for x-rays. After the x-rays Kayla was put into a room and the Dr. came in to see her. He said her leg was doing really well and her Tibia was in the exact position he wanted it to be and he told us that we could stop turning the pin, and it was a good thing he told us that we could stop turning the pin because we had ran out of room on the pin to turn it. He said that new bone was already starting to form in the brake in her Tibi (they had to brake her tibia to straighten it out) I was so excited that things were going so well and that he said we could stop turning her pin. I asked him if he thought we could go home and he said he didn't see why we couldn't. I was ecstatic when he said we could go home. When we left the Dr's office we went straight to the HP house and started packing to go home. We had accumulated so much stuff during the time that we were there that we had to donate what food we had left to the HP house because there was just no room for it in the vehicle. We finally got everything packed up and got on the road. We had to stop in at my cousins house to take some bowls back to her that she let us borrow to microwave some food in and I also had to pick up my laptop computer that her husband was trying to fix. We said our goodbyes to my cousin (of course there was crying involved, there always is with us) and we got back on the road and made our way home. We were so anxious to get home that we decided to drive all the way through instead of stopping and spending the night in hotel a little over half way like we normally do and it took us somewhere around 11 hours to make it home. I was so worn out and so was everyone else but we managed to stop by my Mother in laws for a visit. We finally decided to go to end our visit with my mother in law and go home. When we got home we didn't even attempt to unload the vehicle because it was about 10 or 11 oclock at night if not later. If I recall correctly we went in the house and went straight to bed.