Time for Fixator removal...

Time seemed to go by fast and it was finally time to head back to Baltimore Maryland to have Kayla's fixator removed. If I remember correctly we left the house on May 30, 2012 to head to Maryland. We drove a little more than half way and found a hotel to spend the night. The next day we woke up and got back on the road and drove the rest of the way to Maryland. Once we got to Maryland we got settled in our room and prepared for Kayla's surgery the next day. The morning of the surgery I was nervous but excited at the same time. It didn't seem to take them as long this time to get Kayla prepped and get her into the Operating room. It also seemed like it didn't take no time for them to get done with the surgery. Finally Kayla's fixator was removed and she had her cast on. She had a Camouflage cast per her dads request. They called me back to the recovery room and since they would only let two people at a time back to see Kayla, my oldest daughter Jessica and I went back. Kayla was sleeping when we got back there so we just sat there and waited for her to wake up. A while later she was still sound asleep so I decided to go out and get Mike (my Husband) and let him come back and sit with Kayla a while. I was in the waiting room for a while before I decided to text my husband and see how Kayla was doing and he said she was awake and sitting up in the bed eating a popsicle. She seemed to be glad to have the fixator off but also was kinda uncomfortable with the cast at first. They finally released her from the hospital with a shoe to attach to the bottom of the cast because it was a walking cast. The Dr. Said she would probably have the cast on for about 4 weeks and he would then remove it and make it into a removable cast so we could put it on her when she was playing hard or when we think she needed it. Kayla wasn't real comfortable about walking on the cast at first and it took her several days to adjust to it and get use to walking in it but when she did finally start walking on it you couldn't stop her. We finally left Baltimore and made it home and just took things day by day waiting for the day that we were supposed to come back for cast removal which was June 25, 2012. We had the appointment for cast removal before even leaving the hospital the day her fixator was removed.