Four Part Harmony

Well, Anna and I took a trip to the bone doctor yesterday morning, and Anna came home with shoes on both feet for the first time in a month!

We weren’t quite sure what to expect. I knew they’d want to take some x-rays, but wasn’t sure if they could take them with the cast on, or if it would have to come off. When we got there they ushered us right in and set to work removing the cast. I’d been hoping that there would be some sort of heavy duty snips that would cut the thing off but no luck. The nurse brought the saw over and thought it’d be a good idea to just fire it right up so Anna could hear what it would sound like.

This was not such a good idea.

It was a little traumatic, but somehow we managed to get through the cast cutting process and get the x-rays taken. The x-rays looked pretty good, and so they sent us home with a clean bill of health.

Anna’s foot is a little bruised, and she’s still only taking very tentative steps on it, but we’re very happy to be further down the road to recovery.

Here’s a couple recent photos, since we don’t really have any from yesterday.

Anna with her friends Violet and Wren at the Rhododendron Garden. I love this picture.

Magnolias in bloom at the Rhododendron Garden.

This is a little violet that sprang up in a crack in our concrete front step. It seems like it bloomed over a month ago, and is still going strong. Surely there’s a great metaphor to be made here that would really wrap this post up in a tidy package. Something about tenacity and perseverance in the face of adversity, or the strength inherent in something so seemingly fragile…

But it’s also just a neat picture.