That Darn Finger

Today Ava had her appointment with the hand specialist at the U. I brought her previous 2 sets of x-rays, but they decided to take more, and were glad they did. Every x-ray looks different. This time it almost looked as if one of the pieces of bone had rotated. But after much examination and contemplation, the doctor decided that because she's so young, and it's already been a month, he'd like to leave it alone for now and check it again in a month. At this point waiting isn't going to do any more damage and may help us to know if surgery will be necessary or not. He said (as have all the other doctors) that in kids this young the bones heal so well, and the body can usually do more for the healing than a doctor can. He doesn't want to do surgery unless it's really needed, because it could just make things worse instead of better. It's possible that if it doesn't heal back together, she may lose some mobility in that end joint of her finger, which isn't the worse thing in the world. But if she shows signs of pain, we are to bring her back sooner. So he wants us to stop wrapping it and see how she does (if there is any pain, if she is using it normally, etc.) So hopefully it will just heal itself and she won't need any further treatment!