On Monday, Ava went in for a follow-up x-ray of her broken finger. The cut is looking great, but to me the finger still looks wrong. Unfortunately the x-rays confirmed this. They look worse than the initial x-rays. She goes in Monday of next week to see a specialist at the U of U.
I tried to scan the x-rays to show you, but even with help from Photoshop you couldn't see it. So here's a simple illustration of what it looks like.
Even to an untrained eye like mine, you can see a visible gap where the bone should be fusing back together. I have no idea what they might do to fix this. Do they make pins that small? The pins that were in Ryan's elbow were surprisingly huge.
Ava is really good with the bandages though. When she's wrapped up, she just uses her hands like nothing's ever happened. But if I take off the bandages (for a bath, or to change the dressings) she holds that hand up and away like it's diseased, and doesn't use it at all.
We are praying for a miraculous healing, and that she won't have to have surgery.
