I got, I got, I got FIVE Fingers!

Today Bethany got her cast off, 4 weeks post surgery on her hand. The poor girl is so scared of doctors. Even though we've been telling her about the cast coming off for quite a while, when we talked about it last night, she had a total meltdown, and said she wanted to keep the cast forever.

This morning she figured out where we were going when we were halfway to Shriners and the crying and wailing began. It continued up in the clinic and they took us back the the exam room really quickly since she was upsetting all the other kids in the waiting room.

In the cast room, she continued to sob and scream, but she was so very brave. Even though it didn't hurt, the saw and the scissors were scary. The cast person, Destiny, was really nice and talked her through it. Destiny said she was so impressed as she'd never seen a child of this age steel herself to go through with the procedure when she was so obviously terrified

So after the cast came off and she soaked her hand to get some of the really gross dead skin, etc off, she suddenly remembered why she had had the surgery in the first place. She marched all the way down the long hallway to the exam room singing "I got, I got, I got FIVE fingers!!!" She wouldn't let the doctor even look at her hand until she showed him she could count to 5 on it. The doctor said he is happy with the results. It's all wrapped up again so I didn't get much of a chance to see it yet, but having 5 fingers is a very cool thing! She is such an amazing kid!