The appointment is set to get the cast off — well, if everything looks okay. The next step will be a brace and some physical therapy-type exercises.
This is one of his friends signing it right after he got it. See how pretty and white it is at the top and around his fingers?
It doesn't look like that anymore. Dirty, dirty, dirty.
Some people said it would start to stink, but luckily, that hasn't happened. Since Biscuit couldn't get his cast wet, we've used hand sanitizer to clean his fingers really well. But the alcohol in the sanitizer makes his skin dry, so then we have to put lotion on it. It'll be nice when he can just wash it in the shower again.
And speaking of showers, it'll be nice when he can be in the shower all by himself. With his cast, he has to stand half under the water with his arm stuck up in the air while Jeff does most of the cleaning and washing and drying.
I'm not sure how long it will be before he can start practicing guitar and piano again. They both require a lot of finger and wrist movement. And I wonder what it will be like for him to write with his right hand again. His handwriting is pretty bad, so it won't look too much better than his left-handed writing!
He's had a bunch of people sign his cast, so we took some pictures of it this evening to help him remember it.
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