Ringo update and week 25 photos

Last week Tuesday, Ringo went to the vet for his bi-weekly cast change. He had an infection between his toes from no air being able to get in. They treated the infection and re-set the cast, this time with a gap at the toe so that air could flow. However, in the following two days, Ringo did nothing but cry and whine. The cast, frankly, looked too tight and he was irritated. I called and spoke with the vet, and he gave me some anti-inflammatory, anti-itch medicine for Ringo. But, by Friday morning, Ringo still wasn't happy. So, I took him back to the vet and they took the cast off, took x-rays, and re-set the cast. (Of course, I cried in the vet's office and said I just wanted them to make him feel better.) This time, there was another infection at the top of his leg (the earlier one in his toes was healed). Also, we learned from the x-rays that Ringo's bone was crushed into four pieces, not just snapped with an even break as we had previously thought. (The x-ray from the top shows just one break, but an x-ray from the side showed that there are four breaks--three in the last metacarpal and one in the second-to-last.) So, Ringo has his fourth cast on, which is a little shorter so that the latest infection is exposed to air and we can treat it. In two weeks, the vet will reassess, but he thinks it will probably be four more weeks until the cast comes off for good. Poor little Ringo.



On to other topics, I have totally given up sleeping on my stomach (as if I could now!). So, to prevent myself from sleeping on my back, which is a no-no, and to be a little more comfortable in bed, Nicholas and I have devised this fort: a king pillow on either side of me so that I can prop up my knee and my belly. I used to sleep with one flat pillow on my stomach. Look how high-maintenance I have become!





And for the belly pictures... The bottom one was the one from 15 weeks and the one on top is from today at 25 weeks. Ten weeks makes a big difference! Wow! Baby continues to kick and squirm, I am getting that dark line on my skin from my belly button down, and I have switched from reading aloud "Little House on the Prairie" to "Emma" because I decided that I needed to be entertained, too!